Coffee and Open Source

Suz Hinton is a senior software developer and open source maintainer who has been working in software for over 15 years. She currently works on developer tools and API experience at Stripe. Suz is a strong advocate for privacy, security, accessibility, and prioritizing the user experience in everything she does.  In her spare time, she enjoys maintaining OSS, creating 3D artworks, messing with hardware / IoT, and reading books.   You can follow Suz on Social Media  https://twitter.com/noopkat  https://github.com/noopkat

Nitya has spent over two decades in tech spanning research, academic, startups, communities, and now advocacy. She is the creator of SketchTheDocs, a visualization guide for technology concepts Be sure to follow Nitya on Social Media  https://twitter.com/nitya

Kat Cosgrove is a Developer Advocate, a CNCF Ambassador, and an actual cyborg. Her professional background has run the gamut from bartender, to video store clerk, to teacher, to software developer. She credits this wide-ranging experience for her success as a speaker, developer, and advocate. Her specialty is approachable 101-level content for junior developers or anyone else who considers themselves a newbie, with a particular focus on DevOps. Be sure to follow Kat on Social Media  https://twitter.com/Dixie3Flatline

Den is an engineer who is currently working on helping scale the developer relations organization as a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. He previously helped build the cloud at AWS, was the first product manager on docs.microsoft.com, and helped deliver the groups feature in Microsoft Outlook. Be sure to follow Den on Social Media  https://twitter.com/DennisCode

Sam Smith is a Customer Success Architect at GitHub, where he helps customers accelerate their DevOps journeys. He is primarily interested in developer productivity with DevOps and GitHub. He is also interested in .NET, Azure PaaS, and game development with Unity3d. Be sure to follow Sam on Social Media https://twitter.com/samsmithnz

Brian Douglas is a Developer Advocate at GitHub where he works on increasing use of the GitHub’s platform specific features (Ask him about GitHub Actions!) through technical content distributed on the internet. In addition to that, Brian has a passion open source and loves mentoring new contributors. Be sure to follow Brian on Social Media  https://twitter.com/bdougieYO

Jeff Wilcox is a software engineer at Microsoft, currently working in the Open Source Programs Office. Jeff specializes in cross-platform software development and helping Microsoft better embrace open source technologies at scale. Previously, Jeff worked as an architect and development manager on the Azure team, as well as all the core Microsoft developer platforms spanning desktop and browser client to the phone and server-side apps. Be sure to follow Jeff on Social Media  https://twitter.com/jeffwilcox​

Matthias is a passionate C# developer and likes to talk about build automation, productivity, testing, and tooling in general. Much of his spare time he devotes to his very own open source projects, including NUKE. He is working at JetBrains as developer advocate in the .NET department. That includes showing how awesome Rider and ReSharper are to work with. However, he is also very interested in everything around TeamCity and Kotlin. Be sure to follow Matt on Social Media  https://twitter.com/matkoch87​

Jen is a Google Developer Expert and a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft with over 20 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile apps. She is a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for hardware hacking, mobile apps, Vue.js, machine learning and discovering new things every day. She is also the founder of Front-End Foxes, an international initiative and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to help women learn front-end technologies. Be sure to follow Jen on Social Media  https://twitter.com/jenlooper ​

Jeff is currently an Alexa Evangelist role for Amazon, and is the author of Migrating to Windows Phone, and several "31 Days..." series on his website covering Windows Phone and Windows 8 development. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference.  Be sure to follow Jeff on Social Media  https://twitter.com/jeffblankenburg​  http://twitch.tv/jeffblankenburg  http://github.com/jeffblankenburg  Also check out Jeff's Blog!  https://blankenblog.com/