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Presentation: "Microservices Panel"

Time: Tuesday 17:10 - 18:00 / Location: Grand Ballroom A & B

Fred George, Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating MicroServices & Programmer Anarchy

Fred George

Biography: Fred George

Fred George is an industry consultant, and has been writing code for over 46 years in (by his count) over 70 languages. He has delivered projects and products across his career, and in the last decade alone, has worked in the US, India, China, and the UK.
He started ThoughtWorks University in Bangalore, India, based on a commercial programming training program he developed in the 90's. An early adopter of OO and Agile, Fred continues to impact the industry with his leading­?edge ideas, most recently advocating MicroS?ervice Architectures and flat team structures (under the moniker of Programmer Anarchy).
Oh, and he still writes code!

Twitter: @fgeorge52

Jessica Kerr, Polyglot Functional Developer

Jessica Kerr

Biography: Jessica Kerr

Jessica Kerr is a functional developer on the JVM. She enjoys Scala, Clojure, Elm, gin, and surprises. She recently joined Stripe, where she works remotely from St. Louis, MO. Her school-age daughters do not appreciate her hobbies, especially all the travel to speak at conferences across the US and Europe.

Twitter: @jessitron
Blog: blog.jessitron.com

Michael T. Nygard, Author of "Release It!" & GOTO Chicago Program Committee Member

Michael T. Nygard

Biography: Michael T. Nygard

Michael Nygard strives to raise the bar and ease the pain for developers across the country. He shares his passion and energy for improvement with everyone he meets, sometimes even with their permission. Living with systems in production taught Michael about the importance of operations and writing production-ready software. Highly-available, highly-scalable commerce systems are his forte.

Michael has written and co-authored several books, including "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" and the best seller "Release It!", a book about building software that survives the real world.

Blog: michaelnygard.com/blog
Book: Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
Twitter: @mtnygard

Rod Johnson, CEO of Atomist, Creator of Spring, Independent Investor, Author & Coder

Rod Johnson

Biography: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson is CEO of Atomist, and a coder, author and investor.  He is the creator of the Spring Framework and was co-founder and CEO of SpringSource. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware, he served as SVP, Application Platform at VMware.

He is the author of several popular and influential books on Java and Java EE, including "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" and "J2EE without EJB" (with Jürgen Hoeller).

He sits on the board of five prominent open source companies: Neo Technology, elastic, Typesafe, Meteor and Hazelcast.

Twitter: @springrod

 

Sam Newman, Author of "Building Microservices" & GOTO Chicago PC Member

Sam Newman

Biography: Sam Newman

 Sam Newman is a technologist at ThoughtWorks, where he currently splits his time between encouraging and sharing Innovation globally and working as the architect for internal systems. Sam is the author of "Building Microservices" from O'Reilly. He has worked with a variety of companies in multiple domains around the world, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. If you asked him what he does, he’d say ‘I work with people to build better software systems’. He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. While Java used to be his bread and butter, he also spends time with Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Clojure, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud systems. 
 
Twitter: @samnewman