This year's GopherCon UK speakers
Speakers
GopherCon UK features global speakers who deliver cutting-edge content on Go programming and related technologies to keep attendees at the forefront of the field.
Adam’s journey into software development began like many others - writing code in a web-based text editor on a shared hosting account for fun. After completing a few learn-to-programme books, he could build “literally anything” (in his head at least). Only once he’d landed his first role in a team of actual professionals did the merciless reality check set in! Over the last 10 years, he’s enjoyed migrating legacy applications to Go, leading an engineering team responsible for managing at-scale mission-critical systems, supporting Webby Award-winning apps, and mentoring others on their own developer journeys. Away from a keyboard that makes code, you'll find him at a keyboard that makes music - writing songs, and recording piano medleys of AFC Bournemouth football chants to the amusement of his 3-year old daughter.
Andrew Williams has over 20 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages and has been a core developer in large open source projects such as Enlightenment, EFL, Maven and Fyne. He has been a founding member of many startups including Scotland’s largest mobile apps agency. Since 2018 he has been focused on Go development and is working hard to apply the high quality design principles of mobile app development to cross-platform applications. Andrew is the author of "Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne" and "Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go" and is also the founder of the Fyne toolkit demonstrated in this presentation.
I originally studied Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Soon after I found my true passion for building simple, scalable, and secure software solutions. Nowadays, I am a Senior Software Engineer @ Luno where I am the technical oversight for all our onboarding, payments, and acquisition pods 🚀
Arianna Vespri
Arianna Vespri is a Go developer with a background in the music industry. Passionate about monitoring and observability, is a Prometheus contributor. Active as an electronic musician for decades under a pseudonym, is very familiar with public performance and is used to speak in front of an audience.
Arti Phugat
Cloudflare
Arti Phugat is an experienced software Engineer, building large scale, highly-available distributed systems at Cloudflare. With over 10 years of experience writing code in C, C++, Erlang, Python and now Go. She has worked for both big companies such as Vonage, and Cloudflare and fast paced startups.
Originally from Northumberland I now live in London and work as a principal software engineer for the BBC. Outside of work I organise the London Go Study Group meet-up, enjoy music and video games, and I live on a boat with a small dog.
Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly scalable storage for metrics, logs and traces. After first getting into programming as a kid, creating a video game called "Splat", Bryan's career has ranged from charting pie sales at a bakery to real-time pricing of billion-dollar bond trades. A contributor to many Open Source projects since 1988, Bryan is a member of the Prometheus team and previous maintainer of CNCF Cortex and CNI projects. Outside of work he is a father, a helicopter pilot, and can cook a mean risotto primavera.
Bartek Płotka is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. SWE by heart, with an SRE background, currently working on Cloud Observability. Previously Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Author of "Efficient Go" book with O'Reilly. As the co-founder of the CNCF Thanos project and core maintainer of various open-source projects, including Prometheus, he enjoys building OSS communities and maintainable, reliable distributed systems, ideally in Go. CNCF TAG Observability Technical Lead.
Cameron is a product manager and the product lead for Go at Google. Before Go, Cameron led Google Cloud's programming languages support and integrations and, before Google, he led a high frequency market making firm where he built low latency trading systems in C and C++. He likes Go more.
Daniela Petruzalek is an experienced IT professional with background in software engineering, consulting, pre-sales and developer relations, currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase. Her specialisation is data engineering and back end development and she is recognised by Google as a Google Developer Expert in Go and Google Cloud Platform. She's also a Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer, Oracle Certified Professional and TEDx speaker. On her spare time she contributes to open source, plays video games and pets random cats on the streets.
Edson Ticona Zegarra
Solaris
Software engineer based in Berlin with 5 years of experience in the fintech industry. With hands-on expertise in designing and implementing scalable serverless solutions.
Presenter of Go, Ruby, and JavaScript oddities. Author of A Go Developer's Notebook. Digital identity researcher. Caster of polygonal dice. Builder of machines. Eternal procrastinator.
Fernando J. Villamarin Diaz
JPMC
Fernando is a software engineer who specializes in Go, building microservices at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He's also keen on Machine Learning and Cloud technologies, always looking for new ways to apply them in his projects.
Gari Singh
Gari Singh is a Product Manager at Google Cloud focused on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He spends a majority of his time promoting containers, Kubernetes and GKE and works with multiple GKE customers across all industries.
George is VP of Engineering at loveholidays, where he's been since August 2019. Before that he held engineering positions at DRW, Forward Internet Group, ThoughtWorks and others.
George Wilson
Paddle
George is an accomplished software engineer and leader based in London. He is the Engineering Manager for payments at Paddle, and before this he was Engineering Manager for insurance systems at Cuvva.
Grant Stephens
Fastly
Currently Logging at Fastly, ex Ravelin, Edited, HealthQ. He was also a mechanic on the Dakar rally.
I'm an Open Source and software development enthusiast. I love writing code and contributing to Open Source projects. I have the privilege of being one of the starters or contributors in some interesting Open Source projects like Taiga, Penpot, Mattermost, or Focalboard.
Liam is a Senior Cloud Advocate and Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Developer Tools. He is passionate about Security, DevOps, automation and Go. He loves sharing his knowledge and creating simple and concise content for others to learn from. When he is not writing code in the office, he is writing it on a beach as he spends a lot of his time traveling around the globe, building communities and meeting new people.
London based Mark Bradley works as a Senior Consulting Engineer for Armakuni, helping companies adopt Cloud Native technologies, practises and principles. Working in the industry for over 10 years, Mark has developed a passion and a wealth of knowledge in how to support software teams to be elite functions. He honed these skills during previous roles mentoring peers and leading apprentice programmes, alongside his day job.
Matthew Boyle is an experienced technical leader in the field of distributed systems, specializing in using Go. He has worked at huge companies such as Cloudflare and General Electric, as well as exciting high-growth startups such as Curve and Crowdcube. Matt has been writing Go for production since 2018 and often shares blog posts and fun trivia about Go over on Twitter.
Michael Pratt
Michael is a Staff Software Engineer on the Go team at Google, working on the Go compiler and runtime with a focus on application performance.
Peter Chai
Aviva
I'm a software engineer by trade, currently leading the Cloud Engineering team at Aviva Zero. I've explored the software engineering landscape from managing Apache web servers to building on-premise Java Spring Boot Microservices. Currently, I'm focussed on creating cloud native solutions in AWS using Go.
Independent developer. In the past I have worked for Google in senior SRE and SWE positions.
Traveller, Speaker, Engineer simplifying technology. Build, Value, Repeat.
Sam Burns
Sam Burns is a development consultant, software architect, and application security researcher.
Shivam Acharya
Aviva
I’m a software engineer in a platform and security team at Aviva. I’ve worked with Go, Python and C++ throughout my career, building software and systems across various financial services domains, from low-level systems engineering to quantitative development, and nowadays, developing cloud-based serverless systems.