FooConf Program Committee will select the talks and elaborate the program of FooConf Second Edition. Led by Erno Kurki and Mattias Karlsson.
Mattias KarlssonfooConf
Mattias spends his time working with software development since 1993 and leading a JUG in Stockholm, Sweden. Through the years he has gained experience from many different roles, including developer, architect, team leader, coach, manager, and teacher. Mattias also wrote a chapter in the "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know" about Code Reviews. Mattias founded Jfokus together with community friends in 2007. In his spare time, Mattias can be found snowboarding and riding his motorcycle.
Welcome and Introduction
Erno KurkifooConf
Multidisciplinary Technologist with 16 years worth of continuous learning on how to deliver business critical systems. Broad perspective in to the cloud industry and where the technology is heading. Experience in designing sustainable software delivery and in facilitating a globally distributed DevOps operation.
Welcome and Introduction
Juho VepsäläinenAalto University
Juho Vepsäläinen is behind the SurviveJS effort. He has been active in the open source scene since the early 2000s and participated in projects like Blender and webpack as a core team member.
Juho lives in Rautalampi, Finland, and was chosen as the Finnish Code Ambassador of 2017 by Blue Arrow Awards. He is the director of React Finland.
Maaret PyhäjärviVaisala Oyj
Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is a tester, (polyglot) programmer, speaker, author, and a community facilitator. She has been awarded prestigious testing awards, Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 (MIATPP) and EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award (2020), Tester Worth Appreciating (2022), and selected as Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019-2021.
Matias HuhtaSimplr Oy
Matias is a enthusiastic Software Developer who loves working with developer tooling. He's an active member of Open Source communities focused on Web Components and has worked on projects like the Web Component DevTools and is currently building a Language Server for Custom Elements.
Matias aims to ease the day to day development experience of developers around the world while also making the experience as enjoyable and fun as possible.
Melissa McKayJFrog
Melissa’s career as a developer and software engineer spans over 20 years, and her experience spans a slew of technologies and tools used in the development and operation of enterprise products and services. She is passionate about Java and DevOps, and is currently a Developer Advocate with the JFrog Developer Relations team. She is a Java Champion, Docker Captain, co-author of the book DevOps Tools for Java Developers, and an international speaker at numerous software conferences. Melissa is active in the developer community, currently serving on the Continuous Delivery Foundation TOC and as a Co-Chair of the CDF Interoperability SIG.
