speakers.md - summit/2025 - Git at Google

 # Gerrit User Summit 2024 - Speakers

 ### Luca Milanesio - CEO, GerritForge {#dmilanesio}

 With 33 years of experience in all aspects of Source Control Management, CI/CD
 and Application Lifecycle Management, I have contributed to the success of many
 large companies across the globe.

 I co-founded GERRITFORGE 16 years ago, when I then join forces with Google,
 Qualcomm, SAP and the other Gerrit contributors to fuel innovation and drive the
 Gerrit Code Review open-source project. I play an active role in the OpenSource
 Community, contributing to several major projects.
 * Jenkins Continuous Integration (http://www.jenkins-ci.org) since 2007 in
 cooperation with CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com)
 * Gerrit Code Review (https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) and JGit
 (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit) since 2011 in
 cooperation with Google (www.google.com) and SAP (www.sap.com) I have been
 speaking in international conferences (Krakow, Varsaw, San Francisco, Palo Alto,
 GooglePlex - Mountain View) and author of whitepapers and books on Git and
 Gerrit Code Review.

 ### Jacek Centoswki - Senior Software Engineer - SoftwareMill {#jcentoswki}

 I am a software engineer and architect with experience across various domains.
 Over time, I’ve seen how good architecture and thoughtful design choices
 directly influence the quality, maintainability, and long-term impact of a
 product.

 I care about practical, scalable designs and clear separation of concerns. In my
 work, I focus on designing and maintaining systems that support change and are
 easy to reason about. I believe that during the implementation phase, code
 reviews are a crucial step - and making them as efficient as possible pays off.

 Outside of work, I contribute to open source, particularly Gerrit Code Review,
 where I’m active as a developer, maintainer, and occasional speaker.

 ### Farshad Kazemi - MLOps/SE researcher - Arteria AI {#fkazemi}

 Yet another developer seeking to find the answer to "why" questions!

 ### Antonio Barone - Senior Sofware Engineer - GerritForge inc. {#abarone}

 Gerrit maintainer and Release manager

 ### Vasdev Gullapalli - Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer/Manager - Qualcomm {#vgullapalli}

 Vasdev Gullapalli is a Senior Staff Engineer and Manager at Qualcomm,
 specializing in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
 With over 15 years of technology leadership, he architects and manages
 large-scale software delivery platforms, including GitHub, GitLab, and Gerrit,
 supporting over 100,000 engineers worldwide.

 ### Fredrik Medley - Lead Architect - Meroton {#fmedley}

 Fredrik is the Lead Architect at Meroton, focusing on improving developer
 experience by finding the bottlenecks in the build, test and bug-fixing flows.
 He has used Gerrit and Zuul since 2013, Bazel since 2017 and is a maintainer of
 Buildbarn.

 ### Martin Fick - Senior Software Configuration Management Engineer - NVIDIA {#mfick}

 I was the first person (along with Saša Živkov) to be appointed as a Gerrit
 maintainer by Shawn in 2011 while working for Qualcomm, and I have been
 contributing and working in the Gerrit ecosystem ever since. While working at
 NVIDIA, I also recently became a jgit committer and hope to contribute a lot
 more to both for another decade at least.

 At Qualcomm I helped design many of the plugin extensions such as the ability to
 tie in plugin arguments to ssh commands and to add search operators and search
 output from plugins. I also did most of the development of the task plugin and
 designed most of the batch plugin. I significantly helped push many
 multi-primary technologies forward, including guiding how to make jgit accurate
 and performant on NFS in these situations. I helped reduced the memory
 consumption of cached index files to help servers scale better with thousands of
 repositories, and more recently I have helped significantly improve the
 performance of fetches and H2 caches.

 ### Scott Chacon - CEO - GitButler {#scachon}

 Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a
 next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow
 GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being
 acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git,
 published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds
 a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside
 of Berlin.

 ### Patrick Steinhardt, GitLab {#psteinhardt}

 I have started contributing to Git and libgit2 more than 10 years ago and am
 nowadays one of the core Git contributors. I care deeply about the whole Git
 community and have contributed to large projects like the reftable backend and
 pluggable object databases, but also to countless other smaller projects.
 Nowadays I am employed by GitLab as engineering manager of the Git team, where I
 coordinate our upstream contributions into the Git project.

 ### Skyler {#skyler}
 Hi, I'm Skyler (pronouns she/her)!

 I'm a software engineer - working professionally to bring LibreOffice based
 office editing to your browser - which means I use both Gerrit (when writing
 LibreOffice) and GitHub (when writing Collabora Online) on a regular basis.

 To me, code is inherently a collaborative endeavor - even my dotfiles are shared
 with friends(!) - so I care about high quality code review and crafting a commit
 history that is maximally useful to anyone reading my commits (be it my friends
 today or myself in the future...).
	# Gerrit User Summit 2024 - Speakers

	### Luca Milanesio - CEO, GerritForge {#dmilanesio}

	With 33 years of experience in all aspects of Source Control Management, CI/CD
	and Application Lifecycle Management, I have contributed to the success of many
	large companies across the globe.

	I co-founded GERRITFORGE 16 years ago, when I then join forces with Google,
	Qualcomm, SAP and the other Gerrit contributors to fuel innovation and drive the
	Gerrit Code Review open-source project. I play an active role in the OpenSource
	Community, contributing to several major projects.
	* Jenkins Continuous Integration (http://www.jenkins-ci.org) since 2007 in
	cooperation with CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com)
	* Gerrit Code Review (https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) and JGit
	(https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit) since 2011 in
	cooperation with Google (www.google.com) and SAP (www.sap.com) I have been
	speaking in international conferences (Krakow, Varsaw, San Francisco, Palo Alto,
	GooglePlex - Mountain View) and author of whitepapers and books on Git and
	Gerrit Code Review.

	### Jacek Centoswki - Senior Software Engineer - SoftwareMill {#jcentoswki}

	I am a software engineer and architect with experience across various domains.
	Over time, I’ve seen how good architecture and thoughtful design choices
	directly influence the quality, maintainability, and long-term impact of a
	product.

	I care about practical, scalable designs and clear separation of concerns. In my
	work, I focus on designing and maintaining systems that support change and are
	easy to reason about. I believe that during the implementation phase, code
	reviews are a crucial step - and making them as efficient as possible pays off.

	Outside of work, I contribute to open source, particularly Gerrit Code Review,
	where I’m active as a developer, maintainer, and occasional speaker.

	### Farshad Kazemi - MLOps/SE researcher - Arteria AI {#fkazemi}

	Yet another developer seeking to find the answer to "why" questions!

	### Antonio Barone - Senior Sofware Engineer - GerritForge inc. {#abarone}

	Gerrit maintainer and Release manager

	### Vasdev Gullapalli - Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer/Manager - Qualcomm {#vgullapalli}

	Vasdev Gullapalli is a Senior Staff Engineer and Manager at Qualcomm,
	specializing in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
	With over 15 years of technology leadership, he architects and manages
	large-scale software delivery platforms, including GitHub, GitLab, and Gerrit,
	supporting over 100,000 engineers worldwide.

	### Fredrik Medley - Lead Architect - Meroton {#fmedley}

	Fredrik is the Lead Architect at Meroton, focusing on improving developer
	experience by finding the bottlenecks in the build, test and bug-fixing flows.
	He has used Gerrit and Zuul since 2013, Bazel since 2017 and is a maintainer of
	Buildbarn.

	### Martin Fick - Senior Software Configuration Management Engineer - NVIDIA {#mfick}

	I was the first person (along with Saša Živkov) to be appointed as a Gerrit
	maintainer by Shawn in 2011 while working for Qualcomm, and I have been
	contributing and working in the Gerrit ecosystem ever since. While working at
	NVIDIA, I also recently became a jgit committer and hope to contribute a lot
	more to both for another decade at least.

	At Qualcomm I helped design many of the plugin extensions such as the ability to
	tie in plugin arguments to ssh commands and to add search operators and search
	output from plugins. I also did most of the development of the task plugin and
	designed most of the batch plugin. I significantly helped push many
	multi-primary technologies forward, including guiding how to make jgit accurate
	and performant on NFS in these situations. I helped reduced the memory
	consumption of cached index files to help servers scale better with thousands of
	repositories, and more recently I have helped significantly improve the
	performance of fetches and H2 caches.

	### Scott Chacon - CEO - GitButler {#scachon}

	Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a
	next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow
	GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being
	acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git,
	published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds
	a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside
	of Berlin.

	### Patrick Steinhardt, GitLab {#psteinhardt}

	I have started contributing to Git and libgit2 more than 10 years ago and am
	nowadays one of the core Git contributors. I care deeply about the whole Git
	community and have contributed to large projects like the reftable backend and
	pluggable object databases, but also to countless other smaller projects.
	Nowadays I am employed by GitLab as engineering manager of the Git team, where I
	coordinate our upstream contributions into the Git project.

	### Skyler {#skyler}
	Hi, I'm Skyler (pronouns she/her)!

	I'm a software engineer - working professionally to bring LibreOffice based
	office editing to your browser - which means I use both Gerrit (when writing
	LibreOffice) and GitHub (when writing Collabora Online) on a regular basis.

	To me, code is inherently a collaborative endeavor - even my dotfiles are shared
	with friends(!) - so I care about high quality code review and crafting a commit
	history that is maximally useful to anyone reading my commits (be it my friends
	today or myself in the future...).