GOTO Experts: Tech Leaders, Innovators, and Thought Leaders

Simon Brown

Creator of the famous C4 model, author

Charles Humble

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate for Loft Labs

Sarah Wells

Independent Consultant, Author

Patrick Kua

Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Allen Holub

Software Architect, Agile Coach, Author

Barry O'Reilly

CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology

Maciej Jedrzejewski

Tech Agnostic Architect

Michael Gasch

Senior Product Manager at AWS for EventBridge

David Boyne

Founder EventCatalog, Developer Advocate, Speaker and Full stack developer

Emily Shea

Head of Application Integration Go-To-Market, AWS

Anahit Pogosova

Lead Cloud Software Engineer at Solita

Eric Johnson

Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

Gillian Armstrong

Senior Solutions Architect, Generative AI Solutions at AWS

Julian Wood

Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

Rita Sethi

Senior Solutions Architect - Financial Services at AWS

Luca Mezzalira

Author of "Building Micro-Frontends" and Principal Solutions Architect at AWS

Sarah Hamilton

Senior Engineer & AWS Community Builder

Sheen Brisals

AWS Serverless Hero, Engineering Leader, O'Reilly Author

Ben Ellerby

AWS Serverless Hero

James Beswick

Senior Manager, AWS Serverless Developer Advocacy

Troy Mcilvena

Head of Architecture at SEEK

Marty Pitt

Founder at Orbital

Kris Jenkins

Developer Advocate

Thomas Vitale

Software Architect, author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action", CNCF Ambassador, Oracle ACE Pro

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions

Unmesh Joshi

Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Author of "Patterns of Distributed Systems"

Alistair Cockburn

One of the “All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes”

Venkat Subramaniam

Award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Michael Feathers

Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

Kevlin Henney

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

Martin Fowler

Pioneer of various topics around object-oriented technology and agile methods

James Lewis

Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

Diana Montalion

Systems architecture, thinking and design

Dave Farley

Software Developer and Consultant, Founder of Continuous Delivery Ltd., Author

Michael Nygard

General Manager of Data at Nubank

Susanne Kaiser

Independent Tech Consultant

Rebecca Parsons

CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks

Nick Tune

Author of Architecture Modernization

Sam Newman

The Microservices Expert. Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

Eli Holderness

Developer Advocate & Professional Nerd

Oliver Drotbohm

Frameworks & Architecture in the Spring Team at VMware

Jessica Deen

Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

Evan Bottcher

Head of Data and Architecture at MYOB

Dylan Beattie

Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language

Jake Ginnivan

Principal Consultant at Arkahna

Jez Humble

SRE at Google Cloud, Lecturer at UC Berkeley

Frank Yu

Director of Engineering at Coinbase

Adam Tornhill

Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Tim Berglund

VP DevRel StarTree

Richard Feldman

Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”

Dean Wampler

Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.

Avdi Grimm

Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award

Francesco Cesarini

O'Reilly Author & Founder of Erlang Solutions

Jonas Bonér

Founder and CEO of Lightbend

Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Author of "Flexible, Reliable Software", Associate Professor at University of Aarhus

Eleanor Saitta

Consulting CISO and Security Architect

Nikhil Srinidhi

Passionate about sustainability and conscious design

Madeleine Malmsten

Advocate for functional programming

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate at Upbound

Whitney Lee

Has an insatiable appetite for all things Cloud

Bert Jan Schrijver

JavaOne Rockstar & Champion, NLJUG leader & CTO at OpenValue

Lars Hupel

Chief Evangelist at Giesecke+Devrient

Sander Hoogendoorn

CTO at iBood.com

Eoin Woods

Chief Engineer of Endava, co-author of three software architecture books

Hannes Lowette

Head of learning & development at Axxes and a passionate .NET developer

Stefan Tilkov

Co-founder & Principal Consultant at INNOQ

Joris Kuipers

Chief Technology Officer at Trifork Amsterdam

Nicki Watt

CEO/CTO at OpenCredo

Peter Sbarski

AWS Serverless Hero and Author of Serverless Architectures on AWS

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay

Adrian Cockcroft

Partner and Analyst, OrionX

Milen Dyankov

Developer Advocate at AxonIQ

Yan Cui

Toli Apostolidis

Engineering Practice Lead at Cinch

Marcia Villalba

Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

Robert Crowe

TensorFlow developer advocate at Google

Roy Osherove

Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing" and "Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams"

Eberhard Wolff

Prolific author of "Microservices: Flexible Software Architecture". Working for 15+ years as an architect & consultant

Denise Yu

Senior software engineer at GitHub

Lynn Langit

Cloud architect building serverless bioinformatics cloud data pipelines

Ken Mugrage

Principal technologist at ThoughtWorks and DevOps expert

Gojko Adzic

Award-winning author and software delivery consultant

Ulf Wiger

Erlang old-timer and opera singer (tenor)

Gail Murphy

VP Research & Innovation & Professor of CS at The University of British Columbia

Andrew Harmel-Law

Thomas Johnson

Kasper Nissen

Lead platform architect at Lunar

Eltjo R. Poort

The founder and owner of CGI’s agile architecture approach Responsive, Collaborative Digital Architecture (RCDA) and leads CGI’s community of architects

Robin Moffatt

Don't miss these talks from the top-rated speaker from Kafka Summit 2020

Allard Buijze

Creator of Axon Framework

Bernd Rücker

Co-founder & chief technologist at Camunda

Tod Golding

Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"

Artur Skowroński

Ken Gavranovic

Stefan Hofer

Requirements & DDD Expert at WPS & Co-Author of "Domain Storytelling"

Ajay Chankramath

Sean Alvarez

Wes Reisz

Nic Cheneweth

Sonya Natanzon

Eduardo da Silva

Independent Consultant on Sociotechnical Systems, Architecture, and Leadership modernization

Ashley Peacock

Staff Software Engineer & Author of "Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques"

Lee Atchison

Ben Evans

Vlad Khononov

Denis Rosa

Speaker, Developer Advocate at Couchbase

Ray Tsang

Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform

Yashvier Kosaraju

Product security expert at Twilio Inc.

Alex Ellis

Creator of OpenFaaS, CNCF Ambassador and Author

Margriet Groenendijk

Data Science & AI Developer Advocate for IBM

Niels Hallenberg

Enterprise Tech Lead at SimCorp

Thomas Hejlsberg

CTO, Senior Vice President at SimCorp

Jason Taylor

Solution Architect at SSW

Radek Simko

Software Engineer at HashiCorp

Steven van Beelen

Axon Framework Lead Developer

Ben Wilcock

Established Technology Blogger & Advisory Solution Architect in Cloud Application Transformation

Heidi Waterhouse

Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

Cedric Hurst

Principal & Lead Software Engineer at Spantree

Sandro Mancuso

Pioneer of Software Craftsmanship and co-founder of Codurance

Uwe Friedrichsen

CTO and Fellow of codecentric

Jan Janke

Deputy Leader of Business IT systems at CERN

Alberto Brandolini

Creator of EventStorming

Frans van Buul

Evangelist at AxonIQ

Dejan Mitrovic

Lead Software Engineer at Free2Move

Sascha Möllering

Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL

Kiki Carter

Developing large-scale distributed systems using Reactive Principles at Lightbend

Graham Brooks

Coding Architect, Coach, Manager & Change Agent at ThoughtWorks

Kenny Bastani

Developer Advocate at Pivotal

Kassandra Perch

Developer Advocate, IoT specialist, Maker

Jakub Pilimon

Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal

Alexander Topalov

Shipping Lead at Shopify

Zhenzhong Xu

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Erica Windisch

Founder of @IOpipes. Building tools for Serverless & AWS

Simon Eskildsen

Production Engineering Lead at Shopify

Jesper L. Andersen

Programming language geek at Erlang

Jeppe Cramon

Chief Architect at INPAY

Steven Borelli

Founder and CEO of Asteris

Rodrigue Schaefer

Head of Engineering at Zalando

Ken Sipe

Cloud Solution Architect at Mesosphere