Speakers

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Software Architect 2011 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:

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.

Allen Holub Allen is an internationally acknowledged expert in OO-Design, Agile Process, Java, and Cloud-based web application development. He provides training and consulting services in those areas, and even slings code on occasion. He’s spoken at numerous conferences over the years, has taught regularly for the University of California, and presents in-house classes for companies worldwide. Allen has authored nine books (including Holub on Patterns, Taming Java Threads, and Compiler Design in C), and 200+ magazine articles for various publications.

Dave Wheeler Dave is an independent software consultant specialising in Microsoft .NET technologies. 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 technical articles and speaks at various conferences.

Howard Deiner Howard is an independent software consultant based in the US, who specialises in Agile/XP/Lean software development processes and practices for the 21st century. He has a varied background spanning 35 years in the industry, with extensive domain knowledge in commercial software, aerospace, financial services, telecommunications, and location based hardware and software. Howard has played just about all the roles in his career, from developer, to analyst, team lead, architect, project manager, and executive. He has degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and is a long-standing member of the ACM and IEEE.

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.

Andrew Clymer Andy is a freelance IT consultant specialising in .NET-based technology. His last ’real’ job was at Cisco Systems, where he was a lead architect for Cisco’s identity solutions. Prior to Cisco he worked in various small start-ups. He teaches various .NET courses for DevelopMentor, including Guerrilla .NET and Essential .NET.

Matthew McCullough Matthew is an energetic 15-year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a US consultancy. He is currently a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O’Reilly, speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research centre around project automation: build tools (Gradle, Maven, Leiningen), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar).

Dominick Baier Dominick Baier is a trainer and author at DevelopMentor, focusing on the .NET security and WCF curriculum. As a consultant at thinktecture, he helps companies worldwide with architecture, design and implementation of secure distributed applications. As one of the few “developer security” Microsoft MVPs, he works directly with various security teams in Redmond. He was the author of Developing More Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications, and is one of fifteen MVPs who are co-authoring a book on Real World .NET 4 and C#, which will be published later this year.

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 co-author of Developing Enterprise Web Services – An Architect’s Guide and REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture. Jim holds a BSc in Computing Science and PhD in Parallel Computing, both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Oliver Sturm Oliver is an experienced software architect, developer, trainer and consultant, with a strong background in various different fields, including system and framework architecture and design, process modeling and user interface design. He is a Microsoft C# MVP, and until recently he worked as director of quality at Developer Express. He has authored numerous training classes and technical articles, and is an associate consultant at thinktecture.

Nathaniel T. Schutta Nate is a senior software engineer based in the US, focused on making usable applications – for the last several years, he has focused on user interface design. A proponent of polyglot programming, he has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages.

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 Microsoft technologies such as WCF, BizTalk, Workflow and Azure. He is a well-known conference speaker having spoken at TechEd, DevWeek, Software Architect and Oredev, and can often be found helping people on various newsgroups, mailing lists and web forums. Richard is also a DevelopMentor instructor, where he writes and teaches material on WCF, Workflow, BizTalk, Azure and a range of other topics.

Simon Brown Simon is an independent consultant based in Jersey, the founder of Coding the Architecture and either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture. Having successfully delivered a variety of projects on the .NET and Java platforms, Simon now also uses his experience to train and coach teams in delivering better software.

Dino Esposito Dino is a trainer and software consultant based in Rome. A member of the IDesign team, he specialises 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 is also co-author of REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture.

Gary Short Gary works for Developer Express as the technical evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK. As well as C#, he also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python, as well as iPhone development using Objective-C.

Ingo Rammer Ingo is a co-founder of thinktecture, a company which specialises 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 optimising 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.

Dave Ingram Dave is responsible for streamlining and optimising software development and delivery through the implementation of industrialised development and test approaches in one of the world’s largest management consultancies. Throughout his 25+ year career, he’s been involved in games/game engines, third/fourth generation language development and architecting and implementing many bespoke large-scale, mission-critical systems. He’s worked for many small companies as well as very large international corporations, and has written many white papers and training materials for analysts, developers and architects. Dave is a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society, and author of Design – Build – Run: Applied Practices and Principles for Production Ready Software Development.

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.

Stephen Blair-Chappell Stephen is a Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel, and has worked in the Intel Compiler Lab for the last 12 years. He is a regular speaker at technical conferences in Europe and the US. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Central England, specialising in Software Engineering and Embedded Systems. As an academic he developed and delivered CPU architecture programming courses for a number of silicon and software manufacturers. Stephen is co-author of the soon to be published book Parallel Programming with Intel Parallel Studio.

Eoin Woods Eoin works as a lead software architect for UBS Investment Bank, responsible for part of the bank’s Prime Services technology platform. Prior to this, he has worked in the software engineering field for 20 years, for a number of companies including Groupe Bull, Sybase, Zuhlke, InterTrust and BGI. 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.

Ralf Westphal Ralf is a freelance consultant, project coach, and trainer on .NET software architectural topics. He is the author of more than 450 articles since 1998, and has been awarded the Most Valued Professional badge by Microsoft each year since 2005. Together with his colleague Stefan Lieser he is the co-founder of the “Clean Code Developer” initiative (www.clean-code-developer.de) to increase software quality through principles and practices.

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