Lovee Jain
Lovee is a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee, a Google Developer Expert in GCP, GDG Melbourne Organiser, Women Techmakers Ambassador and an international speaker. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and works on multiple gift card solutions to cater the B2B2C market.
Timothy Santiago
Seasoned iOS engineer and software development leader with over a decade of experience around the Retail, Banking and IoT mobile app development field.
Katie Barnett
Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is a Google Developer Expert for Android, one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. She frequently runs events, speaks on technical and non-technical topics and enjoys writing blog posts to share her experience with others. Katie is based in Melbourne, Australia but loves to travel the world and outside of tech she enjoys boardgaming and attempting to finish many craft projects.
Craig Spence
Craig is a Software Engineer from New Zealand, currently travelling the world, working as a Senior Architect at Hero Devs! He's an Angular GDE, and he loves using all kinds of technologies to build cool things that help teams build cool things! He also loves punk rock, Disney's Frozen, and his cat Cosy.
Jason Vella
I’m a passionate problem solver with a deep love for the complexities of technology, even after two decades in the industry. My career has spanned roles from individual contributor to VP-level leadership in start up and scale ups and, more recently, I’ve ventured into the enterprise space for a new challenge as a Principal Software Engineer at Westpac.
Isaac Udy
Isaac is an Android engineer from Wellington, New Zealand. He's interested in modularisation, architecture, and how to scale engineering effort from a technical perspective. He's also interested in navigation on Android and builds/maintains an alternative to AndroidX Navigation named Enro.
Ian Brown
I am a passionate developer, systems engineer and cloud architect with years of experience in designing, building and running applications in public and private cloud environments for Australian companies. My career started as a Helpdesk operator and progressed through Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Software Developer and now to Site Reliability Engineer. I am a passionate supporter of Google Cloud Platform and you can find me at GDG Brisbane https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/gdgbrisbane/ meetups as well as at the Brisbane CloudHero events. You will also find me as a mentor at the Rails Girls Brisbane http://www.railsgirlsbne.com event held every year and at digIT https://www.amt.edu.au/digit mentoring students in web applications and robotics.
Kartik Arora
Kartik Arora is a Senior Android Engineer at Bilue with a strong background in user-centric design and mobile development. A Google Developer Expert (GDE), Kartik has worked with leading brands across multiple industries, including entertainment and finance. He is passionate about fostering tech communities and frequently shares his insights at meetups and conferences.
Brett Morgan
Brett builds samples, codelabs, documentation and other fun things to encourage developers to use Flutter and Dart to the fullest. Hailing from Sydney, Australia, he has worked across the entire range of companies from Australia’s largest bank to secretive startups. His interests include all things technical, from mastering Sous Vide cooking in the kitchen to embedded programming on the RP 2040.
Kristine Song
As a regional lead for KR/ANZ, Kristine empowers startups and developer communities to thrive. Passionate about fostering inclusive environments, Kristine believes in the power of collaboration and growth. Outside of work, Kristine cherishes quality time with her loved ones, including her partner and their four dogs.
Konstantin Tchernov
Konstantin is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GitLab. His previous experience includes over 10 years of technical leadership. He's worked in top kiwi companies such as Pushpay, Mcom (now Fiserv), Xero, and Navman. He's covered a wide variety of tech stacks from embedded and mobile to running SRE for Auckland's critical electricity infrastructure.
Luke Sleeman
I'm a Principal Developer at Mantel Group specialising in Android app development. I'm passionate about building inclusive, diverse and high performing teams. Great things happen when you empower developers to be their very best. I've just spent the past 4 years helping ANZ build out their new ANZ Plus mobile app. I was there when the first Android code was written and I've been there for the whole journey, as the team of Android developers I help lead has grown to over 80 devs! Its been an amazing journey with some very talented people. I also speak on Android related subjects, both at developer meetups in Australia and internationally, as well as at various conferences.
Elaine Gao
Hey! I'm Elaine, a Machine Learning Engineer at Mantel Group, with a passion for creating meaningful and empowering data-based solutions in the cloud. I've worked in projects across a range of industries solving a variety of different problems, always focusing on having data usability and ethical application in mind. In my spare time I love picking up new hobbies and being terrible to slightly above mediocre at all of them :)
John Graves
Data Scientist at REACH Media. Keen on using Cursor daily for coding.
Nakul Gowdra
Nakul Gowdra, AI/ML Lead, Google Cloud New Zealand. Nakul is the lead for AI/ML initiatives in New Zealand. He works closely with stakeholders to enable data driven outcomes and help them explore the best ways to innovate, whether via Generative AI models, Recommendation models, research or sustainability. With over a decade of experience, Nakul facilitates deeper understanding of how Google’s data and AI tools can improve business and personal outcomes while upholding Google’s AI ethical principles.
Sam Su
A data privacy specialist with three years in the field, With a focus on translating privacy laws into compliant processes and systems. Outside of work, I’m a huge basketball fan, gym enthusiast, and enjoy following the current trendy sport.
Geshan Manandhar
Geshan is a seasoned software engineer, with over 15 years of software engineering experience. Currently, in Sydney, Australia serving Simply Wall St. as a senior software engineer. He is a language-agnostic software engineer who believes the value provided to the business is more important than the choice of language or framework. With a keen interest in REST architecture, microservices, agile software engineering, and serverless, he has spoken at tech conferences in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Australia. He is actively involved with the developer community and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) since 2019 and a Docker Captain since 2024. He is a certified scrum master too. Blogging since 2007, he has a well-maintained tech blog where he shares his views and ideas.
Anran Niu
Anran is a Software Engineer at Canva, where she builds resources that empower developers to create impactful apps and integrations. She is passionate about crafting scalable tools to help developers deliver seamless, enjoyable user experiences.