Git Merge 2018 - Barcelona

Matt is a technical documentation nerd turned trainer with experience in laboratory information systems, IT security certifications, payment authentication platforms, and GitHub. He loves helping people work smarter.

Neha Batra is the GitHub Desktop Engineering Manager who, many years ago, was an energy consultant and quit to teach herself programming because “it was time.” She holds a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and enjoys foodie adventures, meticulously documenting her trip itineraries, snapchatting, and pronouncing GIFs how it should be: jiffs. If you want to hear her ramble on a topic, ask her about how agile xp fits into the “real world” or her newfound love for static typing.

Katrina is a software engineer at GitHub, where she works on Atom, GitHub’s free and open source text editor. Formerly a medical device engineer, Katrina found her passion in building software — specifically building awesome software to better facilitate building more awesome software. She’s a lover of elegant abstractions, all things meta, and tools and tricks that improve the development process. When Katrina’s not using Atom to hack on Atom, she’s often working to empower other engineers through teaching, mentoring, or organizing events for Bay Area women in tech.

Johan Abildskov is a Continuous Delivery consultant with Praqma. He helps companies get better at automation, continuous delivery and most importantly Git. Johan is an experienced Git teacher and takes pride in the success of others.

With a background in creative arts and software development curriculum, Briana collaborates with teams and individuals working with the visionary tools available through Git and GitHub. Through a positive and energetic approach, she helps others achieve their own exciting new ventures through the use of these innovative technologies.

Brett Smith is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Software Freedom Conservancy, working to build the organization’s technical infrastructure. Over the years he’s held a variety of advocacy and technical roles in free software, working at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Free Software Foundation.

Diane Hosfelt is an engineer at Mozilla Research working on the Servo project. She studied at Johns Hopkins University, where she completed a Master's thesis on applications of machine learning to cryptography. After a brief stint working for the US Department of Defense, she joined the Servo team to explore applications and advancements available when using Rust for cryptography related projects.

Carlos has been working with or on Git for the past eight years. He is currently in the Git Infrastructure team at GitHub helping keep the Git data safe and available.

Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services, where he helps ensure that people are successful using Git in VSTS. Prior to becoming a Program Manager, he was a Software Engineer building version control tools at GitHub, Microsoft, and SourceGear. He's a co-maintainer of the libgit2 project and the host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.

Stephen Hathaway is an experience designer at Effective Inc. in Denver, CO where he brings 4+ years of experience to his current role. He strives to build unified user experiences across a variety of mediums by infusing design with core development principles. When he's not delighting users, you can find him on his bike, playing in Colorado's mountains, or holing up in coffee shops to read or write code.

William is a technical marketer at GitLab who’s been crafting both code and copy since the late 90’s. Prior to joining GitLab, William worked in product marketing at Twilio and Digium. Outside of work, you can find William cooking, skateboarding, and playing video games with his wife and three children.

Ashley lives in Durham, NC and is an Application Engineer at GitHub. She enjoys helping others learn to code and is the lead organizer for RailsBridge Triangle and a mentor for Code the Dream, an organization that helps minority and immigrant youth break into tech. Her favorite programming languages are Ruby and Elixir. In her free time she enjoys cycling, amateur furniture building, and photography.

Andrey is a long time Continuous Delivery enthusiast and public speaker passionate about software development processes automation.During the years, Andrey has worked as a software developer, build and release engineer, SRE, architect for Continuous Integration and Delivery infrastructure. Currently, Andrey is providing consulting services worldwide and building a company for likeminded location independent automation professionals.

Grant is a software engineer for Atlassian Bitbucket in San Francisco, California. He's previously worked on problems ranging from analyzing engineered tissue viability to filtering spam in video games, and currently alternates between breaking and fixing infrastructure used by millions of customers

Pablo has been in version control for the last 13 years, creating products like Plastic SCM, code-aware merge tools and then the gmaster Git client. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from University of Valladolid. When not coding he loves to ride sportbikes.

Derrick Stolee is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. He previously worked the Git server for Visual Studio Team Services and now applies that knowledge to speed up the Git client, especially for very large repositories.

Johannes Schindelin maintains Git for Windows. He used to be a number theorist, a geneticist and a scientific image processing expert. He now works at Microsoft, spending most of his time trying to improve Git for Windows’ user experience.