Maria Gutierrez

Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom

Maria is Senior Director of Engineering and Co-Site Lead for Intercom London. She also leads Intercom's global R&D Operations function with a focus on building a more efficient and effective Product and Engineering organisation at scale. With 20 years of experience in the software industry, Maria has previously led globally distributed teams at LivingSocial and FreeAgent.

Han Yuan

Associate Partner at AKF Partners and Founder and CEO of Post-PC Labs

Han Yuan is an associate partner at AKF Partners which specializes in due diligence, technology consulting, and interim CxO leadership. Han is also the founder and CEO of Post-PC Labs, LLC. Before Post-PC Labs, Han was SVP of Engineering at Upwork, where he led one of the world's most distributed engineering teams: 350+ engineers in 40 countries around the world. Han was part of the leadership team that helped take the company public in 2018. Prior to his time at Upwork, Han was an influential mobile engineering leader, having incubated world-class teams for eBay and Netflix.

Matthew 'Forni' Fornaciari

CTO at Gremlin Inc.

Matt started experimenting with computers as a child, largely due to an intense aversion to repeating tasks manually. This experimentation quickly blossomed into a passion and then a career that began with making Amazon.com more reliable. Since then Matt has taken what he learned at Amazon.com and started Gremlin, a company that is making the internet at large more reliable and allowing on-call engineers everywhere to rest more easily.

Kelly Waters

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at 101 Ways

With 35 years experience in the tech industry, Kelly has a deep understanding of the tech space and what it takes to bring about successful product development and delivery. In 2010, Kelly was recognised for his work by the agile community when he won an award for being the ‘Most Valuable Agile Player in the UK’. In 2016 he also won an award for ‘most popular online contributor’ in the agile community. He started 101 Ways with the aim to improve and enrich people’s lives through technology, by helping technology leaders solve challenging problems and build great digital products. Since then 101 Ways has gone from strength to strength, quickly becoming one of the most sought-after technology consultancies in London.

Christine Spang

Co-Founder and CTO at Nylas

Christine is the CTO and Fo-Founder of Nylas. She studied Engineering at MIT and enjoys rock climbing and exploring the outdoors in her free time.

Charity Majors

CTO of Honeycomb

CTO of Honeycomb, ex-Facebook, ex-Parse, ex-Linden Lab; operations engineer who accidentally ends up in charge of the databases.

Abby Kearns

CTO at Puppet

With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the technology industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. At Puppet, she will lead the vision and direction of its current and future enterprise product portfolio. Prior to joining Puppet, Abby was the Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation where she focused on driving the Foundation’s vision and growing the open source project. Through her tenure, Abby built an install base that included more than half of the Fortune 500. Abby has deep cloud experience. At Pivotal, she drove the adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and at Verizon, she led the Product Management teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. Her background also includes operations spanning companies such as Totality, EDS, and Sabre.

James Shore

Principal Consultant

James Shore teaches, writes, and consults on Agile software development. He is a recipient of the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, co-author of The Art of Agile Development, and co-creator of the Agile Fluency® Model.

Rachana Kumar

VP of Engineering at Etsy

Rachana Kumar is an award winning, global minded industry leader with a passion for using innovative technology to help others. In her current role as VP of Engineering at Etsy, she leads several product engineering teams, directing engineering initiatives that impact over 2.3 million creative entrepreneurs and 45 million active buyers.

Matias Woloski

Co-Founder and CTO at Auth0

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder and CTO at Auth0, where he contributes to the vision and long term innovation of the company. From building teams to building great software, Matias has decades of experience working with everyone from Fortune 500 to start-ups.

Shannon Hogue

Global Head of Solutions Engineering at Karat

Shannon is an engineering leader with over 20 years building products, teams, and companies. As Global Head of Solutions Engineering at Karat, it’s Shannon’s job to unlock hiring opportunities by making every technical interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable.

Bryan Helmkamp

Founder and CEO, Code Climate

Bryan Helmkamp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Code Climate, where he helps engineering leaders improve the speed and quality of engineering work. In addition to advising hundreds of customers on data-driven best practices, he’s spoken on the subject at conferences worldwide, recently authored "The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Cycle Time,” and co-authored two other books on software development.

Daniel Terhorst-North

Principal Consultant

Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimise digital product organisations. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With thirty years of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts.

Emma Hopkinson-Spark

Chief of Staff at 101 Ways

Emma is the Practice Director responsible for Coaching and Transformation in 101 Ways, with over 20 years experience in tech and leadership. She was a subject matter expert for the Scrum Alliance in developing the CSP standards, an award winning coach, and a co-organiser of the Global Gathering in London 2018.

Ori Keren

CEO at LinearB

Ori Keren is CEO and Co-founder at Linear B. With more than 13 years of experience, Ori has a solid track record of building excellent engineering organizations from the ground up and leading innovative software projects that drive mission critical value to large enterprises around the globe.

Zoe Cunningham

Director at Softwire

Zoe Cunningham has worked in the tech industry for 20 years, starting as a coder in 2000. She’s currently a Director at Softwire, having held the role of Managing Director from 2012-2020. Zoe’s first book “Galvanising the Geeks” details her thoughts and experiences of managing technical teams.

Aubrey Stearn

Executive Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase

Aubrey is a keen technologist and remains relatively hands-on as a CTO, a generalist in most technologies and stacks, she enjoys creating the support for organic cultural growth to take place. Aubrey can also be found making YouTube videos with ever increasing volumes of animation, has a esoteric interest in the Gameboy and it’s Z80 derivative CPU and is a cat mom.

Glyn Roberts

CTO of Digital Solutions at iTechArt

Glyn is a technical leader with over 15 years experience in the software industry moving from developer roles to progressing into multiple Head/CTO positions in the UK and Portugal. He is a technical all-rounder with a strong focus on enabling businesses to accelerate and scale their engineering capabilities. Glyn’s role at iTechArt is to support businesses with their growth by advising on technical solutions, team requirements and business priorities to achieve their needs.

Andy Skipper

Founder and Chief Coach at CTO Craft

Andy has led startup engineering teams as CTO since 2006, including Made.com, and was the first CTO at Comic Relief, one of the largest charities in the UK.

He now runs CTO Craft, a mentoring community and coaching practice focused on CTOs and technology leaders, with thousands of members, spanning the globe, where he helps technologists get to grips with senior leadership and management, culture and operations alongside a number of other experienced CTO mentors and strategists.

Douglas Squirrel

Consulting CTO

Squirrel is an executive coach and consulting CTO who creates dramatic productivity gains in technology organisations of all sizes.

Squirrel uses the power of conversations to create dramatic productivity gains in technology organisations of all sizes. Squirrel’s experience includes growing software teams as a CTO in startups from FinTech to biotech to music, and everything in between; consulting on product improvement at over 100 organisations in the UK, US, Australia, and Europe; and coaching a wide variety of leaders in improving their conversations, aligning to business goals, and creating productive conflict. He lives in Frogholt, England, in a timber-framed cottage built in the year 1450.

João Graça

CTO at Unbabel

João Graça is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Unbabel, a company that removes language barriers by blending artificial intelligence with real time, human translations.. Previously, he worked with INESC-ID developing research in natural language processing (NLP) and went on to do his PostDoc in NLP at the University of Pennsylvania. João developed a new statistical learning method that allowed for the insertion of declarative knowledge during learning, unlocking previously impossible-to-tackle problems. He is also one of the co-founders of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS).

Jeffrey Fredrick

Managing Director at TIM, an Acuris Company

Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized expert in software development and has over twenty-five years’ experience covering both sides of the business/technology divide. An early adopter of XP and Agile practices, Jeffrey has been a conference speaker in the US, Europe, India and Japan. Through his work on the pioneering open-source project CruiseControl, and through his role as co-organiser of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), he has had a global impact on software development. Jeffrey’s Silicon Valley experience includes roles as Vice President of Product Management, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Evangelist. He has also worked as an independent consultant on topics including corporate strategy, product management, marketing, and interaction design. Jeffrey is currently Managing Director in London at TIM, an Acuris Company. He also runs the London Organisational Learning Meetup and is a CTO mentor through CTO Craft.

Hywel Carver

CEO at Skiller Whale

Hywel Carver wrote his first program in C aged 9. After graduating with an MEng (Distinction) from Cambridge, he dropped out of his PhD programme to co-found his first start-up. Today, Hywel is Skiller Whale’s Co-Founder and CEO. He is a CTO Craft Expert, runs a dinner club for CTOs, has written a book to teach 10 year-olds computer science, and is designing and building his own 8-bit computer for playing Pong. In his 12+ year career, he’s been building and scaling start-ups from the ground up. With Skiller Whale, he is drawing on that experience to solve the biggest problem he faced as a CTO: learning for engineering teams.

Giles Lindsay

CEO at Agile Delta Consulting & Business Agility Coach

Giles Lindsay FIAP FBCS FCMI is a Technology and Agile Leader, with more than 25 years of experience. He is a former CTO and is now CEO of Agile Delta Consulting. Giles is a UK leading practitioner in scaled agile delivery, as well as a Certified Enterprise Agile Coach, speaking at Agile conferences and meetups globally. He is currently President of the Business Agility Institute UK Chapter and is also a member of the Advisory Council of the PMI Disciplined Agile Consortium. Giles is recognised as a leader, creative thinker, influencer, and coach. Giles is also the podcast host of The Agile Confessional and Founder of the Global Agile Community The Agilistas.

Gleb Bahmutov

Distinguished Engineer at Cypress.io

Gleb Bahmutov, PhD, is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the web a better place as a Distinguished Engineer at Cypress.io. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at glebbahmutov.com/blog.

Evelina Vrabie

Co-Founder and CTO at Touco Lab

Founder, manager and engineer with fourteen years of experience in technology startups. I care about product development and research for happy users, delivering high-quality software, independent system architectures, creating high-performing teams and increasing workplace happiness. I am 100% keen on remote work and async communication.

Antonello Caboni

Engineering Coach

Antonello is an accredited coach and an experienced facilitator specialised in Agile, Continuous Delivery, Quality Engineering and Leadership Development. Passionate about helping and empowering individuals, teams and organisations to be the best that they can be, he has been a change agent for the likes of ASOS, Net-a-porter, Rightmove, JustGiving and, more recently, Treatwell.

Barry Frost

CTO at The Room

Barry has 20 years of experience building high-traffic websites and services, and leading cross-functional, product engineering teams in startups, fast-growth SMEs and global companies. Previously he was CTO of Gumtree UK and a director of eBay, Inc. and CTO of a white-label SaaS platform.

Johnny Ray Austin

CTO at Till

Johnny is an experienced hands-on engineering executive focused on shipping world-class products. He has built and led high-performing, globally-distributed engineering teams and is a strong advocate for engineering operational excellence. Johnny is also an international public speaker - speaking on topics such as engineering leadership, system design, and the JavaScript programming language.

Charlie Berg

Fractional CTO

Senior serial entrepreneur & tech exec. 20+ startups over 40+ years, 7 exits, most recently in 2019. Specializes in healthcare, energy/utilities, ecomm, IoT. Was a professional musician for 40 years, toured and recorded with artists such as David Byrne (Talking Heads), members of Sun Ra Arkestra, Klezmatics, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Uri Caine, Don Byron, etc.

Peter Buckingham

Director R&D at VMware

Peter has more than 20 years of experience in building new technology and taking it to market. Prior to Bitfusion's acquisition by VMware, Peter was its VP of Engineering, owning the Flexdirect Platform and leading Solution Architects, QA and DevOps. Peter has contributed to ground breaking technology that helped change the industry, driving the GPU Computing revolution through work on CUDA and supporting the Tesla Business Unit at NVIDIA. He has also held senior technical leadership positions at companies such as Sun Microsystems and Dell. Before Bitfusion, Peter was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Waypoint, a company building a SaaS solution for analytics and workflow targeted at the Commercial Real Estate market.

Reuben Sutton

Head of Engineering at Plandek

Reuben has over a decade of experience leading high-performing engineering teams, he currently leads the engineering team at Software Delivery analytics company Plandek. In his role, he focuses on helping to make teams become more high-performing through data.

Pau Minoves

CTO at Typeform

Pau Minoves is a tech leader with a passion for scaling up high performance teams. Currently CTO at Typeform, Pau has been helping organizations manage success in domains as diverse as electronic voting, media and M&A operations.

Amanda Kabak

CTO/Principal Architect

Amanda Kabak has been in the software industry for over twenty years with a focus on architecture and process best practices. For most of the last decade, Amanda has built teams and software for cloud-native applications focused on industrial IoT and the interaction of software with the built environment.

Bela Labovitch

Vice President of Engineering at athenaHealth

Bela Labovitch is a passionate technologist and engineering leader whose career in software spans many decades. She is currently a Vice President of Engineering at athenaHealth, a healthcare technology company that aspires to create a thriving ecosystem that provides accessible, high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all. She has held a variety of positions – CTO, VP, Architect and developer at companies that range from start-ups to larger enterprises. Bela has a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Brandeis University.

Julie Hendry

VP of Engineering

Julie Hendry, ex-VP Global Engineering at Abcam, is a paleo-software engineer, Agilist, ADHD’er and psychologist. Specialising in big Agile for more than a decade, people over process evangelist.

Michael Stahnke

Vice President, Platform at CircleCI

Michael Stahnke is VP Platform at CircleCI running SRE, Security, and tooling. Prior to this, he worked at Puppet running Puppet Enterprise Engineering, Platform Engineering as well as SRE. He is an established author where he has co-authored State of DevOps Reports and State of Software Delivery. He is also a popular speaker and has attended various DevOps Days, CTO Summits, Puppetize conferences and more. He founded the package repository EPEL and wrote a book on SSH in 2005.

Nicole Ruszkowski

Senior Delivery Manager at Checkout.com

Nicole is an agile delivery professional who is passionate about building and scaling high-performing teams. With over 10 years of experience in e-commerce, Nicole was a key member of the team that brought the world Amazon Prime Video and its predecessor LOVEFiLM by Post. She is leveraging this experience in the FinTech industry in her role as a Senior Delivery Manager at Checkout.com. 

Georgina Owens

Chief Product and Technology Officer at LifesBackup

Award winning executive leader who drives technology transformation to deliver business value and great customer experience. Board advisor, start-up mentor and network influencer and collaborator.

Steve Pereira

Founder at Visible Value Stream Consulting

Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value. For the past 20 years, his focus has been on using collaborative mapping techniques to guide ambitious and struggling teams towards their true north.

Devon North

Transformation Director

Devon is a Technology Leader who has experience working as VP of Engineering, Head of Transformation and a number of other roles. She has delivered programs & products across Media, Retail, Finance, Motor and Utilities typically on large global projects with distributed teams. Devon is focussed on delivering value and is happy sat at the vision & strategy level, building Roadmaps to deliver against, whilst aligning OKRs. Defining engineering in line with strategy, budget and business operating model.

Anna Dick

CTO at Hiring Hub

Beginning within the frenetic world of digital agencies, Anna joined Moneysupermarket in 2006. The pursuit of technical progress within a fast-growth environment suited Anna, who found similar homes at OTB & Hotels4u, building tech teams that continuously challenged ways of working and delivered great outcomes. Anna worked on large transformation and digital projects for the BBC & Co-op, before being headhunted by Hiring Hub where she is now CTO.