GOPHERCON

Aditya Mukerjee

@chimeracoder

Aditya is an engineer at Stripe on the Risk team, based in New York City. He studied statistics at Columbia and computer science at Cornell, and has been writing Go professionally for the past four years. When not defending users against online fraudsters, he spends his free time playing German-style board games and listening to embarrassing music. He spoke at GopherConIndia 2016.

Aditya Sanghi

@aditya_sanghi1

Aditya has been working on building (from inception to release) scalable production systems facing high loads for the past two years in both Golang and JRuby as well as worked on the infra and automation/CI for these systems. He has been living in Bangalore for the past two years but has mostly been a nomad (changed 9 schools) thanks to his army background. He is also a big sports enthusiast and has been swimming at competitive state level.

Daniel Whitenack

@dwhitena

Daniel is a Ph.D. trained data scientist who is interested in helping Go become a "go to" language for data science/engineering. As a data scientist with Pachyderm (@pachydermIO), Daniel develops innovative, distributed data pipelines. These pipelines include predictive models, data visualizations, statistical analyses, and more. He enjoys contributing to the open source community, with projects like gophernotes, and teaching Ultimate Data Science classes with Ardan Labs (@ardanlabs).

Filippo Valsorda

Filippo Valsorda works on cryptography and systems engineering at Cloudflare. He’s been the main developer of the pure-Go Cloudflare DNS server, and wrote its DNSSEC implementation. He's now working on TLS 1.3 for the Cloudflare edge and upstream. He often writes about Go on the company and personal blog, talks about security and programming, and builds Go tools like gvt, the Heartbleed test and the whoami SSH server.

Francesc Campoy Flores

@francesc

Francesc Campoy Flores joined the Go team in 2012 as Developer Advocate after several years as a Python and C++ developer. His mission is to make Go useful and fun. He spoke at GopherConIndia 2015.

Ian Lewis

@ianmlewis

Ian is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform based Tokyo, Japan. Ian is a Python and Go developer who is passionate about developer communities. He previously co-founded PyCon JP, the largest Python event in Japan. Ian loves learning about how systems work end-to end and spends his time writing and deploying distributed web apps to his favorite container orchestrator (Kubernetes).

Kai Waehner

@kaiwaehner

Kai Wähner works as Technology Evangelist at TIBCO. Kai's main area of expertise lies within the fields of Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, Integration, SOA, Microservices, BPM, Cloud, Java EE and Enterprise Architecture Management. He is regular speaker at international IT conferences such as JavaOne or ApacheCon, writes articles for professional journals, and shares his experiences with new technologies on his blog.

Kamesh Balasubramanian

@EngineerKamesh

Kamesh Balasubramanian is the Founder and CEO of Wirecog, LLC. He is the inventor of Wireframe Cognition (Wirecog), an award-winning, patented technology that allows machines to understand wireframe designs and produce source code from them. He is an award-winning, professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery and an InfyMaker Award winner. He was recognized as a “Maker of Change” at the 2016 World Maker Faire in New York and, upon request, has demonstrated Wirecog at MIT.

Karthic Rao

@hackintoshrao

Karthic currently is working with Minio (an open source object storage server) as a developer. One of the early contributors for the Caddy project. Passionate about Music and contributing to open source projects. A Volunteer for Free Software Movement Karnataka, Pianist, Vocalist, Blogger and a crossfitter. Building performant large scale systems, Distributed systems, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are his technology interests. He spoke at GopherConIndia 2016.

Manish Rai Jain

@manishrjain

Manish is the founder and primary author of Dgraph. He got thrust into distributed systems right out of college, working on real-time web indexing system at Google, where he worked for 6.5 years. He led various projects to consolidate and serve all structured data including knowledge graph right behind web search. Implementing GTD and Zero Waste practices, Manish is into efficient and minimalist living. He loves cycling, swimming, and ultra-light traveling.

Matthew Campbell

@kanwisher

Matthew Campbell is a Microservices scalability expert at DigitalOcean where he builds the future of cloud services. He is writting a book called "Microservices in Go". He recently presented at GoLang UK, PromConf Berling, Surge India and blogs at kanwisher.com. Matthew was a founder of Errplane and Langfight. In the past he worked at Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Gucci, and Cartoon network. He spoke at GopherConIndia 2016.

Romin Irani

@iRomin

Romin Irani is a Principal Architect at Xoriant Solutions and has been programming as long as he can remember. His passion is to make developers succeed. He loves to read and write about technology, never missing an opportunity to write a hands-on tutorial. He blogs extensively at www.rominirani.com.

Shamsuddin Madhani

Being a former scientific computing and applied mathematics researcher, Shamsuddin enjoys solving performance challenges with better programming approaches over using more metal. He works at BlippAR solving problems of scalability and availability using distributed architectures. When not coding, he can be found on an island in South or Southeast Asia, diving and learning about oceanic creatures.

Shiju Varghese

@shijucv

Shiju Varghese is a Solutions Architect focused on building highly scalable cloud-native applications with a special interest in APIs, Microservices, containerized architecture, and distributed systems. He currently specializes in Go, Google Cloud and container technologies. He is an early adopter of Go programming language, and provides consulting and training for building scalable back-end systems and Microservices using Go ecosystem. He has been a mentor to various start-ups and enterprises for the technology transformation to Go. He worked extensively in C# and Node.js before adopting Go as the primary technology stack. He has authored the books “Web Development with Go” and “Go Recipes”. He spoke at GopherConIndia 2015. His GopherConIndia 2016 talk slides.

Takuya Ueda

@tenntenn

Takuya Ueda is a Go engineer for Souzoh, Inc. He is one of the organizers of the Go Conference in Japan. He works for the growth of the Go community in Japan. He also loves Gopher and drawing Gopher illustrations.

Tiffany Jernigan

@tiffanyfayj

Tiffany is a developer advocate at Amazon coding in Go on and evangelizing for EC2 Container Service (ECS). She previously consulted for Docker, was at Intel Corporation as a cloud software engineer in the Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) group, and is a graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology. After pursuing a career in electrical engineering, she decided to transition to software engineering. When Tiffany is not writing software or evangelizing, she is learning French, reading mystery novels, or spending time with family and friends. You can find her on twitter as @tiffanyfayj.

Vidyasagar Nallapati

@dumbjedi

Vidyasagar N is a software developer from Bangalore. He loves all the things mathematics, statistics, machine learning, developer tools, automation and anything that will make systems better and easier, so he has found that in architecting, building and running large scale distributed services. He has a great practical experience in building rock-solid data pipelines prior to EMC, he has done his B.Tech from IIT BHU and has studied analytics at IIM Bangalore. When Vidyasagar is not writing code, he can be found travelling, playing music and indulging in coffee.

William Kennedy

@goinggodotnet

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Studio in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity. He spoke at GopherConIndia 2015.