Andrzej Czarny is a Senior Software Engineer at Ocado Technology. His work is mostly focused on real time performance of warehouse control systems. He is involved in creating testing frameworks and Continuous Integrations for multiple teams. His main area of expertise is Java and concurrency.
Stojan Peshov is Java developer with more than 12 years experience in web and back-end development. He has worked on a wide range of projects and business domains using open source libraries and frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Magnolia CMS, IceFaces, Hessian, RobotFramework, AngularJS, etc. As such, he has tasted different flavors of Java: JSP, JSF, JPA, JTA, CDI, as well as Test Automation, ETL, HTML5, Javascript and Web Services.
Stefan started programming 6 years ago and quickly fell in love with web performance, new technologies, and automation.
He worked for several startups in Berlin and recently joined Contentful to tell the world how an API-first CMS can make you a bit happier.
He is also a curator of the web performance online resource Perf Tooling, organizer of the Web Performance Meetup Berlin, contributes to a variety of open source projects and enjoys sharing nerdy discoveries.
Pascal is a web developer by day and a passionate Rust enthusiast and evangelist by night.
Wajdi Ben Rabah is a computer engineer specializing in mobile technologies (native and hybrid) and parallel realities. He has published articles around these subjects either on blogs or in print magazines. He was also a speaker at many international events. His main goal is to push the digital world forward via contributions on open source projects or via training sessions, workshops, conferences and meetups.
Blanko Tadic is highly focused on business development and sales of IBM Bluemix Platform as a Service offering, including wide portfolio of cognitive Watson services, Big Data and predictive analytics services, API integration and security services, data platforms, cloud-native application design, development and publishing, scaleable cloud runtime platforms, internet of Things platform, Design Thinking methodology and prototyping and industry specific solutioning.
Principal expert developer at T-Systems. Over a decade experience mainly in Java Enterprise, but interested in dynamic languages in JVM and experimental features. Open source contributor, blogger. Bulgarian Java User Group co-lead. Frequent conference speaker. jPrime/jProfessionals conference organizer.
Doncho Minkov is one of the first trainers at Telerik Academy – a leading tech-ed organization in Bulgaria, grooming the next generation of digital builders. Throughout the years he has played a significant role in the continuous success of the Academy, helping the organization equip over 50K people with hands-on programming knowledge and in-demand digital skills. Doncho has over 10 years of experience in software development and IT trainings. The technologies he is currently most focused on include Java, Android, JavaScript and Node.js.
Andrew Lombardi is one of a new breed of businessmen: the enlightened entrepreneur. He has been writing code since he was a 5-year old, sitting at his dad’s knee at their Apple II computer. Having such a deep affinity for the computer model, it is no surprise that at the age of 17 he began to delve deeply into the inner workings of the human mind. He became a student of Neuro Linguistic Programming and other mind technologies, and then went on to study metaphysics. He is certified as an NLP Trainer, Master Hypnotherapist and Time Line Therapy practitioner.
Using all of his accumulated skills, at the age of 24, Andrew began his consulting business, Mystic Coders, LLC. Since the inception of Mystic in 2000, Andrew has been building the business and studying finance and economics as he stays on the cutting edge of computer technology.
With the advent of the always-on network and smartphone constantly by our sides it has become much more difficult to achieve a clear mind. Stop letting social media and the always-on network rob you of precious moments of a clear head. Learn how to extract joy from the real moments that exist online and not become a slave to the fantasy world of social media.
Gone are the days that required a developer to work with IT to provision a physical machine and add it to a rack. Learn how to write code that runs without a defined machine and only on demand. In this talk we’ll introduce many of the products provided by Amazon and deploy an API using Python to AWS Lambda without an EC2 machine or ECS instance.
Andrew Krug is a Security Engineer for Mozilla Corporation working on Cloud Security and Identity and Access Management. Krug also works as a Cloud Security consultant and started the ThreatResponse project a toolkit for Amazon Web Services first responders. Krug has been a speaker at Black Hat USA, DerbyCon, and BSides PDX.
