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GOPHERCON
INDIA 2019
The fifth Go Conference in India
Park Regis, Goa | 18 - 19 Jan. 2019
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Speakers
We're looking for speakers who wish to give a talk at GopherCon India 2019. If you're interested kindly send your talk proposal today.
Ajey Gore
Ajey is the Group CTO of Go-Jek. With 17 years of experience in building core technology strategy across diverse domains, Ajey has helped several businesses through technology transformations at ThoughtWorks and CodeIgnition. Ajey is the founder of CodeIgnition and an active influencer in the technology community.
Arafat Khan
Arafat Khan is a software developer fascinated by the mysteries of programming and logic.
He loves experimenting and playing code and is particularly interested in Algorithms, Distributed Systems, and Machine Learning. He is the lead developer of Tensorflow Ruby and Dataviz for Golang.
When he isn't coding in front of his laptop he is hiking, kayaking, skating and doing all things outdoors.
Aravind KP
Aravind KP is a Software Engineer at Hashnode. He got into Go because he wanted to learn more about containers and it soon became his primary tool and companion. He loves OSS and you can find his code in many projects. At the moment, he is exploring the blockchain world and taking seasonal detours to OSS and some Kubernetes clusters. When AFK, you can find him on a basketball court or napping in his bed.
Aravind Putrevu
Aravind Putrevu is passionate about evangelising technology, meeting developers and helping in solving their problems. He is a backend developer and has seven years of development experience.
Currently he works at Elastic as Developer Advocate and looks after the Developer Relation function of India. Previously, He worked at McAfee Antivirus as a Sr. Software Engineer in Cloud Security Domain. He has deep interest in Search, Machine Learning, Security Incident Analysis and IoT tech. In his free time, he plays around Raspi or a Arduino.
Gaurav Agarwal
Gaurav Agarwal is a software engineer, trainer, consultant and speaker. He runs a consulting & training firm. He is building one product at a time and working with multiple languages at the same time. He is a co-organizer of Golang India - remote study group and Chennai Go Meetup. Apart from Go - he enjoys traveling, reading, exercising and trekking.
Jyotsna Gupta
Jyotsna Gupta is an Open Source Enthusiast, working as a Software Developer in CoffeeBeans Consulting LLP, Bangalore, India. She has gained interest and experience on Go while working on a recommendation engine at her current employer. She is a coder by profession and a Shuttler by passion. She has also been involved with Mozilla Community since 2015 and she volunteers to Mozilla in her free time as an Add-on Content Reviewer & Mozilla Representative (previously, a two-time Add-ons Featured Advisory Board Member & Judge of the worldwide contest 'Firefox Quantum Extension Challenge'). She is also a Firefox Add-ons Mentor and has published a privacy-themed add-on PrivateX. As an active contributor, her name is also listed in about:credits and the credits page of every browser ever shipped by Mozilla. She energizes herself by playing Badminton, TT, Carrom, Chess, and Basketball. She loves to eat fruits, bad at partying, Xanthophile, Minion-maniac, shoeaholic, neat-freak, Scorpio, prefers to spend most of the time in her room, else she feels to travel the world. If you don’t see her doing any of the above, then you’ll find probably find her sleeping and dreaming for hours, maybe days?
Karan Misra
Karan Misra is the CTO (and co-founder) of the Bangalore based eSports startup SoStronk. He has been in love with programming since he got his hands on his (read: his father’s) first computer and has never looked back ever since. He rediscovered programming when he came across the awesome Go Tutorial and feel in love with the language. Since then, he has been busy building his startup. He created the popular Go IoT framework EMBD.io, helped co-organise the first iteration of GopherConIndia and runs the Golang Bangalore meetup group. In his spare time, he enjoys talking about Go and a game of squash/Diablo 3/CSGO!
Karthic Rao
Karthic Rao is an entrepreneur, developer, musician, blogger and a passionate learner. With his significant core contributions to Caddy (Nginx alternative written in Go) and Minio ( Amazon S3 alternative written in Go) Karthic's primary tech expertise revolves around building high performance and cost effective infrastructure + analytical tools and pipelines. His expertise stems from his experience of working with startups across Silicon valley in the west to Singapore in the east. When not at work he might be found performing with Piano / Boxing / Trekking / on Motorcycle trips.
Matt Aimonetti
Originally a sound engineer, Matt Aimonetti became an internationally known software developer, technical writer and open source contributor. As CTO and Co-Founder of Splice, he found a way to mix his passions: software, music and entrepreneurship. Matt is based in Santa Monica, CA where he likes building robots with his daughter, playing with sound gear with his son and enjoying a good meal with his wife.
Maya Rosecrance
Maya is a Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Cloud Foundry, where she uses agile practices and golang to build parts of the Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry. She’s currently on the Garden team which handles creating and managing the containers that underpin all the apps run by the platform. Prior to Pivotal Cloudfoundry, Maya worked as a consultant on a variety of projects from health care apps to clean energy calculators.
Piyush Verma
Piyush Verma heads Site Reliability Engineering at TrustingSocial.com. In past life He created oogway.in, siminars.com among other things. He is an active open source contributor and transmits jokes over UDP.
Rajeev N Bharshetty
Rajeev Bharshetty is a Passionate Polyglot Programmer and a theoretical Computer Science Nerd. He is currently interested and focused on Distributed Systems, Security and Data. He is working on building reliability at scale on 300+ Micro-services at GO-JEK.
William Kennedy
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, 2017 and 2018.
Sponsors
GopherConIndia is organised by a community of passionate Indian Gophers on a volunteer-basis. We can't put on a great show without some great sponsors. Here is your chance to reach the decision makers and developers from hundreds of top companies. GopherCon India has a capacity of up to 350 attendees and there are sponsorship opportunities to fit any budget. Be part of the fourth Go conference in India and help us make history.
Platinum and Technology Sponsor
GO-JEK is a Super App. It’s one app for ordering food, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage and two dozen services. It is Indonesia’s first and fastest growing unicorn building an on-demand empire. In the last 36 months, the startup’s total order volumes has grown to 6600x and diversified into 18 verticals. The company runs the equivalent of three Indian unicorns rolled into one. GO-FOOD is one of the largest food delivery services in the world. 3 years since the mobile app launched, GO-JEK does more rides than India’s largest taxi-sharing service. GO-JEK Tech is the product development and training centre of GO-JEK. The tech team comprises of developers, data scientists, designers and product managers who work on product innovation, mining data and crafting consumer experiences. The average age of the team is 29 and it runs one of the largest JRuby, Java and Go clusters in Asia.
Gold Sponsor
Trusting Social is one of the strongest tech players in financial inclusion. We apply our algorithms to petabytes of data to identify credit worthiness of individuals, this while protecting their privacy through encrypted and anonymised data exchange on our platform. Our proprietary credit score that sits at the heart of our platform is proven to outperform the current state of the art (measured in terms of GINI score) and enable additional 40% of population getting access to credit. These are people who never had any kind of banking exposure earlier and now are accessible and visible, giving them a great chance at improving their lives. We are building a global credit marketplace with a vision to connect borrowers and lenders on all digital consumption channels. This platform aims to make lending and underwriting a completely digital and predictable workflow, enabling a launchpad for next generation of credit products. We love working with engineers and product managers with a track record of building awesome technology products!
Digital Sponsor
True to its name, it was an innate enthusiasm and passion for building web solutions in Ruby On Rails. that led to the establishment of Josh Software in 2007. With a belief that Programming is An Art, Josh Software has a unique organizational process focused to facilitate high performance, scalability and high-standard code quality. Josh Software believes that Go is the language of this decade and has made major forays in this direction. The hand picked Josh Software team of 65 regularly contributes back to the open source community.
Party Sponsor
Google Cloud ’s security model, world-scale infrastructure, and unique capability to innovate will help keep your organization secure and compliant.
Hoodies Sponsor
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Since its founding in 2012, there have been more than 350 million cumulative downloads of Elastic software. The Elastic community is 100,000 members strong. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Elastic is a distributed company with more than 1,000 Elasticians working in 30 countries. Learn more at elastic.co.
Lanyard Sponsor
Coupa 's Business Spend Management (BSM) platform provide customers with visibility and control into their business spends through Coupa’s integrated suite consisting of Procurement, Invoicing, Expenses, Sourcing, Inventory, Contract, Lifecycle Management, Budget and Analytics. Simply put, Coupa wants to apply the best information technology in the world to help companies spend money more efficiently and effectively. Coupa’s vision is being focused to be Comprehensive, Open, User-Centric, Perspective and Accelerated. Coupa leverages some of the industry leading technologies like RoR, ReactJS, GO, AWS, Azure to name a few. Some of Coupa’s solutions are highly dependent on cutting edge technologies like Machine Learning and AI for data classification.
Hand Band Sponsor
Kredaro An early stage startup focussed on Products and Services around Data driven SRE, High performance and Cost effective Analytics, ML/AI at Scale. Ping us at hello@kredaro.com.
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