| # Gerrit User Summit 2023 - Speakers |
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| ### First Last - Company {#anchor} |
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| First Last is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2009, |
| became a maintainer in 2012 and assumed the role as community manager in 2023. |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/firstlast/) |
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| ### Shane McIntosh - University of Waterloo {#shane} |
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| Shane McIntosh is the current Ross & Muriel Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in the |
| [Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/). |
| At U. Waterloo, Shane directs the Software Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs |
| ([the Software REBELs](https://rebels.cs.uwaterloo.ca/)), where he and his trainees |
| use empirical methods to study software build systems, release engineering, and |
| software quality. |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-mcintosh/) |
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| ### Farshad Kazemi - University of Waterloo {#farshad} |
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| Farshad Kazemi is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Waterloo. The overarching goal of his |
| Ph.D. research is making pragmatic improvements to the quality and efficiency of peer code |
| review. |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/farshadkazemi/) |
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| ### Jacek Centkowski - Unaffiliated {#jacek} |
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| Jacek Centkowski is a Gerrit contributor since 2013. He deepened his Gerrit knowledge and |
| involvement and was trusted a maintainer in 2020. He has recently focused on |
| [owners' plugin improvements](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/plugins/owners/+/373094/1). |
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| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcentkowski/) |
