Mapping The Journey

Yan Zhu is renowned security and privacy engineer. She is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Brave and a Technology Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  She is an open web standard author, technology speaker, and open source contributor. Some of her contributions include HTTPS Everywhere, Lets Encrypt, Secure drop, Privacy Badger.

Matt Mullenweg is an American online social media entrepreneur and founder of WordPress. He also founded Automattic and currently serving as CEO.

Damian Conway is a computer scientist, a member of the Perl community and the author of several books. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to CPAN and Perl 6 language design, and his Perl programming training courses as well. He has won the Larry Wall Award three times for CPAN contributions. He worked with Larry Wall on Perl6 design for more than a decade.

Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer for Kotlin, began his career at Borland, where he worked on language implementations for MDA support. After spending a few years as a college teacher, he joined JetBrains in 2010 to develop the Kotlin programming language. His goal is to make Kotlin a really good tool for industrial programmers.

Don Chamberlin holds a B.S. degree from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. For many years, he worked at Almaden Research Center, researching database languages and systems. He was a member of the System R research team that developed much of today’s relational database technology and, together with Ray Boyce, he designed the original SQL database language.

More recently, he was a member of the W3C Working Group on XML Query Languages and an editor of the XPath 2.0 and XQuery language specifications, which became W3C Recommendations in 2007. With Jonathan Robie and Dana Florescu, he designed the Quilt language, which became the basis for the design of XQuery.

He likes to teach and recently taught a Java programming class at University of California, Santa Cruz. For the last several years he has been a judge and problem contributor to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Rob Das co-founded Spunk and has served as Chief Architect since 2005. He also served as Vice President, member of the board of directors. Previously, Mr. Das has been a large-scale, distributed software architect and engineer for both early-stage ventures and large companies, including Avolent Inc., an application software provider, Lotus Development, a software company, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., a computer systems company. Mr. Das studied computer science at Indiana University.

Abhay Bhushan is one of the early pioneers of the internet. He's the inventor of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP);  an application layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite, and is responsible for transferring computer files between Internet hosts. He has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, the early versions of email protocols. He is currently chairman of Asquare Inc. and President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation.

Ryan Dahl is a Software Engineer working at Google Brain. He is the creator of Node.js, JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Currently, he is working on deep learning research projects. His focus is mostly on image-to-image transformations like colorization and super resolution. He has contributed to several open source projects including HTTP Parser, libuv.

John Kodumal is CTO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery platform. John was a development manager at Atlassian, where he led engineering for the Atlassian Marketplace.

Prior to that he was an architect at Coverity, where he worked on static and dynamic analysis algorithms.

He has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in programming languages and type systems, and a BS from Harvey Mudd College.