Ana Hevesi has stewarded some of the largest technical communities on the internet, acquired plenty of scars, and figured out how to reliably build networks of developers who champion an organization while minimizing risks and downsides. She may be known for overhauling Stack Overflow’s game mechanics, running go-to-market (GTM) for the first Node.js hosting platform, or creating the community-to-product feedback pipeline for hardware designers at Shapeways.
Hazel Weakly spends her days building out teams of humans as well as the systems and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. Hazel currently serves as a Director on the board of the Haskell Foundation, as a Fellow of the Nivenly Foundation, and is fondly known as the Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm (a popular Mastodon instance). She also created the first official Haskell “setup” Github Action and helped turn it into an active community-maintained project. She enjoys traveling to speak at conferences, appearing on podcasts, mentoring others, and sharing what she’s learned with the world.
Laura Tacho is an expert in developer experience and measuring the efficiency of engineering organizations. She currently works on developer experience at AWS, and was previously the CTO of DX, where she led the company’s research and advisory practices, helping engineering leaders invest in devex, platform tooling, and AI. Laura’s been working on developer tools for 15 years, including building out some of the first developer tools for the Docker ecosystem, and then on CI/CD and automation tools. In 2021, she started her own executive advisory practice.
Adrian Cockcroft is a technology strategy advisor and partner at OrionX.net (ex Amazon Sustainability, AWS, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun Microsystems, CCL).
Twenty years ago Sue Smith took a free computer science course in a desperate bid to escape a decade of low paid service jobs, and discovered she was quite good at writing code. This had such a life-changing effect that she focused the rest of her career on enabling people to learn skills that might in turn connect them to similar opportunities.
Leading education strategy at Postman and then developer experience at community platform Glitch, Sue has developed a niche for creating experiences that support learning.
Danilo Campos works at Posthog doing AI stuff. He developed an early fascination with the strategic landscape of technology, seeing the rise of microprocessors as a high-stakes “chess game” played by the architects of the future. This lifelong obsession, fueled by everything from industry legal sagas to online flamewars, formed the foundation of his career. He spent time in Silicon Valley, building software at the height of the last technology cycle, and has since focused on demystifying computing through education.
Matt LeMay is a product leader, consultant, and author of the newly released book Impact-first Product Teams. He empowers product managers, teams, and organizations to maximize their impact on business-critical revenue and growth goals by streamlining processes, simplifying strategies, and focusing on the work that matters most.
Matt’s decade-plus career in product has included acquisitions by Google and Intuit, strategic advising to Spotify, and building out product teams for early-stage startups now valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Matt is the creator of the One Page / One Hour Pledge, a commitment to minimize busywork and maximize collaboration
Chad Metcalfe is CEO of Continue. Previously head of strategy at Daytona, he also worked at Arch Rock, Cloudera, WibiData, Puppet, Docker, and Gitpod. His career, marked by versatility, has spanned software engineering, sales leadership, and forging strategic alliances.
Adam Zimman is a co-author of Progressive Delivery, a technologist, and a parent who believes that the most important systems we maintain are the ones in our own communities. They are currently exploring the intersection of responsible building of technology and the messy, beautiful craft of raising gender-diverse humans.
Heidi Waterhouse is a co-author of Progressive Delivery. spent a couple of decades as a technical writer at Microsoft, Dell Software, LaunchDarkly, and many, many startups, learning to communicate with and for developers. She coauthored Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing. She is passionate about storytelling, finding business value, and the ROI of laptop stickers. When she’s not helping craft startup messaging, you can find her in her sewing room listening to a book. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ashley Rolfmore is Head of Customer Experience at Cordel, where she specializes in high-stakes engineering data systems for organizations like Network Rail and TfL. With a background spanning health tech and cybersecurity, Ashley focuses on the “unglamorous” problems—data quality, user trust, and legacy integration—ensuring technical systems are operationally useful rather than just technically accurate. Based in Portugal, she spends her time bridging the gap between complex data workflows and the human beings who rely on them for safety-critical decisions.
Holly Cummins is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the IBM Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Over her career, Holly has been a full-stack Javascript developer, a build architect, a client-facing consultant, and a JVM performance engineer. Holly has led projects to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). She gets worked up about sustainability, technical empathy, extreme programming, the importance of proper testing, and automating all the things.
Sanne Grinovero is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and a foundational figure in the Java ecosystem. As the lead of the Hibernate project for over a decade and a founding R&D engineer of Quarkus, Sanne specializes in solving complex performance and concurrency challenges. His work focuses on optimizing data access, scalability, and distributed systems, with significant contributions to Apache Lucene, Elasticsearch, and GraalVM. Now based in London after a global career spanning Europe and South America.
Daniel Roe leads the Nuxt core team. Previously, he was CTO of a SaaS startup and founder of a creative agency focusing on clarity of vision and message.
He is part of the team at Vercel where he is employed to work full-time on Nuxt.
His open source work has a focus in the Vue.js and Nuxt ecosystems, but extends across the broader JavaScript ecosystem. He created npmx.dev, a fast, modern browser for the npm registry, and is a core contributor to Nitro. He has also built type-safe developer tools like magic-regexp, web performance libraries like fontaine and beasties, and community utilities like page-speed.dev. He’s a keynote speaker at conferences around the world, particularly around frontend, web performance, serverless and software architecture.
Monki Gras 