Aayush is a certified Frontend Developer and an advocate open source developer. He has worked with FOSSASIA on the project Open Event Web app as a GSOC student in 2016 and as a mentor in 2017. He is a founder of `Small-Start`, which is an initiative to promote open-source work. 

His major interest areas include Human Computer Interaction, Data Visualizations, and Data analytics.

I am an undergraduate pursuing CS major at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. I have been active in the open source community since I began college. I have been contributing to FOSSASIA since 2016, and worked on Open Event Frontend as my Google Summer Of Code 2017 Project.  I am mentoring students for Google Code In in FOSSASIA, and contribute as an advanced developer !    

Entrepreneur, Machine Learning and an open source enthusiast. 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.

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.

Graduated in Maths from St.Petersburg State University, worked in consulting, freelance, independent research

Aravind currently he works at Elastic as 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.

• Debian Developer
• Junior Build Engineer at GitLab
• GNOME Foundation Member
• Mozillian
• Administrator, Malayalam Wikisource
• Administrator, Free Software Community of India

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 M.Sc. in computational physics, with an astrophysics emphasis.

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.

We are a group of high school Computing students and we love to do cool stuff in Python, and would like to share our love. 

bunnie 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). He received his PhD in EE from MIT in 2002. He currently lives in Singapore where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi, and he actively mentors several startups and students of the MIT Media Lab.

I design and code

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 B.Sc. 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.

Worked in the Linux and open source world industries for 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. That's 20 years of programming mostly in C and assembly on top of Linux, shipping in 100+ million devices around the globe.

I am currently working as a Software Engineer in Red Hat (India) on RDO and OpenStack project.

I am one of the Organizer of Python Pune meetup as well as coordinator of dgplug.

​​I'm a Co-Founder of a Startup where few of its products are powered by Full-stack JS. I'm an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. I have started working with NodeJS since 2012 and I love it. I Co-founded Colombo JS Meetup in 2013 and keep educating and having discussions about JS for almost four years now. Currently working on Full-stack sales app which has NodeJS backend to serve API and Angular 4 Dashboard with Ionic 3 Mobile app. 

Third grade college student who major in electrical engineering.

2016 information volunteer in Mongolia, teaching Maker skill and opensource software.

Teaching assistant in college, promoting the value of free software .

Cherry G. Mathew is a C programmer with geo-libertarian political views, anarchist tendencies and some FOSS contributions - mostly to theBSD 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. 

Chetan Khatri is working as a Technical Lead at Accionlabs, he has diverse experience in field of Data Science and Machine learning. He is upstream committer at Apache Spark, Apache HBase, Apache Spark - HBase Connector, Elixir Lang. He has been authored curriculum of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Distributed computing at KSKV Kachchh University, Government of Gujarat - INDIA. He has also reviewed couple of Books with Scala Machine learning, Tensorflow Deep learning, Machine learning for Web with Packt Publication. He has delivered many talks at Pycon India 2016, PyKutch 2016.

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer by trade with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's 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.At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects.

Hi, my name is Chris and I’m one of the team at Microsoft in South East Asia helping people to build awesome startup businesses on top of our technology stack. I trained as both a lawyer and a technologist and while I’ve worked in the latter field, I maintain a strong interest in the former. I'm excited about the potential of technology to make the world a better place and I'm doing my damnedest to help people to harness that potential and put it into action.

Chris 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.

Chris 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 currently represent Platform.sh, the world's best Continuous Deployment web hosting PaaS, across the Asia-Pacific region.

Chris 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.

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 and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.

Dai was very passionate about chemistry when he was a high school student. But one day, he fell in love with lines of code when trying to program chemical formulas, and then he graduated in Information Technology at Hanoi University of Science and Technology with one semester early in 2016.

Now, he's mainly working on OpenStack which he researched in a high performance computing center when he was student. He also like motorbike trips and environment protection.

Damini Satya has been an active open source contributor turning committer and mentor affiliated to the FOSSASIA project and leads a large chunk of development work happening on many of the critical projects. Damini's contribution to the open source community has been multifold ranging from engagement in development, community building and outreach, organizing and administration as well as mentorship. Currently, she works as a Software Engineer at Salesforce. 

I'm a software developer and consultant. I'm mostly known for my involvement in the Jabber/XMPP community and for being the lead developer of the Conversations project - a popular Jabber/XMPP client for Android.

He co-founded Kamailio in June 2005, aiming to build a solid SIP server project where openness to community and contributions has an important role, previously being core developer of SIP Express Router (SER) from its early beginning in 2002. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest. His experience was accumulated working as consultant for Orange Romania, branch of French Orange mobile operator, and researcher in network communications at Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, Berlin, Germany.

His activity is done at Asipto, a company targeting to offer and build reliable services and solutions that benefit at maximum from Kamailio’s flexibility and features, sharing knowledge and expertise via professional trainings and consultancy. Daniel is leading the development of the Kamailio project and he is member of its management board.

In February 2017 Daren joined ConsenSys, one of the largest independent blockchain technology firms globally. As part of the ConsenSys team, Daren specializes in delivering enterprise advisory and technology services for clients in government, financial services, and other sectors. Since joining ConsenSys, Daren has served clients in both Dubai and Singapore. In Dubai, Daren played a key role in supporting the Dubai government with their mandate to implement the city-wide blockchain strategy 2020 announced in October 2016 by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai.

Prior to joining ConsenSys, Daren spent 3 years with Deloitte in the United States as a business technology analyst and consultant. Daren started his career at Deloitte working closely with Fortune 500 clients to implement Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Later, as part of Deloitte’s Global Blockchain team, he served as a technology advisor to leading U.S. companies in the financial services, retail & distribution, and government sectors while concurrently helping to build the U.S. blockchain team.

Daren graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.

I am interested in neuroscience, synthetic biology, electrical engineering, quantum mechanics and science in general. I am a maker and biohacker. I am mostly experienced in hardware hacking and I am currently learning software specifically in neural networks. I run a biohacking and hardware hacking meetup in Singapore called Biospacesg. 

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

Passionate about Android and IoT technologies

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.

I am an undergraduate student pursuing my B.tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BVRIT Hyderabad college of Engineering for women, JNTU Hyderabad.I have zeal to learn and work on new things, especially on innovative ideas. I have worked on several projects including ‘Dry Eye Syndrome Quantifier’ at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad in collaboration with MIT Media Lab.I have participated in several workshops and hackathons including ‘STARTUP WEEKEND HYDERABAD’, a 54 hour Hackathon conducted at Indian School of Business. I gave several presentations and I underwent one month Industrial training on LARGE TURBO GENERATORS at BHEL, Ramchandrapuram.

Doug Gray is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Indeed. As a member of Indeed’s senior leadership team, Doug defines the organizational and development processes for the engineering team. His areas of expertise include product revitalization, process change and team development. Previously, Doug was a senior leader at Versata Software. Prior to that, he held a number of senior positions at Trilogy, where he worked for over 12 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Dr. Awan is a highly motivated individual, a PhD holder of Corporate Management (specialization in Marketing) from Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. The topic of his PhD research was “Impact of Brand Experience on Intention of Word-of-Mouth in Branded Services of China: A Survey of Top-Tier Cities of China”. Dr. Awan recently completed his PhD and rejoined as Assistant Professor of Marketing, (Department of Management Sciences) under Faculty of Business Administration at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad Campus. Before his PhD degree he was serving the department as Lecturer in Marketing since 2007.

His academic profile includes Masters in Management from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, Masters of Science (Mass Communication) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Master of Business Administration (Marketing) from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan and Bachelor of Science (Computer Sciences) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He also has various certificates including Management, Teaching and Training, Computer Software, Hardware Assembling, & Troubleshooting.

He is a diligent professional, with excellent communication skills applied in a broad range of contexts including administrative expertise, leadership qualities, teaching and training, conferences and workshops presentations, and international level events’ management. During his stay in China he managed to work as visiting faculty with three top universities of South China (South China University of Technology, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University and Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University) for a period of about 4 years. He was also invited at various conferences and workshops for invited talks and training sessions. He also managed to give short-term trainings about soft skills to various organizations in both Chinese and English languages. Few successful events he managed include the Pakistan-China Business Forum (held annually in Pakistan), International Forum of Vice Chancellors’ of Islamic Universities and academic conferences of international level (in China and Pakistan). He was also part of the preparatory meetings for Pakistan-China Business Forum (held every year) at China during his PhD tenure. He helped the organizing team of the forum by ensuring the participation of business community from his residential province in China. He also coordinated meetings with business community and various chambers and regulatory bodies for participation in the forum.

A "citizen of the world" with a Swedish passport, Dušan was awarded the prize Business Angel of the Year in Europe in 2013 by EBAN (European Business Angel Network) after having three positive exits within a week, which was previously unheard of in the global angel history. Announced as among FINTECH ASIA 100 Leaders In Asian Fintech in 2016 after moving in 2014 to Asia. Solid track record with 9 out of 18 investments fully or partly exited. All exits related to payments & Fintech. All other investments have reached a first break even point and none has closed down. Dusan has also completed 3 Token Generating Events in 3 weeks 2017/2018. Bountysource powered by CanYa (12 MAUD on December 27th ) – Australia. Sharespost  (US 42 MUSD security token raise of Finom on December 31th) – US. Bluzelle (19.5 MUSD ICO on January 20th.) - Singapore

Dr. Emin Akşehirli 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.

Floyd DCosta is the co-founder of Block Armour and Blockchain Worx. 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 out of Singapore, Floyd helps institutions harness the potential of Blockchain technology for competitive advantage.

Frank Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010 to return control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. In 2016 he initiated the Nextcloud project to bring this idea to the next level. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including having been a board member for the KDE community. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Con and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud Gmbh. Frank is a fellow of Open Forum Europe. 

I, Guruswamy Revana, an academician with around 15 years of experience.  I had been into this journey with Teaching, Research and Development, Mentoring, Counselling, Administration etc. Basically I am Electrical and Electronics Engineer, my areas of expertise includes Renewable Energy Sources, Power Electronics, Electric drives. I am also interested in Assistive Technologies wherein Open source technologies are used to aid differently-abled. I am also keen about making learning much easier. I use different methodologies to make Teaching - Learning process more effective.

Hamish has always liked 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.

Member of the KDE community, involved in both technical and non-technical/promo activities.

An Open Source Enthusiast and Full Stack Developer. Learning Artificial Intelligence. Helping developers to build awesome stuff. I'm also a GSoC'17 participant, CodeHeat 2017 Mentor and GCI Mentor 2017 in FOSSASIA.

I am a Principal Product Security Engineer working with Red Hat. Part of several Open Source Project Security Teams including Mozilla, WebKit, PHP, Python, Samba etc. Free time security researcher and fedora contributor.     

Role in FOSS (hats):

• Software build and integration senior engineer at Collabora Ltd.

Debian Developer:

• Debian ARM build daemon maintainer
• Debian ARM porter and package maintainer
• Debian System Administrator
• Embedded Debian Developer

As a software engineer and software development manager in banking, finance and e-commerce sectors, I gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting my own business, I worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.

I am the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. I use 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 my fields of special interests.

István (or Flaki, for short) is a JavaScript world-domination prophet, engineer & trainer from Budapest. He runs his own consulting business Skylark, is a Frontend Trainer @ DPC Consulting and a longtime Mozilla-contributor. He contributes to various open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Rust, Servo and the Tessel Project. His favorite topics include service workers, progressive webapps and JS on microcontrollers.

I'm a final year Information Systems undergraduate at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. I completed my Google Summer of Code project under FOSSASIA and worked with FOSSASIA as a Developer and Google Code-In as a mentor. I like to learn and read more about Docker, JS, DevOps, Cloud Technologies.

Italo Vignoli is a director at Open Source Initiative since 2016, a founding member of The Document Foundation and Associazione LibreItalia, and the Chairman Emeritus of the latter. He leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. Italo has contributed to several migration projects to LibreOffice in Italy, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer. He has been involved in open source projects since 2004. In his professional life, he is a marketing consultant with over 30 years of experience in hi-tech marketing and media relations. He has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, and MBAs in Marketing, Public Relations and Journalism.

Focusing on compilers and peer-to-peer applications, Jacek has nurtured his curiosity for software and tinkering with various open source hobby projects for almost two decades. With a career background ranging from high-frequency trading and finance through web development and consulting to research and academic collaborations, he recently switched gears joining Status.im to make that a full time endeavor.

Big Data Developer Tata Consultancy Services

Alumnus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India and TU München, Germany.

Google Summer of Code 2017 Organization Admin and 2015 Student Developer with The MacPorts Project.

Developer by profession and student by heart.

Data Science and AI enthusiast.

He is currently working on Big Data, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Cloud based projects.

James Kulina is currently Chief Operating Officer at 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 Hyper.sh, James worked at Red Hat in the OpenStack product group focusing on devops solutions. Prior to Red Hat, 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.

Jan Peuker is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google where he is working on large, distributed systems on the edge between front - and backend.

I'm a Gentoo Linux developer in the Hardened and SELinux projects. I maintain the SELinux policies and userland integration on gentoo.

Jean-Baptiste is the President of VideoLAN and VLC Lead Developer. Since 2005, he has worked on or lead most VideoLAN related projects, including VLC for desktop, the relicensing of libVLC, the ports to mobile operating systems, and various multimedia libraries like libdvdcss or libbluray. Since a few years, he has been mostly working with and founding start-ups, and consulting for bigger firms.

Jens Petersen is a FOSS professional, who works in Software Engineering at Red Hat. He has been involved in the Linux OS, Haskell and FOSS communities for many years and is a strong advocate of typed functional programming and Haskell in particular.

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).

Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of 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.

Joyce 9V1AN 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.

Kamesh is currently Red Hat’s Director of Developer Experience, most part of Kamesh’s career was with services industry helping various customers build Java based solutions. Kamesh is the creator of vertx-maven-plugin(https://vmp.fabric8.io) and he has been an active contributor to fabric8 project. Being a OpenSource developer and contributor Kamesh's loves sharing his experience on building and deploying Java Applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift. He still loves to learn new technologies and strongly believe in “ITS BETTER TO SHARE”.

Kaz Sato is Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud team, Google Inc. Focusing on Machine Learning and Data Analytics products, such as TensorFlow, Cloud ML and BigQuery. Kaz has been invited to major events including Google Cloud Next SF, Google I/O, Strata NYC etc., authoring many GCP blog posts, and supporting developer communities for Google Cloud for over 8 years. He is also interested in hardwares and IoT, and has been hosting FPGA meetups since 2013.

Ken works on AI applications at AI Singapore, with a specific focus on using process automation to accelerate & scale digital processes. Prior to joining AI Singapore, Ken founded an open-source company, researching & developing TagUI automation software out of his Eastern Europe base in Budapest, Belgrade and Novi Sad. He previously held technical and leadership positions in DBS Technology and Operations, HP Enterprise Services, ADP Dealer Services and A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. Ken is an e-Resident of Estonia, a participant of UN Global Compact and a patron of Mastodon - the world's largest open-source and decentralized social network.

 I'm mobile Linux Hacker.I'm playing with Linux on 「hacking of Windows Tablet and ARM devices」.My activity is Tokaido Linux Users Group and some conferences in Japan.

Kin Ko is the Founder and Product Designer of LikeCoin Foundation. After 18 years in Lakoo, a mobile game developer founded by himself in 1999 and backed by Tencent and Sequoia Capital, He created an oice visual novel which later on became LikeCoin.  Graduated in CUHK in 1997, He holds a degree in Computer Engineering and minor in Sociology and Government and Public Administration. He shares his views on cryptocurrency, Internet, and society through writings on Mingpao, The Standnews, CitizenNews, Medium and his own blog ckxpress.com  

- Willing contribute in open-source community, leader of ubuntu-vn.

- Interested in big data analytics. 

- Working with people all over the world.

CEO

I'm Mai-Hsuan(Kevin) Chia from Taiwan. Currently I'm 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.