IT Career Energizer

Guillermo Rauch is the CEO and co-founder of ZEIT, a San Francisco company whose mission is to make cloud computing as easy and accessible as mobile computing. Prior to ZEIT, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup. He’s also the creator of several popular Node.JS libraries.

Richard Warburton is the co-founder of Opsian.com and maintainer of the Artio FIX Engine.  He’s worked as a developer in different areas including Developer Tools, HFT and Network Protocols. Richard wrote the book “Java 8 Lambdas” for O’Reilly and is also an experienced conference speaker, having spoken at dozens of events and sat on conference committees for some of the biggest conferences in Europe and the USA.

Ruth Yakubu is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and founder of PoshBeauty.com. Ruth specializes in Java, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Data Platform and Cloud and has worked for companies such as Accenture, Warner Brothers and TicketMaster in software architectural design and programming. Ruth has also been a speaker at several conferences including Devoxx, DeveloperWeek and TechSummit.

Fernando Cejas is a Developer Advocate at IBM having previously worked at SoundCloud and at Tuenti. Over the past decade, Fernando has mainly worked as a Core Engineer and Tech Lead focused on Mobile Development. Fernando describes himself as a nerdy geek and a strong believer of sharing, which he does by speaking at conferences, participating in communities and through his blog.

Jono is a digital strategist, marketing technologist and full-stack developer who currently manages special projects at Yoast. He has nearly twenty years’ of experience in web development, SEO, analytics, brand and campaign strategy and much more. Jono has worked with startups, agencies and international brands to fix websites, implement growth strategies, prepare for the future and win markets.

Jasmine Greenaway is a Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft. She has been working as a .NET developer since late 2009 which has given her the opportunity to travel the world and make use of Visual Studio’s extensibility framework in an open source environment. Jasmine also teaches at a local community college and co-organises BrooklynJS.

Keith is currently a member of the Platform Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Previously he was an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and before that he worked on the Ultimate Geek Question at the Library of Congress. Keith’s underlying goal is to get good technology into the hands of good people to do great things.

Matt Raible is a Developer Advocate at Okta and a Web Architect for Raible Designs, striving to find the best solutions for developing web applications. He also writes a lot of technical blog posts on the Okta Developer Blog as well as articles for InfoQ. Matt is a fan and developer of the JHipster project and he develops and maintains the JHipster Mini-Book and the Ionic JHipster Module.

Joe is a Front End Engineer for Digital Air Strike in Scottsdale, Arizona. Before his current role, Joe had worked as a Digital Marketing Manager while he continued to learn how to code in the evenings and at weekends. Joe also creates video tutorials for egghead.io and helps to run a local meetup called Desert GraphQL.

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional director, Docker Captain and a long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework, Domain Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com is the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, the MSDN Magazine Data Points column and popular videos on Pluralsight.com.

Lauren Lee is a Technical Product Manager at Go Daddy where she gets to evangelize a platform team that optimizes the engineering process for developers. Lauren helps teams to adopt a framework that makes prioritizing Machine Learning, experimentation, personalization and mobile-first development simple.

Ali is a self-taught software engineer who has the job of teaching other people how to code at General Assembly DC’s Web Development Immersive program. Before that she was a software engineer at Optimus. Ali also blogs about code and her life as a developer.

Chris has worked as a lead developer on some of the largest web projects and is currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He is also the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Evangelism book as well as being a regular presenter at conferences.

Jennifer Bland is a Senior Software Engineer, Speaker, Author, host and Google Developers Expert. She is on the leadership team for Women Who Code Atlanta and she runs the websites in5days.tech and codeprep.io which provide technical training on JavaScript topics. Jennifer is also the host of the CodePrep podcast.

Jen Bunk is a career coach for tech managers, helping them to upgrade their teams, careers, paychecks and lives. Jen is also the host of the People Stack podcast, where she interviews authors, coaches and leaders of tech companies from around the world.