Speakers

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  Rik Arends

  Rik Arends is co-founder and CTO of Ajax.org and is pushing the limits for online application development with Cloud9 IDE. With over 15 years of experience in 3D, computer vision, large systems architecture and code generation he has broad experience with many current web technologies from both the C++ and Javascript angles. He is an experienced speaker and is often invited to speak at web technology conferences around the world.

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  Michael Bridgen

  Michael Bridgen works for RabbitMQ, now a part of VMware, in London UK. Hence and otherwise, he spends much of his time thinking about protocols, messaging and hippy open-source functional programming.

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  Tim Caswell

  Tim Caswell is an avid JavaScript hacker and Open Source addict. He picked up node in the early days and has never been able to let it go since. Tim is the primary author or howtonode.org as well as many node libraries (Connect, Step, Wheat, ...). He loves teaching others so that they can help in making great software.

  Twitter: creationix, Github: creationix

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  Ryan Dahl

  Ryan is the Node.js creator and project lead. He recently moved to San Francisco from Germany. He is sad that the parks in SF don't have ping pong tables but is happy with the weather.

  Twitter: ryah, Github: ry

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  Tom Hughes-Croucher

  Tom Hughes-Croucher is an international speaker and expert on Web Development and Cloud Computing. He is a Node.js core contributor and the author of the upcoming O'Reilly Press title "Up and Running with Node.js". Tom has contributed to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). Tom's clients include many well known brands in the UK and USA including Yahoo!, Tesco, NASA, Three telecom and Channel 4.

  Twitter: sh1mmer, Github: sh1mmer

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  Paul Querna

  Paul Querna is the Chief Architect at Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded start-up. Cloudkick specializes in portability and openness between cloud providers. 1,000s of companies use Cloudkick to manage their infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc. Paul has contributed to many open source projects and is a committer to the Apache HTTP Server and Apache Libcloud, the open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. Paul also served as VP of Infrastructure for the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to that, Paul held Senior Software Engineering positions at Joost, Ask.com, and Bloglines.

  Twitter: pquerna, Github: pquerna

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  Matt Ranney

  Matt is the author of node_redis and node_pcap. He is currently the CTO of Voxer.

  Twitter: mranney, Github: mranney

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  Guillermo Rauch

  CTO and cofounder of SF-based education startup LearnBoost, author of socket.io, co-author of the mongoose MongoDB Node.JS ORM, contributor to the express web framework, MooTools core developer, blogger and overall open source lover.

  Twitter: rauchg, Github: guille

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  Mikeal Rogers

  Mikeal loves him some JavaScript!

  Twitter: mikeal, Github: mikeal

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  Isaac Schlueter

  Isaac "isaacs" Z. Schlueter is all about NodeJS. He wrote and maintains npm, lives in Oak Land, and enjoys building things with JavaScript.

  Twitter: izs, Github: isaacs