Speakers

Software Architect 2010 features a number of the world’s best-known experts on software development, who between them have written dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles.

They include:

Jim Coplien Jim “Cope” Coplien is the father of Organizational Patterns, one of the founders of the Software Pattern discipline, a pioneer in practical object-oriented design in the early 1990s and is a widely consulted authority, author, and trainer in the areas of software design and organizational improvements. He is currently a partner in Gertrud & Cope in Denmark, and in the Scrum Training Institute. His work ranges from programming and performance evaluation, to organizational improvement assessments, organizational development, and process improvement, and to consulting on system architecture. He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars around the world on Lean Architecture, Scrum fine-tuning, Patterns, and Agile software development and project management practice.

Neal Ford Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also a designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author of various books including The Art of Java Web Development and the 2006 No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is a regular speaker at various conferences worldwide.

Dave Wheeler Dave is a software consultant specialising in Microsoft UI technologies, fondly known by his Rock Solid Knowledge colleagues as the “Colouring in Guy”. He’s particularly fond of WPF and Silverlight, but to remain grounded in reality he also works extensively with ASP.NET and is a moderator on Microsoft’s ASP.NET forums. When not writing software, Dave writes and teaches various .NET courses for DevelopMentor, writes articles and speaks at various conferences.

Allen Holub Allen is a software design consultant, programmer, trainer and author, specialising in OO analysis and design, patterns, UML, Java, and Agile process. He is a contributing editor for JavaWorld, and has written dozens of technical articles for various leading publications. He regularly speaks at conferences in the US, and he has written nine books on programming topics, including the highly-rated ‘Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code’.

Kevlin Henney Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based on the UK. He specialises in programming languages, OO design, patterns, development process and software architecture. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and C/C++ Users Journal. Kevlin is co-author of two recent volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also a regular speaker at various conferences, including DevWeek.

Simon Brown Simon is a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. He’s a hands-on software architect with a BSc in Computer Science, and over the past 12 years he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He’s also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology. Simon is additionally active in wider aspects of the IT industry. He founded the ‘Coding the Architecture’ web site, and he has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at a various conferences, developed a software architecture training course, and actively maintains a public blog.

Christian Weyer Christian is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions. He has modelled and implemented distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies over the years, and recently he has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects, primarily using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

Jesus Rodriguez Jesus is the Chief Architect of Tellago, Inc. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a small group of architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. He is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities, and a regular speaker at various conferences, including Microsoft TechEd, SOAWorld, Oracle Open World, Web Services Security Conference and the Microsoft MVP Summit. He has written articles for various publications, including MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal, and he is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration.

Dominick Baier Dominick is an internationally recognised expert on the security of .NET and Windows applications. He supports companies worldwide with design and implementation of security features in their software. He also has several years of experience in code auditing and reviewing, penetration testing and security policy definition and establishment, and is a certified BS 7799 (ISO17799) Lead Auditor. As one of the few “Developer Security” Microsoft MVPs, he works directly with various security teams in Redmond. One of the offsprings of this cooperation is the book ‘Developing More Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications’, which was published in 2006 by Microsoft Press and quickly became a key reference for ASP.NET security. Dominick also leads the security curriculum at DevelopMentor, authoring and teaching courses about .NET, ASP.NET, WCF and Windows security.

Eric Nelson Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist, and has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies – from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF, and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group, and his current interests include digging into the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and the Windows Azure Platform.

Jim Webber Dr Jim Webber is director of professional services for ThoughtWorks, where he works on dependable distributed systems architecture for clients worldwide. Though his current interests are in using the Web for building distributed systems, Jim was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he developed techniques for dependable, global-scale high performance computing. As an architect with Hewlett-Packard, and later Arjuna Technologies, Jim was the lead developer on the industry’s first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is a regular speaker at conferences across the globe, and in addition to authoring ‘Developing Enterprise Web Services – An Architect’s Guide’ he is working on a new book on Web-based integration called ‘REST in Practice’. Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing, both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Richard Blewett Richard has been working in the software industry for over 20 years, starting with mainframes through the early years of client/server to today’s service-oriented world. He has spent his professional life working on large distributed systems, including being the middle tier architect on the UK national police systems. He now focuses on technologies that enable developers to build large-scale systems on the Microsoft platform, such as WCF, BizTalk, Workflow and Azure. He is a regular speaker at various conferences including TechEd, DevWeek, Software Architect and Oredev, and he can often be found helping people on various newsgroups, mailing lists and web forums, including being a moderator of the MSDN WCF Forum – activity that has resulted in Microsoft awarding him MVP status for Connected Systems. Richard is also a DevelopMentor instructor, for whom he writes and teaches material on a wide range of technologies.

Dino Esposito Dino is a trainer and software consultant based in Rome. A member of the IDesign team, he specializes in Microsoft .NET technologies, and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe and the USA. He has hands-on experience in architecting and building distributed systems for banking and insurance companies. A prolific author, Dino writes columns for various magazines, and has written a number of books on various cutting-edge topics. An ASP.NET MVP, he regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world, including TechEd, DevConnections, Software Architect and DevWeek.

Ian Robinson Ian is a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he helps clients create sustainable service-oriented development capabilities that align business and IT from inception through to operation. He’s written guidance for Microsoft’s patterns and practices on implementing service-oriented systems with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design – most recently in the ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008). He’s currently co-authoring a book on Web-friendly enterprise integration with Jim Webber and Savas Parastatidis.

Tobias Komischke Tobias has been working in the area of user experience for over ten years, leading projects and teams to create user interfaces in various industries. He is Director of User Experience at Infragistics, a software company which specialises in user interface development tools and services. While he is deeply familiar with all aspects of user experience, his specialty is Human Factors Engineering, which is rooted in his academic background in cognitive psychology. Tobias is a frequent speaker at various conferences and author for technical journals, magazines and blogs.

Hadi Hariri Hadi is a developer, speaker, podcaster and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. A book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi has been speaking at various industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons, and runs the .NET Malaga User Group. He is also a C# MVP.

Ingo Rammer Ingo is a co-founder of thinktecture, a company which specializes in helping developers and architects create distributed applications which perform and scale as necessary. He is a distributed application expert (technologies around WCF, WF, ASMX, MSMQ, Remoting), with a knack for optimizing scalability and performance of medium to large applications. He is a Microsoft MVP for Solutions Architecture, and a Microsoft Regional Director for Austria. Ingo was the co-author of Advanced .NET Remoting, and has written numerous technical articles.

Mike Taulty Mike works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK, where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best out of the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, he spent three years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous nine years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors, using a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies. He is a regular speaker at various technical conferences, including TechEd Europe, DevDays Holland, MIX UK and DevWeek.

Tim Ewald Tim is a Senior Consulting Software Engineer at SeaChange International, the world’s leading vendor of video-on-demand and ad-insertion systems for television operators. He is responsible for the architecture of the company’s next-generation video delivery platform. Tim has 20 years experience building complex distributed systems on a range of technology stacks. He is an internationally recognized speaker who always tries to have something interesting to say.

Andy Clymer Andy has been working as a software engineer since 1993, with a variety of languages, technologies & operating systems. A large part of his software engineering experience was at Cisco Systems, arriving there in 1997 as part of an acquisition of a small UK start-up. Andy finally left Cisco in 2003, his last role being Lead Architect for Cisco’s identity framework, coordinating an international team of developers. Since leaving Cisco he has focused on .NET technology, and splits his time between consultancy with Rock Solid Knowledge and teaching for DevelopMentor, specialising in patterns and the chaotic world of multi-threading/parallel programming. He is a regular speaker at conferences like DevWeek and Software Architect.

Michael Stal Dr Michael Stal is a Certified Senior Software Architect and Principal Engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology. He is the co-author of several books, including Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1 (A System of Patterns) and Volume 2 (Patterns for Networked and Concurrent Systems). He has been involved in several large-scale software development projects. In addition, Michael acts as a editor-in-chief of JavaSPEKTRUM and co-host of the podcast Software ArchitekTOUR.

Eoin Woods Eoin is head of application architecture at BlackRock (formerly Barclays Global Investors) and on a day-to-day basis is also responsible for the design of a new equities portfolio management system being built for the company’s well-known active management group. Prior to BlackRock, Eoin has worked in the software engineering field for over 15 years, for a number of companies including Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust and UBS Investment Bank. His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems, computer security, and data management; he is co-author of the book ‘Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives’, published by Addison Wesley.

Software Architect Tuesday: Jim Coplien on Lean Software Architecture
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Software Architect Wednesday: Allen Holub on Security 101: an introduction to software security at the architectural and process level
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Software Architect Friday: Neal Ford on Distributed Agile Development Workshop
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Software Architect Thursday: Hadi Hariri on REST architectures with ASP.NET MVC
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