| # Gerrit User Summit 2017 - Speakers |
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| ### Arnab Banerjee - Google {#arnabb} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabunfolded) |
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| Arnab Banerjee is a User Experience designer for Polygerrit and is based in |
| Seattle. |
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| ### Dave Borowitz - Google {#dborowitz} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dborowitz/) |
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| Dave Borowitz is Staff Software Engineer at Google and principal |
| project maintainer. |
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| ### David Pursehouse - CollabNet {#dpursehouse} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpursehouse/) |
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| David is a contributor to Gerrit since 2011 and a maintainer/committer |
| since 2012. He is based in Japan and works remotely as part of |
| CollabNet's Teamforge Git Engineering team in Berlin. |
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| ### Dustin Smith - Google {#smithdc} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-smith-b0525458) |
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| Dustin is a User Experience Research at Google for the PolyGerrit UX team in |
| Seattle. |
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| ### Eryk Szymanski - CollabNet {#eszymanski} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eryk-szymanski-94b92ba/) |
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| Eryk is leading CollabNet's TeamForge Git Engineering team in Berlin. |
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| ### Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google {#hanwen} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://de.linkedin.com/in/han-wen-nienhuys-794735/) |
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| Han-Wen has been managing Google's Gerrit team in Munich, Germany since 2015. |
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| ### Jacek Centkowski - CollabNet {#jcentkowski} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcentkowski/) |
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| Jacek is a contributor to Gerrit since 2013 but mostly works on |
| TeamForge Git/Gerrit Integration for CollabNet's team in Berlin. |
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| ### Logan Hanks - Google {#logan} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganhanks) |
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| Logan manages Google's PolyGerrit team in San Francisco. |
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| ### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#lmilanesio} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/) |
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| Luca is co-founder of GerritForge and has over 20 years of software development |
| and application lifecycle management experience. |
| He is a Gerrit Contributor for over five years and is the maintainer |
| of [GerritHub.io](https://gerrithub.io), the Open Service for Gerrit Code Review |
| on top of GitHub repositories. |
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| ### Martin Fick - Qualcomm {#mfick} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-fick-8637611/) |
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| Martin is a Software Engineer at Qualcomm. |
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| ### Patrick Hiesel - Google {#hiesel} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickhiesel/) |
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| Patrick Hiesel is a maintainer of Gerrit and Software Engineer at Google |
| in Munich. |
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| ### Shane McIntosh - McGill University {#smcintosh} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-mcintosh-94a6971b/) |
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| Shane McIntosh is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and |
| Computer Engineering at McGill University, where he leads the Software |
| Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (Software REBELs). He received |
| his Bachelor's degree in Applied Computing from the University of Guelph and |
| his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University, for which he was |
| awarded the Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal. In his research, |
| Shane uses empirical software engineering techniques to study software build |
| systems, release engineering, and software quality. More info about Shane and |
| the REBELs is available [online](http://rebels.ece.mcgill.ca/). |
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| # Q&A with the maintainers |
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| ### Alice Kober-Sotzek - Google {#aliceks} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-kober-sotzek-23024133/) |
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| ### Becky Siegel - Google {#beckysiegel} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccasiegel/) |
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| ### Edwin Kempin - Google {#ekempin} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwin-kempin-215234b4/) |
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| ### Wyatt Allen - Google {#wyattallen} |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wyatt-allen-02547922/) |