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Check out the 4 day conference schedule
There are 12 tracks about AI, Cloud, Blockchain Science Tech, Web and more. The schedule has 200+ sessions from speakers around the world.
Topics and Tracks
Personal Voice Assistants and Artificial Intelligence
Learn about natural language processing, how to build skills and actions for voice assistants or how to create your own Open Source chatbots in the Artificial Intelligence deep technology track. Join sessions covering Bot Framework, Tensorflow, Dataprep and more.
Cloud, Container, DevOps
Get better insights in how to deploy apps on the cloud more efficiently and save your company money. Sessions in the Cloud, Container, DevOps track cover Kubernetes, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, Docker Kompose, Omnibus, OpenStack, Virtual Kubelet, and Continuous Integration.
Blockchain
Meet developers and startups working on the blockchain to create solutions for distributed computing, cloud services and Fintech in the Blockchain track.
Cybersecurity
Find out how to keep your services secure in the Cybersecurity track. The track has sessions about Encryption with PGP, SELinux, Secrets Management, Backups, QubesOS, Securing Web and Javascript apps.
Web & Mobile
What technologies will we need for the Conversational Web? How will existing technologies change and what else is happening in tech for web and mobile platforms? A wide variety of topics are covered in the Web and Mobile track with talks and workshops about JS frameworks, PWA, Android, Web VR and AR.
Hardware, Science, Design and Local Production
The FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit covers topics from software to hardware and knowledge. These are the ingredients for local production. We have a dedicated track on Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging.
Open Data, Internet Society, Community
More and more governments, companies and citizens share data for the benefit of the society. What are the use cases for Open data? What possibilities do we have for a truly free society in the times of tracking devices and supervision technologies, how to keep communities engaged in Free and Open Source development? These are some of the questions in the Open Data, Internet Society, and Community track.
Database
Meet developers of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Spark, MariaDB and NoSQL projects and learn how to save your company money with Open Source database solutions in the Database track. Specific topics include Scaling TB of data, Real-time data masking, Replication Features, Performance Schema, BigQuery, and Immutable Key-Value Stores.
Kernel & Platform
The Kernel & Platform track covers topics from the Linux Kernel to BSD and desktop systems such as Meilix or applications like VLC. Learn about BSD network servers, Hacking with x86 Windows Tablets, Asynchronous integration of GPU computing with HPX many task processing, Unikernelized Linux, Open Build Service in Debian, and Learn C from the trenches.
Science Tech and Education
Science needs to be open and verifiable. As more and more tools are available to a larger part of the population the chance to become a scientist or simply to participate in citizen science increases. What tools exist? What hardware is available? How to do science hands-on with Open Source software and hardware? The Science Tech and Education track covers it.
Open Event Solutions
Open Event Conf covers topics to run your event entirely with Free/Open Source. FOSSASIA develops its own solutions hosted at Eventyay.com . What is the status and what are the next steps to make it end consumer ready? How can contributors join the development and what are the opportunities?
UNESCO Open Science and Open Data Hackathon
In the UNESCO Hackathon developers, designers, tech contributors, bloggers, and journalists join in to develop Open Data apps and games for sustainable development.
Featured Speakers
Vlado Koljibabic
Head of CASE IT at Daimler AGVlado leads IT for the new CASE business unit. He delivers digital channels for CASE and runs major projects in the manner of services for e-mobility and customer centricity. CASE stands for Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric..
Kaz Sato
Developer Advocate at GoogleKaz is Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud focusing on Machine Learning and Data Analytics products, such as TensorFlow, Cloud ML and BigQuery. He is supporting developer communities for Google Cloud for over 8 years and is also interested in hardware and IoT.
Chris Aniszczyk
Cloud Native Computing FoundationChris is currently a VP at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.
Michael Christen
SUSI.AIMichael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search engine technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also the architect of the German Digital Library search portal.
Ramji Venkateswaran
Global Head of Cloud Ecosystem at J.P. MorganRamji an experienced leader in the financial technology industry known for creating teams and culture that focus on pragmatic technical excellence and thought leadership, whilst maintaining obsessive focus on business goals.
Douglas Gray
Senior Vice President, Engineering at IndeedDoug defines the organizational and development processes for the engineering team as a member of Indeed’s senior leadership team. His areas of expertise include product revitalization, process change and team development. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Liang Moung
Head of Digital Technology at Singapore Press HoldingsLiang leads a high performing engineering team to develop and support the various websites and mobile applications for SPH’s flagship news brands, including The Straits Times, and Lianhe Zaobao. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford.
Dr Graham Williams
Data Science Director at MicrosoftGraham is as a practitioner and researcher in areas of health, banking, insurance, finance, taxation, immigration, and many more. He has lead projects in data mining since the 1980’s. He was previously a Lead Data Scientist with the Australian Government.
Bunnie Huang
Chibitronics PTE LTDBunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (teaching electronics through arts and crafts), and Novena (DIY laptop).
Carsten Haitzler
Samsung ElectronicsHe is also known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager and its libraries. Since 2010 he has been working on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen.
Frank Karlitschek
NextcloudFrank is the Founder and Managing Director at Nextcloud. He also founded the ownCloud project in 2010 to return control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. Frank is also a KDE contributor since 2001.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
VLC/VideolanJean-Baptiste is the President of VideoLAN and VLC Lead Developer. Since 2005 he works VideoLAN projects, including VLC for desktop, the relicensing of libVLC, the ports to mobile operating systems, and various multimedia libraries.
Jonas von Malottki
Senior Manager Finance at DaimlerJonas is shaping the Blockchain and DLT activities from the technology perspective within Daimler. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Japanese Studies from University of Bonn. Main focus topics were Metadata and Data Quality as well as Neural Networks. He is a member of the Governing Board of Hyperledger.
Chris Van Tuin
Red HatChris is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat. He has 20+ years of experience in Sales Engineering and Services at Red Hat, Intel, Loudcloud, and Linux startups.
Exhibition Program
March 22 - 24, 2018
Lifelong Learning Institute, Exhibition Halls, Floor 1
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Thursday, March 22, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Exhibition, Career Fair, VIP Tour
12:00 PM Exhibition & Career Fair Doors Open
12:15 PM Welcome Snacks
3:30 PM VIP Tour at Exhibition
3:30 PM Career Booth Crawl
6:00 PM Exhibition Doors Close -
Friday, March 23, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Exhibition, Business Lunch and Afternoon Booth Tour
9:30 AM Exhibitors Breakfast Snacks
10:00 AM Exhibition Doors Open
6:00 Exhibition Doors Close -
Saturday, March 24, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Exhibition, Young Developers Booth Tour
9:30 AM Exhibitors Breakfast Snacks
10:00 AM Exhibition Doors Open
10:30 AM Young Developers Booth Tour
6:00 PM Exhibition Ends -
Sunday, March 25, 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM After-Exhibition with Community Showcases
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM Foyer Showcases of Open Source Projects
Conference Program
March 22 - 25 (+26), 2018
Lifelong Learning Institute, Event Halls Floor 1, 2, 4
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Thursday, March 22, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Conference Opening with VIP guests
1:00 PM Conference Opening
3:15 PM CodeHeat Award Ceremony
3:40 PM Coffee Break Followed by Exhibition Visit -
Friday, March 23, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Keynotes, Business and Technology Tracks, CodeHeat Award
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Cloud Training Day Workshop (with Certificate)
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Keynote Sessions, Business and Technology Tracks
6:00 PM Sessions End -
Saturday, March 24, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Keynotes, Business and Technology Tracks, Young Developers Day, Group Photo, UNESCO Hackathon
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Keynotes, Business and Technology Tracks, Young Developers Day
12:00 PM Conference Group Photo
2:00 PM UNESCO Hackathon Starts
7:00 PM Sessions End
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Sunday, March 25, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Business and Technology Tracks, Workshops, UNESCO Hackathon
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Business and Technology Tracks, Workshops
3:00 PM Presentation of UNESCO Hackathon Outcome
4:30 PM Hackathon Award Ceremony
5:00 PM Summit Closing Session
5:30 PM Event Ends -
Monday, March 26, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM After-Event Workshops: SUSI.AI, Open Event, Pocket Science Lab
9:30 Welcome Breakfast and Intro
10:00 AM Workshops start in dedicated rooms
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Workshops Continue
5:00 PM Workshops Close
Social Events Program
March 21 - 25, 2018
Singapore City
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Wednesday, March 21, 3:00 PM-10:00 PM FOSSASIA Meet & Greet
Join the FOSSASIA Speakers and Attendees Meet & Greet, meet the local tech scene, explore Singapore in a Culture and Exploration Afternoon, and enjoy the taste of Asia at a local dinner at Lau Pa Sat.
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Thursday, March 22, 7:30 PM Welcome Get Together
7:30 PM Tech Gathering with Speakers and Exhibitors
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Friday, March 23, 7:30 PM Chinatown Snacks and Clarke Quay Pub Crawl
7:30 PM Let's meet up in Chinatown for Snacks and have a Clarke Quay Pub Crawl
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Saturday, March 24, 7:30 PM Social Evening Event with Live Music and Cultural Program
7:30 PM Please join us for a Social Event with Live Music and Cultural Highlights (Business Partners, Speakers Reception, Social Event Ticket Passes)
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Sunday, March 25, 7:30 PM Dim Sums and Midnight Hacks
7:30 PM After-Event Dim Sum and Midnight City Hack Lounge
UNESCO Hackathon on Saturday March 24/Sunday March 25
Developers, designers, tech contributors, bloggers, and journalists participate in the UNESCO Hackathon! Awesome prizes are waiting for you! Tickets are free. Number of registrants is limited.
Hackathon Website Tickets
Want to talk to participants of the UNESCO Hackathon? Get in touch on the chat channel (Github login required).
Young Developers Day
The Young Developers Day will take place on Saturday, March 24. Here students will learn about coding, visit booths and connect with companies and Open Source projects. In the exhibition area you can join hands-on workshops. Get your Saturday student ticket now for only 12 SGD! (Up to 18 Years Old accompanied by one guardian.)
Get TicketsSpeakers
Stephanie Taylor is a program manager at Google working in the Open Source Programs Office. She
works on the outreach team managing the Google Code-in program for pre-university students
and helping the team with the Google Summer of Code program.
Ronald is currently managing an interdisciplinary team of engineers and business experts for eDrive@Vans, a new organizational unit within Daimler AG dedicated to the development of electric distribution vehicles. Before transitioning to Mercedes-Benz VANs, Ronald was heading the North American Fuel Cell Operations of Mercedes-Benz between 2013 and 2016. He relocated to the U.S. from Daimler AG, Germany where he was responsible for managing electric vehicle fleet demonstration projects until 2012. Ronald began his career with Daimler AG in 1996 as a Powertrain Engineer and has since then held various engineering and management positions within the company before moving into the field of powertrain electrification, fuel cell and battery electric vehicles in 2007. He holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and in addition earned an MBA from the European School of Business at Reutlingen University (ESB). Ronald lives in Stuttgart, Germany with his wife and their two kids.
Italo Vignoli is a founder and a member of the Steering Committee of The Document Foundation,
where he oversees marketing and PR. He was a long time member of the OOo community, and the
leader of the Italian group. Italo has been active in high-tech PR and marketing since 1981,
immediately after the launch of the IBM PC. Prior to switching to marketing & PR consulting
in 1987, he has been a marketing executive in one of the largest technology companies worldwide.
Since late 2003, he has been active in marketing open source software. Although he has a
degree in humanities, he has a rather good understanding of technology.
Italo Vignoli is a founder and a member of the Steering Committee of The Document Foundation,
where he oversees marketing and PR. He was a long time member of the OOo community, and the
leader of the Italian group. Italo has been active in high-tech PR and marketing since 1981,
immediately after the launch of the IBM PC. Prior to switching to marketing & PR consulting
in 1987, he has been a marketing executive in one of the largest technology companies worldwide.
Since late 2003, he has been active in marketing open source software. Although he has a
degree in humanities, he has a rather good understanding of technology.
Cat has been involved with the free and Open Source community since the mid 1980s, including stints at Mt Xinu, Sendmail, Inc, and the USENIX Association. Her outreach role in the Open Source Programs Office at Google is like slipping into a warm bath of global FOSS goodness.
Christopher Skene is digital services consultant, specialising in solution design, technical
architecture, UX, and strategic consulting for enterprise and government-grade CMS, web application
and digital publishing projects. He's currently representing "http://Platform.sh", the world's
best Continuous Deployment web hosting PaaS, across the Asia-Pacific region.
Highly skilled Linux/FreeBSD DevOps/SRE and PostgreSQL DBA with over 15 years of experience
Joe Conway is an innovative leader with broad experience in a wide array of disciplines and extensive
international business exposure. He has been involved with the PostgreSQL community since
1998, presently as a PostgreSQL Committer, Major Contributor, and Infrastructure Team member.
He is also the author and maintainer of a PostgreSQL procedural language handler for the
R language, PL/R. Joe is currently VP PostgreSQL Engineering at Crunchy Data Solutions and
a Board Member at the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS).
Michael Downey is the Director of Community for the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Open Source
Center, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center is a collaborative community
promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and co-investment in technology and human capacity
to support positive social change in FOSS communities around the world.
Floyd DCosta is the co-founder of Block Armour and Blockchain. With a background in Management
Consulting, Floyd has over 16 years of international professional experience in setting up
and growing international business practices as well as advising senior clients executives
on decisive topics. His experience includes eleven years at Capgemini and spans a variety
of industry sectors and technology platforms. Based in Singapore, Floyd helps institutions
harness the potential of Blockchain technology for competitive advantage.
Stepan Goncharov is an Android Developer Expert. He is leading Driver Android App development
team at Grab. He is also one of the organizers of Kotlin user groups in Singapore.
Brian Proffitt is the Principal Community Analyst for Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat,
he is responsible for community metrics, onboarding, and support. A former technology journalist,
Brian is also a graduate lecturer at the University of Notre Dam
Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of http://Flowchain.io, an open source based IoT
blockchain solutions. Before Flowchain.io, he has been working on embedded software and full-stack
web development for many years. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology
(DLT) and IoT data security. Jollen holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Information
and Systems from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find him online at http://jollen.org.
Ben Sadeghi is the Data & Artificial Intelligence specialist at Microsoft - Asia Pacific,
providing consulting and implementation services on the Azure cloud platform. Prior to Microsoft,
Ben worked as a data scientist at MapR Technologies, applying data-driven, machine learning
solutions on Hadoop. He has developed internal and external data products at "Wego.com",
a travel meta-search site, and worked in the Internet of Things domain at Jawbone, where
he implemented predictive applications for the UP Band self-quantification platform. Before
moving to the private sector, Ben contributed to several NASA and JAXA space missions. Ben
is an active member of the open-source Julia language community. He holds an "http://M.Sc"
in computational physics, with an astrophysics emphasis.
In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer.
Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the
world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in
ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and
conferences around the world.
Raymond Chan has been a Chapter Lead with DataKind Singapore since 2016. His primary role is
data science advocacy and liaison with the non-profit sector. In practice, he tries his best
to drag non-profits kicking and screaming into the age of data by demonstrating the value
data in creating social impact with DataKind volunteer base. When not doing pro bono data
science or working his day job at Lazada, he enjoys travelling and eating insects.
Alyssa works with Microsoft's Commercial Software Engineering team and is the resident expert
in bots. Featured in VentureBeat as one of the top 100 people to watch in the chatbot space,
she loves working with startups and enterprises across Southeast Asia and bringing their
bots to life (not literally). She is also a part time bubble tea addict, cryptocurrency trader
and student of life.
Gaurang Torvekar is a CTO/Co-Founder Attores. Gaurang will be speaking about Attores' latest
offering, Open Certificates.
William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical
students. He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn. He has been actively involved
in the Maker movement since 2016. Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE
College West. He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital. Graduated
from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical
& Electronic Engineering).
Nan Xiao is a a system software/performance engineer, and has more than 10 years experience in
software architecture & development: from embedded system to server box. He is especially
enthusiastic in technologies related to computer infrastructure, such as Operating System
kernel, concurrent programming, debugging, performance tuning, etc. On top of that, he also
likes to write technical blog posts in my spare time.
Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team of MariaDB
Server in 2009, and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before
joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora "http://OpenOffice.org" rojects. He's well
known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.
Matthew Treinish has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his
career. He has been primarily contributing to OpenStack since 2012 and is a former member
of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and was previously the PTL (project technical lead)
of the OpenStack community's QA program from OpenStack's Juno development cycle in 2014 through
the Mitaka development cycle in 2016. He is a core contributor for several OpenStack projects
and a member of the OpenStack Stable Maintenance Team. Matthew currently works for IBM's
Developer Advocacy team working to make Open Source software better for everyone. He has
previously been a speaker at OpenStack summits, LinuxCons Japan, China, and North America,
Open Source Summit EU, OpenWest, FOSSASIA, PyConAU's OpenStack miniconf.
Director in the Open Source Consulting Practice and a member of the internal blockchain council
at Wipro, he provides global open source and blockchain strategy consulting and advisory
services to Wipro's top customers.
Yue Lin Choong has been coding for 20 years, and still loving it.
Oskari Saarenmaa is the CEO and one of the founders of Aiven, a next-generation managed cloud
services company offering the best Open Source database and messaging products as fully-managed
services to businesses around the world. He has previously founded and managed a couple of
software development agencies and worked as a software architect designing secure, large-scale
database systems.
Ilya Verbitskiy is a software engineer and software development manager in banking, finance and
e-commerce sectors, he has gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development
of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting his own business, he worked
in Europe and North America for several multinational companies. He is the founder of WebStoating
s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. He uses the Agile
approach and Lean Startup methodology to minimize time to market, while paying special attention
to the security and quality of the final product. Cloud computing and e-commerce are his
fields of special interests.
Mai-Hsuan(Kevin) Chia comes from Taiwan. Currently, he is working as a developer in the research
team under Ethereum Foundation, mainly helping with Sharding implementation. I'm interested
in Blockchain, Computer Security, and System programming.
Philip Paeps (known as Trouble) is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium.
He provides research and development on low-level software and operating systems, particularly
in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and
high-performance networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a
variety of networking-related topics. In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer
contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was one of
the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source software conference in Europe,
from the early 2000s until 2015. He denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop
role playing games.
Dr. Asankhaya Sharma is a cyber security expert and technology leader with over a decade of experience
in creating security products for industry, academia and open-source community. He is passionate
about building high performing teams and taking innovative products to market. He is also
an Adjunct Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology.
Robert 'Bob' Reyes is a Mozilla Rep, Reps Mentor, and Tech Speaker based in Makati City, Philippines.
He has been an active contributor to the Mozilla project in the area of localization since
2003. He has been representing the organization in the country since 2011 and has been twice
elected to be part of the global organization's leadership as a council member. Bob is now
part of Mozilla's Tech Speakers group, which aims to Increase developer awareness and adoption
of the Web, Firefox, and Mozilla through a strong community-driven technical speaker development
program. Bob is also a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin and Team Manager for
the grassroots football team SIPFC. He is a dad to Xeon and Haswell.
Masayuki Igawa has been working as a software engineer for over 20 years on a wide range of software
projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization.
He has been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is
a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health
and stackviz. He currently works for HPE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone.
Previously, he had been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open
source related conference events.
Camilo Libedinsky is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of NUS, a principal
investigator at the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), and a joint Principal
Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR. He received his Bachelor
of Science from Universidad de Chile and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.His lab aims to
understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive function at the level of populations
of individual neurons (or circuits), and to apply this knowledge to develop novel neurotechnologies.
Mishari Muqbil has participated in the Open Source community since 1990s. Homeschool Dad.
Preetam Rai is always on the move running community learning events across Asia. He has conducted
education and technology workshop for educators in China, Cambodia, Japan, Oman and Singapore.
Preetam is an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE), and he is often invited to speak about
technology and popular culture trends in Asia.
Matt Ranostay has worked in the Embedded Linux field in various roles for 10+ years at various
companies, including Embedded Alley, Mentor Graphics, Intel's Open Source Technology Center,
and currently at Konsulko Group.
He is known as a negotiator, he can help you achieve your desired results with just 70% of the
time. As a presenter, he is able to captivate the audience in person or remotely (former
preferred) to deliver the message you want to send out. He is also a technologist, a community
builder. Transforming corporate culture. One stubborn mind at a time
Takasu Masakazu, Maker Faire in Shenzhen and Singapore, takes us on a journey to his homeland
of Japan and their exciting ways of using technology, design and science. He is the most
experienced person of Maker Faire in Asia. He is also connected all around Makers, even in
Asia and Japan. His book 'Ecosystem by Makers' is well-known in Japan.
Ria Bhatia is a Program Manager within Microsoft Azure. She is a maintainer of the new open source
project Virtual Kubelet. In tandem with the community of Kubernetes, she is creating and
designing a world where developers don't have to think about the underlying infrastructure
to their applications. Instead they can focus on building containerized apps and deploy them
directly to the cloud. Along with driving progress of Virtual Kubelet in the community, she
is also driving first class "nodeless" experience for customers using AKS, Azure's managed
Kubernetes offering. Ria has spoken at Kubernetes, and Docker meet-ups in San Francisco,
Seattle and Vancouver. She has a youtube channel for developers in the Kubernetes space.
The channel is called 'devops & socks'. Before working full-time at Microsoft, she was
completing a B.S. in Computer Science at Penn State.
Michael Bright is Developer Evangelist for the Traefik reverse-proxy/load-balancer, working for
Containous France. He is passionate about Serverless, Containers, Container Orchestration
and Unikernels! He is a British, has been living in Grenoble, France for 25 years. He runs
local Python and Docker User Groups, is passionate about Cloud technologies including Serverless,
Docker/K8s, Unikernels and OpenStack. He is married to Paulina, a Chilean, he enjoys running,
cycling, Salsa, Tango and holidaying in Chile!
Benjamin Scherrey. He has 30+ years of development experience, has been involved with cryptoledgers
since 2013, recently completed a successful ICO for a client, and has been working extensively
on contracts intended to execute on these cryptoledgers. He will share his experiences, insights,
and more than a few strongly opinionated rants about the ecosystem and the forces behind
the current state of affairs.
Electronic and Telecommunication Undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
who is passionate about hardware development.
Christopher Travers has been working with PostgreSQL since 1999 in various forms, is the author
of multiple pieces of software using or extending that database system in areas from financial
accounting programs to bridges that allow one to query MaxMind MMDB files from PostgreSQL.
Today he works as a database administrator at Adjust GmbH where he administers a data environment
of over 400TB in size.
Alex Shinn is an engineer working on Indeed's job recommendation system. A former Google search
engineer, he is a generalist with experience in natural language processing, building scalable
architectures, and various AI technologies from expert systems to modern machine learning.
In his free time he writes Sheme compilers and libraries and contributes to the Scheme standardization
process.
Isuru Abeywardana is a final year Information Systems undergraduate at the Sabaragamuwa University
of Sri Lanka. He completed my Google Summer of Code project under FOSSASIA and worked with
FOSSASIA as a Developer and Google Code-In as a mentor. He likes to learn and read more about
Docker, JS, DevOps, Cloud Technologies.
Denis Neklyudov is passionate about Android and IoT technologies.
Martin Andrews has a PhD in Machine Learning, and has been an Open Source developer since 1999.
After a career in finance (based in London and New York), he decided to follow his original
passion, and now works on Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence full-time. Martin has
given several talks and workshops on Deep Learning over the last 2 years, including FOSSIA,
PyConSG, DataScienceSG and at the Fifth Elephant conference (in India), in addition to running
paid-for courses in Deep Learning in Singapore.
Seth Vargo is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform primarily focusing on automation,
devops, security, and startups. Previously Seth worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, and a
few other startups. He is an O'Reilly author and advises non-profits in his spare time.
Shipra Jain has been working with MySQL Database team since 2012. She is currently employed by
Oracle, based in India. She is a Staff Principal software engineer for the server QA team
of the MySQL Database. She has a background in the database industry, by working previously
for Sybase IQ and IBM DB2 UDB. She earns her master degree in Computer Application.
Remi Denis-Courmont is a long-time VLC developer and open-source contributor.
Stella Widyasari graduated from NUS as a Computer Science engineer with the focus on Interactive
media and Visual computing. She has been exposed to various modules in android application,
web development, games, animation, film, among others. Currently, Stella is learning more
about web programming technology and in the process of working on different web frameworks,
such as ReactJS. Additionally, she has taken interests in development operations and in the
process to learn the necessary tools such as jenkins, docker and chef.
Truc Viet "Joe" Le is currently a machine learning developer at SAP Innovation Center Network
(ICN) in Singapore. Before that, he was a Ph.D. student in Information Systems at the Singapore
Management University (SMU). His Ph.D. research focused on a general machine learning framework
to solve a diverse set of problems in urban environments, such as crime prevention and transportation.
He is generally interested in applying methods in AI and machine learning combining with
spatiotemporal data analytics to solve real-world problems in urban computing. When not behind
the computer screen, he is an avid traveler, adventurer and an aspiring writer.
Kenji Shimono is mobile Linux Hacker. He's playing with Linux on hacking of Windows Tablet and
ARM devices. His activity is Tokaido Linux Users Group and some conferences in Japan.
Dr Chong Shang Shan worked with SDSS data while doing his Ph.D at Carnegie Mellon University,
doing Data Science before there was such a thing as 'Data Science'. He has worked as ASTAR
researcher, and, as a high school physics teacher, has taught high school students at NUS
High School.
Chin Hong Hua is a Principal Solution Architect for Red Hat. He has 17 years of technical sales
and support experience, predominantly in middleware software like IBM WebSphere, Oracle Fusion
Middleware and SAP NetWeaver. His current work involves partner enablement and providing
technical expertise in JBoss middleware. He has written, presented and taught extensively
on enterprise architecture, application integration and open source technologies. He holds
a degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the School of Computing, National University
of Singapore and has been a Committee Member in the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation
- Cloud Computing Chapter for several years.
Anton Babenko is a fully certified in all 5 AWS professional certifications and has been working
as web-developer, team lead, and CTO during his career. He has strong interests in automation,
infrastructure management and exploring ways to do it properly and as risk-free as possible.
Anton is an active member of open-source communities and a maintainer of verified Terraform
AWS modules (450K downloads a month!). He also leads AWS and HashiCorp User Groups meetups
in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and speaks often at various technical meetups and conferences.
Last year he was a technical reviewer of the first ever printed book about Terraform.
Guruswamy Revana is an academician with around 15 years of experience. He had been into this
journey with Teaching, Research and Development, Mentoring, Counselling, Administration etc.
Basically he is Electrical and Electronics Engineer, his areas of expertise includes Renewable
Energy Sources, Power Electronics, Electric drives. He is also interested in Assistive Technologies
wherein Open source technologies are used to aid differently-abled. He is also keen about
making learning much easier. He uses different methodologies to make Teaching - Learning
process more effective.
Hamish Coleman always likes to bend hardware to his will, which led to a career as a Sys Admin
and means that he is always trying to understand what he can see inside the case.His quest
to make computers do his bidding (and not theirs) has continued to drive his tinkering with
software and hardware at home and at work. He believes in empowering others to also bend
technology along with him. Hamish currently lives in Hong Kong - tiny living with his many
tiny computers.
Qin Fengling has 8 years embedded Linux software development experiences and is familiar with
many desktop Linux distributions (Ubuntu,Debian, Arch, Gentoo),OpenWrt and cross toolchains.
He loves open source projects, including hardware and software. He has done a lot of work
on embedded Linux about GUI and driver porting. Besides, Qin Fengling has development experiences
on ARM,MIPS,LatticeMico32,Z80 embedded systems.
Paul Amazona is a C#.NET developer working in an investment bank. Outside work, he is a core
volunteer with DataKind Singapore, helping to organize events and engage volunteers in using
data science with non-profit organizations. He also speaks/shares in .NET/Azure and Python
user groups.
Alisha Aneja is a Master of Science ( Computer Science) student at University of Melbourne. Having
done her undergraduation in computer science as well, she always knows tech is going to be
her field. She has worked as a Machine Learning Intern for 6 months and now she is interning
with Fedora as a Software Developer under the Outreachy program. She is involved in various
initiatives which aim to improve diversity in tech like the Django Girls workshop, Code Camp
and the Superhack 2017 (IOT hackathon for high school females). She has been a FOSS contributor
for a long time for various projects of Mozilla (Treeherder, Bedrock, Taskcluster) and now
a contributor and intern for Fedora.
Chirag Ahuja is an ETRM Pre-Sales Consultant and support sales heads across the globe, gathering
client requirements, preparing and presenting product demo's, designing marketing content,
responding to RFP's and formulating best fit solutions for the client across the entire trade
life cycle. Within a short span of 2 years, he has helped his sales team bring in over $2mn
in revenues. He has trained and helped on-board 100+ resources across different ETRM projects.
He has designed, built and recorded an 8 hour online ETRM course accessible to their consultants
across the globe. He is also involved in: Skills & Competencies, Commodity Trading and
Risk Management, Robotic Process Automation, Regulatory Compliance (EMIR/REMIT/Dodd-Frank),
Trade Surveillance and AnalyticsIT system experience: Openlink - Endur (+AVS/JVS) SAP - ACM
Triple Point - CXL Hivedome ITASRelevant Credentials: MBA - Energy Trading and Risk Management
(Class Topper) GARP - Energy Risk Professional SAP - Commodity Risk Management Solution
Balasankar C, who prefers to be called Balu, currently works as a Junior Distribution Engineer
at GitLab, where he helps in creating various installation solutions and configuration solutions
for GitLab Community and Enterprise editions. He is also a Debian Developer, and maintains many
Ruby related packages related to GitLab and Diaspora packaging and few Indic font packages.
He is also a GNOME Foundation member, a Mozillian and an active volunteer of Indic Project.
Thia Kai Xin works at the intersection of data science and computer science. Over the course
of 5 years, he has built and deployed into production a variety of large-scale machine learning
models that provide recommendations, text analytics, spam & fraud detection, segmentation
and forecasting across domains like eCommerce, healthcare, and consumer products; improving
the experience for millions of users. He is also the co-founder of DataScience SG, the largest
data science community in Singapore.
James Kulina is currently the Chief Operating Officer at http://Hyper.sh, a pioneering startup
developing open serverless container technology to enable an easy to use multi-cloud Container-as-a-Service
platform. Prior to http://Hyper.sh, James worked at Red Hat in the OpenStack product group
focusing on devops solutions. Before that, James worked at Paris based Openstack professional
services startup eNovance, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2014. Prior to eNovance, James
worked at AT&T in variety of managerial and technical roles within cloud and network
services business units.
Lead Software Engineer source{d}
He is a Gentoo Linux developer in the Hardened and SELinux projects. He maintains the SELinux
policies and userland integration on gentoo.
Praveenkumar Hulakund is working as a Software Developer in MySQL from 2011. He has around 13
years of Experience in the DBMS internals development.
Raj Patel is a Software Engineer at present, employed at BrowserStack. He created an Open Source
Project and is live for about 2 years now. The website's name is StopStalk (www.stopstalk.com)
,which is basically a utility product for Competitive programmers, it is used to help them
analyse their progress along with do a healthy competitive learning by getting inspired from
other fellow programmers.
Being an Electronics Engineer and a Tech Speaker at Mozilla, Pooja Purswani loves tinkering with
various emerging technologies mainly VR, IoT-based platforms, with a motto of making the
web a better and connected place for everyone, and spreading the love of web literacy. She
has been conducting workshops across India,with the aim to spread the love of tech.
Dipesh Monga is a techspeaker at Mozilla and working at Indian Institute of Technology Indore,India
as a Research Associate where he works on development of Internet of things based system
on chips (SoCs). He loves to tinkle with emerging technologies with his main focus of his
research on system on chip based platforms for IoT and technologies of the future. He has
published research papers on technologies like Li-Fi, SoCs for IoT application, mobile technologies
and automation. He loves to speak about open source hardware, web literacy and the future
of upcoming technologies.
Nabarun Pal is a final year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
Currently, he is working for rorodata which aims at providing data scientists a platform
to build and deploy their models without the need of worrying about infrastructure, scalability,
and performance. He is working on an Open Source Functions as a Service framework called
firefly. He is passionate about software development. He can also talk about Internet of
Things, Electronics, Robotics with equal spirit. His journey with the field of software and
robotics started in his schooling days. He represents the college in various Robotics competitions
and was involved in projects related to the above domains. He actively participates in conducting
open lectures for students in the domains of Introductory Robotics, Control, AI and ML through
a curated community of around 2000 members.
Sumedh Nimkarde is a third-year Computer Engineering undergrad student at National Institute
of Technology, Surat, India. He loves to build things which make people's lives easier and
finds technology solutions to real life problems. He works on full-stack and he mentored
Google Summer of Code 2017 students with FOSSASIA. Currently, he is mentoring Google Code-in
and Codeheat students under FOSSASIA.
Srijan Agarwal is a Computer Science Engineering junior at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus.
He has worked/interned over 5 early-stage startups including VSTV, Typeset, Scapic and Supertext
. He is a highly motivated innovative thinker and an initiative taker with strong logical
and analytical skills, with the ability to work individually as well as in a team. He is
an open source enthusiast, Google Summer of Code'16 student, Google Code-In Mentor'16, and
a JavaScript fanatic. His interests are Open Source, Web Applications, Data Analytics, A/B
Testing, Machine Learning, Virtual & Augmented Reality, FinTech, and Distributed Systems.
He mostly codes in JavaScript and Python.
Dr Yeo is an experienced Adult Educator with more than 1300 hours of overseas and local classroom
teaching experience. At his own start-up, he Is leading a motivated team of data scientists
to develop the Natural Language Understanding unit of chatbots.
Dr Yeo received his doctorate from National University of Singapore. For his PhD work,
he specialised in machine learning and data mining in a large multinational pharmaceutical
company, where he built methodologies for the discovery of drug candidates for which
he received the Best Graduate Researcher award.
Nitish Chauhana is a coder, traveller, chai lover. He loves programming and exploring open source
projects. He is a simple person who enjoys playing chess and badminton in his free time.
Currently, he is working as a software developer at INNOVACCER, mainly dealing with mongo,
python & elastic search.
Calvin Cheng designs and codes.
Sundeep Anand is an Open source developer, mostly codes around web, i18n and devops. He contributes
to Ansible, Fedora, Transtats and Zanata projects, speaks at conferences and meetups (speakerdeck.com/sundeep),
and blogs sometimes at sundeep.co.in
Saptak Sengupta is an developer and enthusiast, who weirdly loves frontend development as much
as he loves backend development. He works mainly in python, javascript, and PHP. Besides,
he has been contributing to various open source organizations like FOSSASIA, jQuery, etc.
He loves fiddling around with devops and infrastructure stuff.
Adarsh S is an Entrepreneur, Machine Learning enthusiast. He was the founder of a FOSSMEC
and, the team head of an NLP based Project which was made under Government funding at
ICFOSS, to bring NLP to regional languages. He is currently a contributor to EvalAI, which is a
project which works on making AI reproducible.
Le Kien Truc is willing to contribute to open-source community, he is the leader of ubuntu-vn.
Besides, he is interested in big data analytics and working with people all over the world.
Amit Bhattacharya is working with the MySQL RDBMS Product Team in Oracle Bangalore. His main
responsibilities are leading a team of test engineers to verify and validate the new features
and performance of MySQL Optimizer, developing and maintaining the test suites, development
of automation frameworks and enhancing existing frameworks as and when required, benchmarking
the optimizer performance, developing new tools for testing the database as and when required.
Their test tools and frameworks are developed using PERL and Java. His previous experience
includes working on RDBMS like DB2-UDB for LUW, Sybase-IQ and Microsoft SQL Server. Before
joining Oracle he has worked with IBM India Software Labs, Microsoft and Sybase Inc.
Joyce Ng is working on an open-hardware transceiver kit for amateur band use in Singapore. She
is a Electronics Engineering student at Singapore Polytechnic who is also an amateur radio
licensee. She likes to experiment and tinker with electronics, and at times, repairs radio
transceivers and other equipment. She believes that communication is important in the modern
society we live in and that the knowledge of radio and other communications principles is
the key to bridging people and communities, beyond borders and boundaries.
Darin Lobo is interested in neuroscience, synthetic biology, electrical engineering, quantum
mechanics and science in general. He is a maker and biohacker. He is mostly experienced in
hardware hacking and he is currently learning software specifically in neural networks. He
runs a biohacking and hardware hacking meetup in Singapore called Biospacesg.
Chandan Kumar is currently working as a Software Engineer in Red Hat (India) on RDO and OpenStack
project. He is one of the Organizers of Python Pune meetup as well as coordinator of dgplug.
Dr. Emin Aksehirli is working as a full stack data wrangler at DataSpark. He is preparing data,
developing algorithms, productionize them using DevOps techniques, and support them. He is
a data scientist, an experienced Java developer, a former Java trainer, and most importantly
an open/free culture advocate.
Aravind Putrevu is currently working at Elastic as a Developer Advocate. He has deep interest
in Machine Learning, Security Incident Analysis and IoT tech. In his free time, he plays
around Raspi or a Arduino.
Dilum Navanjana was able to work as a Software Engineer From his 3rd year in the University.
Then, he wanted to learn new technologies & joined 99x Technologies. Currently he's doing
Ruby Application development & Single Page applications with Angular JS.
Jackson Isaac studied at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India and TU Munchen, Germany. He wasGoogle
Summer of Code 2017 Organization Admin and 2015 Student Developer with The MacPorts Project.He
is a developer by profession and student by heart, a data Science and AI enthusiast.He is
currently working on Big Data, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Cloud based projects.
Cherry G. Mathew is a C programmer with geo-libertarian political views, anarchist tendencies
and some FOSS contributions - mostly to the BSD operating system ecosystem. As a Software
Engineer, he has written programs which are mostly user invisible. As a Hardware Engineer,
he has built an autonomous fruit picking robot which was very user visible. As an activist
he has been a road warrior to campaign for grassroots access to FOSS. As an techno-anarchist
and community organiser, he has been a founding member of two hacker conferences.
Sandeep Kapalawai is a Computer Science Graduate, an Open Source Evangelist speaking on FOSS
(Free and Open Source Softwares), Mozilla's Projects and Products, specifically Localization,
Common Voice, SUMO Project, L10n and QA. He is a Rep, Webmaker Mentor, Passionate Blogger
and interested in learning new technologies.
Teng-Ying Tai obtained his B.S. degree in Information Management from DYU University, Taiwan,
in 2001, and EMBA course from ASIA University, Taiwan, in 2016. Besides, he is founder of
the MoGaMe Mobile(MGM), he has done several space related projects with National Space Organization,
Taiwan and Principal Investigator in 1.5U Cubesat Project(YuSat-1 ,2017~2019). In addition,
he dedicated to NBIoT/Cat-4 cubesat communication research, which will be used in the future.
Hemant Dangi is working for Oracle as Senior Member Technical Staff for Group Replication development
team.
Rakesh Tadishetty is a tech evangelist. He has been a speaker in various events and conferences
conducted by Microsoft. Besides, he also gives speeches in many open source hackathons conducted
by Mozilla and worked on IOT, Hadoop big data and machine learning technologies.
Divyam Madaan is an open source enthusiast contributing as a core developer at GCompris which
is a high-quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children
aged 2 to 10. He has been a Season of KDE developer, mentor, and a Google Summer of Code
student, 2017 and has been working as a Software Developer at KDE for more than one year.
Tiejun Chen is a staff engineer from ATC, Advanced Technology Center, VMware China. Currently,
his team is trying to work out their own Unikernel & IoT & Serverless project. Before
join VMware, he worked at Wind River where he was responsible for developing Wind River Linux
BSP, Kernel features and their own paraviratualized Guest OS, and submitted their fixes into
mainstream like Linux/PowerPC/RT Linux. And then he joined OTC, Intel to enable new hardware
features on open source community like KVM/XEN/Qemu.
Ajo Robert has 10+ years of industry experience which span across network protocols and core
database server development for both in-memory and disk-based systems. His current role in
Oracle involves working on different MySQL modules including RUNTIME (which comprises of
DDL execution, Distributed transaction management, meta-data locking, etc) and OPTIMIZER
(consists of MDL execution, SELECT query planning, execution, data type management, etc)
is the perfect combination of exposure to core database principles and its implementation.
Janki Chhatbar is an open source enthusiast working as software engineer in Red Hat in OpenStack
and OpenDaylight. In her spare time, she writes about recent technologies on http://simplyexplainedblog.wordpress.com.
She is also the founder of Women Who Code Pune chapter and serves as its director.
Suraj Narwade is an open source enthusiast who contributes to the Kompose and the Kedge projects.
He occasionally contributes to Kubernetes and Libcompose too. He is an active member of the
local container-centric meetups in Bangalore and Pune, India. As a software engineer at Red
Hat, he works on tools that help developers build and deploy containerized applications.
He recently presented his work at the DevOps Day 2017.When not hacking containers, he can
be seen hacking Alexa.
Melvin Zhang is an avid programmer who enjoys designing and implementing novel algorithms. As
the CTO of Cosmiqo, Melvin is in charge of developing its sensor data aggregation and analytics
platform. In his spare time, Melvin works on the AI for MagArena, an open source card game
project. Melvin received his B. Comp (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from NUS School of Computing.
Chaithra Gopalaredy has been working with MySQL database team since 2011. She is currently employed
by Oracle, based in India, Bangalore. She is a Principal Software Developer for the Optimizer
Team of the MySQL database. She has a background in the database industry, having worked
for Alcatel Lucent's DataBlitz main memory database in past.
Pronnoy Goswami is currently working with McKinsey and Company as a Software Development Engineer.
He builds web-applications and products for various clients. He mostly works on back-end
using NodeJS with HapiJS as the framework & is also interested in DevOps and Application
Infrastructure.Pronnoy is passionate about the new innovations in the field of technologies
related to Human Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. Computer science as a field of
work and research has always intrigued him, hence this choice. For the past two and a half
years, he's been working on Image Processing and Machine Vision. His work on image processing
has been a perfect amalgamation of research and practical application.
Dias is a long term privacy advocate and crypto evangelist. He currently heads the engineering
team at consumer app startup. He was previously the CTO of Quantified Assets, a crypto management
firm and is an open source contributor. He is trying to solve the challenge of reputation
and safety in an anonymous decentralized world.
Nisha Gopalakrishnan has been working as a system software developer for over 9 years and of
which 6 years has been with MySQL, Oracle based out of Bangalore, India. She has been involved
in sustaining efforts of the MySQL server for the last six years. Prior to Oracle, She worked
with Cisco for their network suite of products and with Wipro on platform security.
Harin Nalin Vadodaria has been associated with MySQL since May 2012. He is working on security
features of MySQL server.
Chathu Vishwajith a Co-Founder of a Startup where few of its products are powered by Full-stack
JS. He is an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka
Unity Developers User Group. He has been working with NodeJS since 2012 and he loves it.
In addition, he co-founded Colombo JS Meetup in 2013, he has been educating and having discussions
about JS for almost four years. Currently, he is working on Full-stack sales app which has
NodeJS backend to serve API and Angular 4 Dashboard with Ionic 3 Mobile app.
Trishul Goel is a professional frontend developer, writing React code for a living and volunteering
for Mozilla to justify his existence. He is an expert in developing browser extensions.You
may know him for his Measure-it extension with 10K+ users. He also creates Youtube tutorial
videos to help developers to understand various Webextension APIs.
Raju Koushik Gorantla is an undergraduate, pursuing Information Technology at the Indian Institute
of Information Technology, Vadodara, India. He was a Google Summer of Code Developer 2017
and Google CodeIn Mentor 2017. In addition, he is a hacker, coding enthusiast and a writer.
A software developer building servers on Django and Flask and an entrepreneur working on
his own startup Travel Diaries. He is also an avid open source contributor lately, working
on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval. He is a former Software Engineer Intern at
Invoxel Technologies Lmt and Curo Health Care Lmt. You can see him writing, reading or playing
table tennis during his leisure time.
Harshit Prasad is an Open Source Enthusiast and Full Stack Developer. He is learning Artificial
Intelligence and helping developers to build awesome stuff. He is also a GSoC'17 participant,
CodeHeat 2017 Mentor and GCI Mentor 2017 in FOSSASIA.
Venkatesh Duggirala has been working with MySQL Database team since 2012 (Replication Module).
He is currently a Senior Principle Member Technical Staff, employed by Oracle, based in Bangalore,
India. He has background in the database industry around 12+ years, has worked on various
database products like Datablitz(Lucent), ANTs, ACS, Sybase, IBM DB2. He has a Master degree
in Information Technology from Indian Institute of technology,Bombay.
Himanshu Dixit is a Information Technology Engineering student. Currently, he is a Project Leader
At Oppia, and Core Developer at Drupal. He is an Open Source Enthusiast, Google Summer of
Code'17 Student, Google Code-in Mentor 2017. Currently junior student from India with major
in Information Technology. He loves to code and talk about the fascinating ideas.
Tameesh Biswas is a developer, open source enthusiast and a code fanatic. His life revolves around
writing code to solve problems that he is passionate about. He is currently a sophomore at
the Indian Institute of Technology Patna majoring in Computer Science and Engineering.
Manas Ranjan Kar is currently leading the NLP & Data Science practice at Episource, a US
healthcare company. His daily work revolves around working on semantic technologies and computational
linguistics (NLP), building algorithms and machine learning models, researching data science
journals and architecting secure product backends in the cloud. He has architected multiple
commercial NLP solutions in the area of healthcare, foods & beverages, finance and retail.
He is deeply involved in functionally architecting large scale business process automation
& deep insights from structured & unstructured data using Natural Language Processing
& Machine Learning. He has contributed to multiple NLP libraries like Gensim and Conceptnet5.
He blogs regularly on NLP on multiple forums like Data Science Central, LinkedIn and his
blog Unlock Text.
Harish Navnit is a free software enthusiast and software developer specializing in designing
and maintaining cross platform desktop applications, written primarily using the Qt framework.
He loves porting applications to newer frameworks and introduce advanced build tool features
to make them scale better and be easier to maintain. Besides, he is a member of the KDE community,
involved in both technical and non-technical/promo activities.
Tarun Kumar believes in working with the community and sharing ideas. He believes one's idea
can be better if shared with other people. People should know to create solutions rather
than finding the solutions. He loves free and open-source software community because it sucks
that you are going through something and found some things that are useful and others didn't
know that. I love to implement that and will be much happier if I am a part of that change.
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Team
Hong Phuc Dang
FOSSASIA Founder
Mario Behling
AI
Harish Pillay
Internet Society
Tit Meng Lim
Chief Executive Science Centre and NUS
Roland Turner
Yahi
Justin Lee
Open Source Community Leader
DENG Zhi Wei (Kiwi)
Hardware Lead FOSSASIA
Daniel Blueman
Numascale
Nayana Adassuriya
Autodesk
Noah Chen
FOSSASIA Taiwan
Gi Soong Chee
Dunman High School
Thorsten Neumann
Founder & CTO, SmartPesa
Victoria Bondarchuk
Seoul Tech Society
Victoria Purynova
Seoul Tech Society
Eden Jade
Program and Event Manager
Darrel Chua
Business Development
Christopher Adams
Blockchain
Philip Paeps
The FreeBSD Foundation
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