Coffee and Open Source

Mark is a technology executive with a passion for building new businesses by focusing on developing the ecosystems around them, most recently founding the OpenStack open source cloud platform and leading the Marketing & Business Development efforts to make OpenStack the ubiquitous cloud platform. Be sure to follow Mark on Social Media  https://twitter.com/sparkycollier  To learn more...

Mislav is the Product Manager for the GitHub Cli at GitHub. He currently lives in the Netherlands.  Be sure to follow Mislav on Social Media  https://twitter.com/mislav  https://github.com/mislav  To learn more about GitHub CLI, be sure to checkout the official site and GitHub Repo   https://cli.github.com/  https://github.com/cli/cli

Roshan is the creator of @1stContribution

Matt is a software engineer on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft

Jeffrey T. Fritz – or simply “Fritz” is a Program Manager for Microsoft on the ASP.NET and .NET Community Outreach teams.

Kayla is a program manager at Microsoft. Her current projects include Windows Terminal , Windows Console, and Cascadia Code .

Jeff is a technical advisor, an executive consultant, and an attorney. As a solution architect on the Multicloud team at World Wide Technology—and with his unique experiences that combine tech and business—he maintains a passion for solving problems with inspired solutions, improving life through technology. A dedicated member of the developer community, Jeff has been a director of the .NET Founda...

Cam Soper is a .NET content developer at Microsoft. He is a Geek, gamer, musician, speaker. His interests include Home automation, robot BBQ, and he is a 3D printer enthusiast.

Shaun Walker has 25+ years professional experience in architecting and implementing enterprise software solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the original creator of Oqtane and DotNetNuke , web application frameworks which have cultivated the largest and most successful Open Source community projects native to the Microsoft platform. He was one of the original founders of DNN Co...

Hayden Barnes is a Senior Mgr. for Windows, Docs & Internal DevOps at Rancher Labs. He is a Microsoft MVP and former Engineering Manager for Ubuntu on WSL & founder Pengwin Linux.  

Ian Lance Taylor has been writing free software since 1990. He is the main author of Taylor UUCP, the gold linker, and the Go frontend to GCC. He is a member of the GCC steering committee. He joined Google in 2006, and since 2008 has been working on the Go programming language.

Mordechai Zuber is a software developer based in Israel.

Jerome Hardaway is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and The Executive Developer of Vets Who Code. Having served in the Air Force as Security Forces then transitioned into software engineering, he is focused on helping underrepresented members in the veteran community learn and break into tech. He has received numerous awards and honors due to his work but the most rewarding part to him is e...

Noelle has been speaking professionally for 20+ years now and have given over 800 keynote presentations to audiences as large as 10,000. As an experienced speaker, Noelle and her team want to provide two key things for your next event… A great experience on stage — Noelle has presented to audiences both large and small in a variety of different settings and contexts. As a presenter, Noelle will us...

Claire Novotny is a Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft and a former Executive Director of the .NET Foundation . She is passionate about reducing friction in the development process and creating modern software solutions to solve complex business challenges. Prior to joining Microsoft, Claire was a Regional Director and MVP, with a major focus on the open source .NET ecosystem. She has b...