Dimitar is 30 years old hard worker with two kids at home. In the past 10 years he takes part as owner or Product Manager or products involving hardware & software development- Mobile payments, IoT, Home Automation, Industrial solutions and even house and office constructions. Dimitar is part of projects like Findy, HiGPS, S2our, Balkan Center, Passive Smart House and many others.
Irrepressible startup enthusiast, entrepreneur, lecturer, activist at the Programmer’s Club in Veliko Tarnovo. Started in 2013 the Tinusaur Project – an educational platform for learning electronics, robotics and programming. Co-founded in 2007 Interlecta, a product company with offices in Bulgaria and in US that develops products in the field of telemedicine.
Stefan, like most geeks, rejected the faith of his parents early in his childhood. Later in life, however, he missed the community support and sense of purpose that religious people enjoy – until he found Pastafarianism.
He converted to his new faith in 2009 and has spearheaded the Bulgarian branch of the church ever since. In 2016 Stefan and his now wife became the first couple in Bulgaria (and only 2nd in the world) to have a Pastafarian wedding ceremony, a rite they now recommend for everyone who finds the traditional church wedding boring and misogynistic.
Scott Meyers is one of the most influential names in C++. His books (e.g., Effective C++ and Effective Modern C++) are essential C++ reading, but his influence extends into other programming communities. His writings and lecturing have made him one of the most respected names in software development
Ryan Cuprak is an CPG & Retail, Formulation R&D Development Senior Manager at Dassault Systèmes, co-authored EJB in Action 2nd Edition from Manning and the NetBeans Certification Guide from McGrall-Hill. He is also president of the Connecticut Java Users Group since 2003. Ryan is a JavaOne Rockstar Presenter. At Dassault Systèmes he works on the ENOVIA Enginuity chemical formulation software and is involved in desktop and backend server development as well as client data migrations. Prior to joining DS, Ryan worked for a distributed computing company, TurboWorx, and also Eastman Kodak’s Molecular imaging Systems group, now part of Burker. Ryan earned a BS in computer science and biology from Loyola University Chicago.
Carlos Sanchez specializes in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including ApacheCON, JavaOne, Fosdem,… Involved in Open Source for more than ten years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Jenkins, Apache Maven, or Puppet. He works at CloudBees scaling the Jenkins platform.
Java Champion and Developer Advocate @okta with a passion for skiing, mtn biking, VWs, & good ?. Driving a ’66 21-window & a ’90 Syncro. Made in Montana.
Graham is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and WebSphere Applications Server Developer Advocacy Lead based at IBM’s R&D Laboratory in Hursley, UK. He takes a keen interest in emerging technologies and practices and in particular programming models. His past exploits include establishing and contributing to open source projects at PHP and Apache and participation in, and leading, industry standards at OASIS and the OSGi Alliance.
Cosmin Rentea is a software engineer and trainer. His main interest lies in using Big Data technologies for innovative solutions, and his expertise is mainly in scalable backends, JVM, and microservices areas. He has an active presence in Bucharest JUG, local conferences, and workshops. He contributed to Big Data systems for digital marketing, enterprise solutions for large retail companies, and to Java and Go open-source projects.
