Speakers

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  An Over-Engineering Disaster with Macaroons

  Tess Rinearson @_tessr

  Tess Rinearson is a software engineer at Chain, where she works on Chain Core, an open source, enterprise-grade blockchain. Previously, Tess was a full-stack engineer at Medium, where she helped build the social graph service and other infrastructure. She studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University.

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  Introduction to Modern Data Science with Go

  Sam Kreter @samkreter

  Sam Kreter is a software engineer at Microsoft working on the Cloud Native Compute Team. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Geospatial Intelligence, based out of the University of Missouri, building real-time video tracking software. He is obsessed with Go and loves bringing it into any project possible.

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  Unit Testing: Tips from the Trenches

  Michael Sorens

  Michael Sorens, a software engineer at Chef Software, is passionate about the craft of software design and development--and sharing that passion. He has over 100 published articles and wallcharts, 4 open-source projects, over 22K reputation on StackOverflow, and has taught/presented both inside and outside the workplace. He has worked in over 2 dozen languages, so brings a unique background to understanding the Go ecosystem. His favorite project to date: designing and implementing the world's smallest word processor, where the medium was silicon, the printer 'head' was a laser, and the Declaration of Independence literally fit on the head of a pin.

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  Using Reflection to implement enumerated types

  Jeffrey Richter @JeffRichter

  Jeffrey Richter is an Azure Software Architect and authored several best-selling Windows & .NET programming books as well as many MSDN magazine articles. He is also a co-founder of Wintellect, a software consulting and training company where he has authored many videos available on WintellectNOW.

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  SQLite and Go

  David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw

  David Crawshaw is a software engineer. Until recently he worked at Google on the Go programming language. He is currently working on something new.

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  A Rubyist’s (poignant) guide to Go

  Hsing-Hui Hsu @SoManyHs

  Hsing-Hui is a Gopher by day and Rubyist by night. She is an alum of the first cohort of Ada Developers Academy and currently works as an open source maintainer. She likes learning languages (both computer and human), cleaning up code, and petting all the good doggos.

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  Go in the Envoy Ecosystem

  Jose Niño @junr03

  Jose is the lead for Dev Tooling and Configuration on the Networking team at Lyft. During the nearly two years he's been at Lyft, Jose has been instrumental in creating systems to scale configuration of Lyft's Envoy production environment for increasingly large deployments and engineering orgs. He has worked as an open source Envoy maintainer, and he has nurtured Envoy's growing community. More recently, Jose has moved on to scaling Lyft's network load tolerance systems. Jose has spoken about Envoy and other related topics at several venues, most recently at Kubecon EU 2018.

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  Go idioms discovered building a system package manager

  Stephen McQuay @smcquay

  Stephen studied mechanical engineering where he fell in love with coaxing computers to help him solve problems. He has spent the past five years building distributed systems and infrastructure software. He enjoys making music, playing (and typically losing) the game of Go, and hiking with his children.

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  Tracing Go

  Jaana Burcu Dogan @rakyll

  Jaana B. Dogan is working on OpenCensus, an instrumentation framework for distributed systems, at Google. Previously, she worked on Go and has a decade-long experience in building developer platforms and tools.

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  We Are 3000 Years Behind: Let's Talk About Engineering Ethics

  Hayley Denbraver @hayleydenb

  Hayley Denbraver is a web developer in San Diego, California. She is a career switcher who used to work as a licensed civil engineer. Her civil engineering projects included working on a hotel near Disneyland (It is awesome!) and anchoring air conditioners to hospital roofs (They are awesome too!). As a civil engineer she had a stamp with her name on it, but as a web developer you can find her name by using git blame. Hayley is an avid contributor to her company's #cute-animals slack channel. The best part of her job includes helping to onboard new, internally trained devs. She is a member of a two developer household, which you should consider before accepting her dinner party invitation. Hayley's 2018 stretch goal is to acquire a golden retriever--name suggestions are welcome.

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  Implementing ping(8) in Go

  Gavin Chun Jin @GavinGastown3

  Gavin Chun Jin is a software developer turned devops engineer. He programs mostly in Python & Go. His interests are in cryptography, philosophy & trail running. Once, he beat Ben Gibbard (lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie) - in an ultra-marathon.

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  Code Generation: Go's Secret Weapon

  Katrina Ellison Geltman katrina

  Katrina is a software engineer at cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean, where her team creates tools for building and interacting with virtual machines. In her spare time, she likes skiing and hiking.

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  Probabilistic Data Structures Using Go

  Jayapriya Surendran @jayapriya90

  Jayapriya Surendran is a Software Engineer at Cloudflare currently building web services using Go. Prior to Cloudflare, Jayapriya worked at Athenahealth, One Kings Lane, and Uber. She is passionate about Large Scale Distributed Systems and enjoys reading, running and traveling during her free time.

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  Go 1.11 and beyond

  Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz

  Brad Fitzpatrick is a software engineer at Google working on the Go programming language. He’s a hacker probably best known for LiveJournal, memcached, Perkeep (née Camlistore), and OpenID.