speakers.md - summit/2019 - Git at Google

 # Gerrit User Summit 2019 - Speakers

 ### Edwin Kempin - Google {#ekempin}

 Edwin is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2010,
 became a maintainer in 2012 and assumed the role as community manager in 2019.

 Since 2015 he's working at Google in the Gerrit backend team that develops
 Gerrit core and maintains the Gerrit infrastructure at Google. Previously Edwin
 worked 10+ years at SAP where he was responsible for Gerrit development and
 hosting as well.

 ### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#lmilanesio}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/)

 Luca is the co-founder of GerritForge and has over 25 years of software development
 and application lifecycle management experience.
 He is a Gerrit Contributor since 2012 and member of the Engineering Steering Committee in 2019.
 Luca maintains [GerritHub.io](https://gerrithub.io), the Open Service for Gerrit Code Review
 on top of GitHub repositories.

 ### Nicholas Mucci - Volvo Cars {xnupanic}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmucci/)

 Nicholas is a Technical Expert in Continuous Deployment and a System Architect
 for the Electrical Propulsion Systems group at Volvo Cars.  He has worked on
 modernizing software engineering processes using Gerrit and other CM/CI systems
 previously at Garmin and Apple and has been a member of the Gerrit community
 since 2009.

 ### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}

 [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli/)

 Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge where he contributes to the
 OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
 He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of DevOps
 analytics tools for Gerrit.
 He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and
 cloud-based, with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS
 and related ecosystems.

 ### Alice Kober-Sotzek - Google {#aliceks}

 Alice has been a software developer for 8 years with a strong focus on Java
 development (both backend and frontend). In 2016, she joined the Gerrit
 project and became a maintainer 8 months later. When the Engineering Steering
 Committee was formed in 2019, she became one of its members.

 Since joining the project, Alice has been part of Google's Gerrit backend team
 who develops Gerrit core and maintains the Gerrit infrastructure at Google.
 She is passionate about code health and wants to bring a good developer
 experience to everyone.


 ### Michael Watkins - Softagram {#mwatkins}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/watkinsmi/)

 Michael joined Softagram as a backend developer in the beginning of 2019,
 helping to reinforce the small team of developers in their new approach to
 code review and source code visualization. Shortly after joining the company,
 he began working on integrating Softagram's impact reports into the Gerrit
 workflow. Although he had no prior experience with Gerrit, Michael quickly
 learned some of the ins and outs, and is on his way to becoming a Gerrit
 expert. Besides sharing Softagram's simplified approach to code review at
 the Gerrit User Summit in Sweden, Michael is looking forward to participating
 as an attendee and continuing to build on his Gerrit Code Review knowledge.


 ### Thomas Gerbet - Enalean {#tgerbet}

 Thomas is a software developer who has at heart to make application
 security easier to get right for everyone.
 Since 2015, he is one of the maintainers of the open-source ALM software
 [Tuleap](https://www.tuleap.org/) which gives him the chance to work daily
 with Gerrit.

 ### James E. Blair - Red Hat {#corvus}

 James is a core member of the OpenStack project infrastructure team
 and a maintainer of the Zuul project gating system. As a sysadmin and
 hacker he gets to write elegant code and then try to make it work in
 the real world. He has been active in free software for quite some
 time, and has previously worked for UC Berkeley and the Free Software
 Foundation.

 ### Patrick Hiesel - Google {#hiesel}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickhiesel/)

 Patrick joined Google and the Gerrit project in 2016 working primarily on the
 backend. He is a Gerrit maintainer and a member of the newly formed Engineering
 Steering Committee. Before joining Google, Patrick worked on mobile apps and web
 backends as a freelancer and at another big tech company.

 Patrick's main focus is performance and stability. He makes the latency graphs
 go up and the user satisfaction graphs go down. Or was it the other way around?

 ### Monty Taylor - Red Hat {#mordred}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/montytaylor)

 Monty currently leads the team that works on the Zuul project for
 CI/CD in Red Hat's CTO Office. He's the founder, core member and past
 PTL of the OpenStack Infra team which runs CI and developer tooling
 for OpenStack. He's a member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of
 Directors, a Python Fellow and past member the OpenStack Technical
 Committee. Monty is the PTL of the openstacksdk project and is the
 maintainer of the Ansible modules for consuming OpenStack. Before his
 OpenStack days he was a core developer on Drizzle and was a Senior
 Consultant for MySQL, Inc.

 ### David Ostrovsky - GerritForge {#davido}

 David is a contributor to Gerrit since 2013 and a maintainer/committer
 since 2016. David has been an open source and free software enthusiast
 for many years and has contribited to a number of open source projects.

 ### Marian Harbach - Google {#mharbach}

 Marian joined Google in 2018 as a UX Researcher looking at internal developer
 tools. In a previous life, he did academic research on the UX of security and
 privacy in smartphones and the Web. Marian also used to be part of the connected
 car security team at a large German automaker.

 More recently, he is researching code review workflows and hoping to help improving
 the Gerrit experience.

 ### Delphine Carlson - Google {#delphinec}

 Delphine is a UX Designer at Google and works on Gerrit and Critique (the
 Google internal code review tool).

 ### Ben Rohlfs - Google {#brohlfs}

 Ben spent the past eleven years at Google working as an engineer on developer
 tools, most of that time on Critique, the Google internal code review system.
 Since 2019 he is Gerrit's frontend lead and a member of the Engineering Steering
 Committee.

 Unlike many engineers Ben is deeply in love with colors and pixels and has a
 tendency to waste his time on css tweaks. Feel free to report issues to him
 when something is one pixel off center.

 ### Ivan Frade - Google {#ifrade}

 Ivan Frade is a software engineer at Google. He works in the git service
 that hosts popular repositores as Chromium and Android. He is a regular
 contributor to the JGit library.

 Before working in Git, Ivan worked for Nokia in their linux-based mobile
 platform, Maemo/Meego, and has contributed to the GNOME desktop.

 ### Matthias Sohn - SAP {#msohn}

 Matthias is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2010,
 and assumed the role as community manager in 2019.  He leads the Gerrit team at
 SAP and is project lead of Eclipse JGit and EGit.


 ### Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google {#hanwen}

 Han-Wen leads the Gerrit Backend team in Munich since 2016. Aside from managing
 the team, he occasionally writes code when nobody is watching.

 ### Miikka Andersson - CollabNet {#mandersson}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miikkaandersson/)

 Miikka joined CollabNet in 2016 as a Sr. Product Manager with special focus on
 company’s version control and software configuration management offering. Prior
 to joining CollabNet, he was architecting and driving large-scale CI/CD initiatives
 when working for enterprises, such as Nokia and Microsoft. Being a huge advocate
 of Agile and DevOps, he is always eager to help organizations to apply best SW
 engineering practices.

 ### Tao Zhou - Google {#taoalpha}

 Tao is a software engineer at Google. He joined the Gerrit Frontend team in Munich
 in Aug, 2019.
	# Gerrit User Summit 2019 - Speakers

	### Edwin Kempin - Google {#ekempin}

	Edwin is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2010,
	became a maintainer in 2012 and assumed the role as community manager in 2019.

	Since 2015 he's working at Google in the Gerrit backend team that develops
	Gerrit core and maintains the Gerrit infrastructure at Google. Previously Edwin
	worked 10+ years at SAP where he was responsible for Gerrit development and
	hosting as well.

	### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#lmilanesio}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/)

	Luca is the co-founder of GerritForge and has over 25 years of software development
	and application lifecycle management experience.
	He is a Gerrit Contributor since 2012 and member of the Engineering Steering Committee in 2019.
	Luca maintains [GerritHub.io](https://gerrithub.io), the Open Service for Gerrit Code Review
	on top of GitHub repositories.

	### Nicholas Mucci - Volvo Cars {xnupanic}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmucci/)

	Nicholas is a Technical Expert in Continuous Deployment and a System Architect
	for the Electrical Propulsion Systems group at Volvo Cars. He has worked on
	modernizing software engineering processes using Gerrit and other CM/CI systems
	previously at Garmin and Apple and has been a member of the Gerrit community
	since 2009.

	### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}

	[LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli/)

	Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge where he contributes to the
	OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
	He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of DevOps
	analytics tools for Gerrit.
	He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and
	cloud-based, with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS
	and related ecosystems.

	### Alice Kober-Sotzek - Google {#aliceks}

	Alice has been a software developer for 8 years with a strong focus on Java
	development (both backend and frontend). In 2016, she joined the Gerrit
	project and became a maintainer 8 months later. When the Engineering Steering
	Committee was formed in 2019, she became one of its members.

	Since joining the project, Alice has been part of Google's Gerrit backend team
	who develops Gerrit core and maintains the Gerrit infrastructure at Google.
	She is passionate about code health and wants to bring a good developer
	experience to everyone.


	### Michael Watkins - Softagram {#mwatkins}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/watkinsmi/)

	Michael joined Softagram as a backend developer in the beginning of 2019,
	helping to reinforce the small team of developers in their new approach to
	code review and source code visualization. Shortly after joining the company,
	he began working on integrating Softagram's impact reports into the Gerrit
	workflow. Although he had no prior experience with Gerrit, Michael quickly
	learned some of the ins and outs, and is on his way to becoming a Gerrit
	expert. Besides sharing Softagram's simplified approach to code review at
	the Gerrit User Summit in Sweden, Michael is looking forward to participating
	as an attendee and continuing to build on his Gerrit Code Review knowledge.


	### Thomas Gerbet - Enalean {#tgerbet}

	Thomas is a software developer who has at heart to make application
	security easier to get right for everyone.
	Since 2015, he is one of the maintainers of the open-source ALM software
	[Tuleap](https://www.tuleap.org/) which gives him the chance to work daily
	with Gerrit.

	### James E. Blair - Red Hat {#corvus}

	James is a core member of the OpenStack project infrastructure team
	and a maintainer of the Zuul project gating system. As a sysadmin and
	hacker he gets to write elegant code and then try to make it work in
	the real world. He has been active in free software for quite some
	time, and has previously worked for UC Berkeley and the Free Software
	Foundation.

	### Patrick Hiesel - Google {#hiesel}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickhiesel/)

	Patrick joined Google and the Gerrit project in 2016 working primarily on the
	backend. He is a Gerrit maintainer and a member of the newly formed Engineering
	Steering Committee. Before joining Google, Patrick worked on mobile apps and web
	backends as a freelancer and at another big tech company.

	Patrick's main focus is performance and stability. He makes the latency graphs
	go up and the user satisfaction graphs go down. Or was it the other way around?

	### Monty Taylor - Red Hat {#mordred}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/montytaylor)

	Monty currently leads the team that works on the Zuul project for
	CI/CD in Red Hat's CTO Office. He's the founder, core member and past
	PTL of the OpenStack Infra team which runs CI and developer tooling
	for OpenStack. He's a member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of
	Directors, a Python Fellow and past member the OpenStack Technical
	Committee. Monty is the PTL of the openstacksdk project and is the
	maintainer of the Ansible modules for consuming OpenStack. Before his
	OpenStack days he was a core developer on Drizzle and was a Senior
	Consultant for MySQL, Inc.

	### David Ostrovsky - GerritForge {#davido}

	David is a contributor to Gerrit since 2013 and a maintainer/committer
	since 2016. David has been an open source and free software enthusiast
	for many years and has contribited to a number of open source projects.

	### Marian Harbach - Google {#mharbach}

	Marian joined Google in 2018 as a UX Researcher looking at internal developer
	tools. In a previous life, he did academic research on the UX of security and
	privacy in smartphones and the Web. Marian also used to be part of the connected
	car security team at a large German automaker.

	More recently, he is researching code review workflows and hoping to help improving
	the Gerrit experience.

	### Delphine Carlson - Google {#delphinec}

	Delphine is a UX Designer at Google and works on Gerrit and Critique (the
	Google internal code review tool).

	### Ben Rohlfs - Google {#brohlfs}

	Ben spent the past eleven years at Google working as an engineer on developer
	tools, most of that time on Critique, the Google internal code review system.
	Since 2019 he is Gerrit's frontend lead and a member of the Engineering Steering
	Committee.

	Unlike many engineers Ben is deeply in love with colors and pixels and has a
	tendency to waste his time on css tweaks. Feel free to report issues to him
	when something is one pixel off center.

	### Ivan Frade - Google {#ifrade}

	Ivan Frade is a software engineer at Google. He works in the git service
	that hosts popular repositores as Chromium and Android. He is a regular
	contributor to the JGit library.

	Before working in Git, Ivan worked for Nokia in their linux-based mobile
	platform, Maemo/Meego, and has contributed to the GNOME desktop.

	### Matthias Sohn - SAP {#msohn}

	Matthias is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2010,
	and assumed the role as community manager in 2019. He leads the Gerrit team at
	SAP and is project lead of Eclipse JGit and EGit.


	### Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google {#hanwen}

	Han-Wen leads the Gerrit Backend team in Munich since 2016. Aside from managing
	the team, he occasionally writes code when nobody is watching.

	### Miikka Andersson - CollabNet {#mandersson}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miikkaandersson/)

	Miikka joined CollabNet in 2016 as a Sr. Product Manager with special focus on
	company’s version control and software configuration management offering. Prior
	to joining CollabNet, he was architecting and driving large-scale CI/CD initiatives
	when working for enterprises, such as Nokia and Microsoft. Being a huge advocate
	of Agile and DevOps, he is always eager to help organizations to apply best SW
	engineering practices.

	### Tao Zhou - Google {#taoalpha}

	Tao is a software engineer at Google. He joined the Gerrit Frontend team in Munich
	in Aug, 2019.