Darrel Miller

Microsoft

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Oracle

Emmanuel has been working on delivering APIs for customers for over a decade and is a passionate member of the API Community. The last three years he has been crafting API tooling as part of Apiary, recently acquired by Oracle. Currently, he is heading up Product Management for Oracle’s API Platform, a full lifecycle suite of products for API Providers and Consumers. He is also the organizer for the API Craft San Francisco Meetup Group with over 1,000 members. @manp

Erin McKean – Program Chair

IBM

Kin Lane – Marketing Chair

Lorinda Brandon

Capital One

Steven Willmott

Red Hat

Tim Burks

Google

Amy Palamountain

GitHub

Ash Hathaway

Pivotal

Ash works at Pivotal in NYC as an Engagement Director. Previous to Pivotal she lived and worked in Austin on the IBM Watson Developer Cloud as a Senior PM and Dev Evangelist for their API product offering. She’s passionate about systems thinking and the use of technology to enable human connection and has yet to meet a dog she didn’t like.

Carly Thelander

MilkRun

Carly is a Software Engineer for MilkRun, passionate about functional programming and startups. She loves reading good books and traveling the world.

David Biesack

Apiture

David Biesack is VP of API Platforms and Lead API Architect at Apiture. Prior to joining Apiture in 2017, David spent 5 years as Principal API Architect and head of the API Center of Excellence at SAS. David is interested in whatever makes software [development|developers] better, stronger, faster.

Gail Frederick

VP, Mobile & Developer Ecosystem, GM of eBay Portland

Gail Frederick’s expertise includes two decades of software development and architecture leadership inside venture-backed startups and Fortune 500s. She is currently VP of Mobile and Developer Ecosystem at eBay, and GM of eBay’s Portland office. As eBay’s mobile technology leader, Gail and her mobile architects obsess about reliability and performance of eBay apps across their global user base. As the leader of the eBay Developers Program, Gail is hyper-focused on making eBay integration easier for third-party developers. She delivered and continues to expand a new generation of buying and selling APIs that enable smoother, more seamless buying and selling experiences for consumers and businesses. In prior roles at eBay, Gail was chartered with streamlining the company’s web services portfolio through design patterns and architectural standards, focused on multi-screen applications and mobility. Before her time at eBay, Gail served as a director for Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, the heart of Linux at Intel. Before Intel, Gail held technology leadership roles at several Seattle start-ups. In 2005, she was the first engineering hire at Medio Systems, a mobile search and analytics start-up that was acquired by Nokia and subsequently HERE Technologies. Gail has been writing mobile apps since the very first app-enabled Nokia mobile phones. Her treatise on standards-based mobile web development entitled “Beginning Smartphone Web Development” was published by Apress in December 2009. Gail holds bachelor and master’s degrees in Computer Science from The University of Michigan and The University of Washington, respectively. When not at work, Gail is a mother to school-age twins and calls Portland, Oregon home. She is an avid hiker and kayaker, especially around the lakes and rivers of rural central Oregon. Favorite eBay experience: Gail’s family refers to her as “the queen of small packages” because she’s always buying yarn and craft supplies on eBay to fuel her knitting and sewing hobbies. Sheis also an active consumer seller on eBay and hopes to achieve Top-Rated Seller status in 2019.

George Atala

Quantero Capital

George is a product manager and long-time API advocate. He previously managed API products in higher education and FinTech, and loves to explore how APIs are leveling the playing field in the financial industry. He lives in Berkeley, but hikes everywhere.

Glenn Block

Auth0

Gregory Koberger

ReadMe

James Higginbotham

LaunchAny

James Higginbotham is an Executive API Consultant with experience in API strategy, software architecture, and training teams in API and microservice design. James guides enterprises through their digital transformation journey, ensuring alignment between business and technology through product-based thinking to deliver a great customer experience. James has published several titles, including his latest book, "A Practical Approach to API Design".

Jennifer Riggins

the eBranding Ninja

Currently based in London, Jennifer tells and markets the stories where tech and culture converge, and the world hopefully changes for the better.

Joey French

Intrinio

Joey French is the Co-Founder and President of Intrinio, a disruptive financial data marketplace launched in 2015. He is an advanced back-end web developer, with competency in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), Ruby, HAML/HTML5, Coffeescript/Javascript and PostgreSQL. Joey graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Master of Accountancy and is a CPA in Florida. With this combination of skills, Joey is the driving architect of Intrinio’s data structure and platform, enabling access to a plethora of detailed financial data that has traditionally been restricted to an elite minority of users who could afford the legacy expensive and restrictive data feeds.

Kirsten Hunter

Akami

Kirsten Hunter is a passionate API evangelist with a soft spot for IoT, mashups and a crazy great developer experience. She is curious, creative and consistently excels at developer support. As a speaker, she is dynamic, engaging and inspiring. She has several courses available on Lynda.com and tries to remember to blog at https://princesspolymath.com periodically.

Kyle Dallaire

Capital One Digital

Kyle leads the technical writing team in the Capital One Digital organization. Her team is responsible for content on the external DevExchange platform (https://developer.capitalone.com) and on Capital One’s internal data platform. Her main focus as a technical writer is to be a fierce advocate for users – giving them what they need when and where they need it. She’s a particular fan of documenting APIs, because let’s face it: without documentation there’s really no there there. Kyle joined Capital One in 2015 after many years documenting developer-facing tools, getting a thorough education in good software practices from her patient colleagues, and learning just enough Java to be dangerous. She lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband in a house they are *still* working on four years later, and has three grown daughters and a rambunctious lab mutt named Riker (after the Commander, not the prison). She’s also a newly-minted vinyasa yoga teacher always in search of willing students. Find her on Twitter, where she’s more of a reader than a tweeter: @KyleDallaire

Melissa Jurkoic

Amadeus Hospitality

Melissa Jurkoic is currently a Senior Solutions Architect for Amadeus Hospitality where she and her team operate at the intersection of business and technology to support enterprise clients in realizing their strategic objectives. With over two decades’ experience as a technologist, her mix of technical savvy and business strategy is unique for a former software engineer. Melissa’s fusion of technology and conversational techniques connect with both technical and business audiences to lead strategic initiatives to the best outcomes. Melissa earned her BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, holds an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is currently a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4). Extremely passionate about making a positive impact on the decline of women in STEM education and careers, she volunteers with several committees in the Northeast region to educate and encourage women and girls to pursue careers in technology. Melissa has always lived in the Northeast and now makes her home in Newmarket, New Hampshire with her family.

Phil Sturgeon

WeWork

Phil Sturgeon has been building APIs professionally since 2010. He’s worked as a freelancer, consultant, Head of API, and CTO for several API-centric technology startups. He published [Build APIs You Won't Hate](https://apisyouwonthate.com/), and the Slack channel that grew from it has become home to the largest API chat group on the internet. Phil is currently working as an API consultant at WeWork.

Sai Vennam

IBM

Sai Vennam is a Developer Advocate at IBM with expertise on Node.js, Go, APIs and various platforms like IBM Cloud, Heroku and Azure. He enjoys creating developer-friendly content and samples to showcase the latest and greatest cloud technology. As a hobby, he works on his home automation using Raspberry Pis and serverless technology. His other interests include cooking Indian food, playing guitar, and going to music festivals.

Shelby Switzer

Healthify

Software engineer, public speaker, and veteran nomad, Shelby has dedicated herself to community work and civic hacking across four continents. She is obsessed with APIs, language, and connectivity, and has led API design, development, and consumption projects in a variety of industries, from citizen engagement to the Internet of Things. She is currently the Head of Integrations at Healthify, a software company bridging the gap between healthcare and social services. When not coding or debating the finer points of REST, she can be found exploring small towns or reading a book.

Skip Hovsmith

Critical Blue

Taylor Barnett

Stoplight

Taylor Barnett leads developer relations and the open source community at Stoplight. Previously, Taylor led developer community, documentation, and SDKs at Keen. She has spoken on developer experience, SDKs, OpenAPI, developer empathy, and building communities at conferences such as O'Reilly OSCON, GlueCon, multiple API Strategy & Practices, API the Docs, AlterConf, DevRelCon, and DevXcon.

Tessa Mero

Cisco

Tessa Mero is a Developer Evangelist for Cisco DevNet. She enjoys running events involving the PHP and API community. In the past, she has contributed to a leadership team for the Joomla! Projector 5 years, including the board of directors, leading the production team, as well as evangelizing Joomla as a public speaker. She also is an avid career mentor and has helped countless developers become successful. On her free time, she likes to play video games, learn new tech, go camping, and eat Korean food.

Yina Arenas

Microsoft Graph

Yina leads engineering for Microsoft Graph, one of the highest-profile engineering projects at Microsoft, taking Microsoft APIs from disjointed, legacy technologies to a brand new unified API world. During her career at Microsoft, she has been building the platform that enables an ecosystem of developers to build applications that access data and relationships across Office and all Microsoft cloud services. She is from Bogota, Colombia and joined Microsoft in 2010 after graduating with a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia. She lives in Seattle with her husband and 3 energetic sons and actively participates in activities that grow, retain and empower women in technology. Find her on Twitter: @yina_arenas.