Yao Yue is the creator and a maintainer of Pelikan, a unified cache framework for building servers, proxies, and clients used in distributed caches. This project was the culmination of her knowledge about caching, which she obtained when working on and later leading the Cache team at Twitter for the better part of 2010s. Besides Pelikan, Yao has coauthored several academic papers on caching published in OSDI, NSDI, and FAST, as well as many talks. In recent years, she has ventured into the world of (distributed) systems performance and optimization. She co-founded IOP Systems, a company aimed to improve software efficiency and reduce cost, with her teammates from Twitter.

After 10 years in healthcare management, a ride with Kara Swisher inspired Farrah to leap into tech. She has worked at many startups, eventually working her way to being the Head of Modern Compute Community at AWS. Farrah's passions are technology and connecting with and to people. She personifies the openness and welcoming attitude of the community as both a community member and a leader. Her superpower is being vulnerable and she works hard to champion others and to bridge gaps wherever she can find them.

Manju leads two groups: Machine Learning Enablement and Personalization Engine. Manju is a customer-focused and product-centric leader and, over his seven-year tenure at Etsy, has led multiple groups from Search & Machine Learning, Ads, Recommendation, Knowledge Base, and Core Buyer Experiences. Prior to Etsy, Manju was the Co-founder and CTO of Blackbird AI, a search and deep learning company, which Etsy acquired. In addition, Manju was part of Twitter’s early engineering and led the building and scaling of caching systems as Twitter grew from 50M to 200M active users. At Twitter, much of the caching software he built to address Twitter scale was open sourced. Two popular open-source systems — twemproxy and twemcache — are still actively used in the industry to build scalable distributed caching. Manju has a graduate degree in computer science from Stanford with a specialization in systems and algorithms.

Tom Delorenzi is in charge of all mobile development for ZigZaGame's platform, including frontend and backend engineering. Tom has worked in the Gaming industry since 2010 and the earliest days of mobile game development for iPhones and iPads and flash entertainment titles.

Shingo Yoshida is renowned as a driving force behind the serverless movement in Japan and has a long histroy in tech- utilizing his vast expertise in performance tuning, enterprise architecture, and big data to power digital transformation for companies the world over.