Ahto Truu
During his two and a half decades in the ICT industry, Ahto has worked in hardware installations and user support, as a software developer and architect, and as a systems analyst. Currently he is busy helping Guardtime’s customers preserve the integrity of their important data. Outside his day job he coaches Estonia’s team to the high school students' programming competitions. He has also been writing programming columns for the popular science magazines A&A and Horisont.
Alex Chan
Alex is a software developer at Wellcome Collection, helping to build systems to store and preserve digital archives – everything from medical records to cat pictures. Outside work, they help to run the PyCon UK conference, contribute to open-source Python, and advocate for more inclusive events.
Alisdair Meredith
Alisdair Meredith is a software developer at BloombergLP in New York, and previous chair of the C++ Standard Committee Library Working Group.
He has been an active member of the C++ committee for just over a decade, and by a lucky co-incidence his first meeting was the kick-off meeting for the project that would become C++11, and also fixed the contents of the original library TR.
He is currently working on the BDE project, BloombergLP’s open source libraries that offer a foundation for C++ development, including a standard library implementation supporting the polymorphic allocator model proposed for standardization.
Anastasia Kazakova
Anastasia Kazakova JetBrains, Product Marketing Manager, C++ Tools
As a C and C++ software developer, Anastasia Kazakova created real-time *nix-based systems and pushed them to production for 8 years. She has a passion for networking algorithms and embedded programming and believes in good tooling. With all her love for C++, she is now the Product Marketing Manager on the JetBrains CLion team. Besides, Anastasia runs a C++ user group in Saint-Petersburg, Russia (https://www.meetup.com/St-Petersburg-CPP-User-Group/).
Andreas Weis
Andreas has been writing C++ code in many different domains, from real-time graphics, to distributed applications, to embedded systems. As a library writer by nature, he enjoys writing portable code and exposing complex functionalities through simple, richly-typed interfaces. Both of which C++ allows him to do extensively. Andreas is also one of the co-organizers of the Munich C++ User Group, which allows him to share this passion with others on a regular basis. He currently works for BMW, where he tries to make cars smarter than humans.
Andy Balaam
Andy Balaam loves code, and loves talking about code. His blog, articles and open source projects can be found at http://artificialworlds.net and his videos are at http://youtube.com/ajbalaam
Andy Thomason
Andy Thomason
Andy has been writing code for a while since he built his first computer from a bucket of post office relays in the '70s.
He has worked in games technology for a few decades with Sony and others and taught C++ programming to artists and programmers at Goldsmiths college.
More recently he is working in Oxford researching genetic variation and searching for potential drug targets for the decreasing number of difficult diseases that we still have to endure.
Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams is the author of C++ Concurrency in Action, and a UK-based developer, consultant and trainer with over 20 years of experience in C++. He has been an active member of the BSI C++ Standards Panel since 2001, and is author or coauthor of many of the C++ Standards Committee papers that led up to the inclusion of the thread library in the C++11 Standard. He continues to work on new facilities to enhance the C++ concurrency toolkit, both with standards proposals, and implementations of those facilities for the just::thread Pro extensions to the C++ thread library from Just Software Solutions Ltd. Anthony lives in the far west of Cornwall, England.
Arjan van Leeuwen
Arjan van Leeuwen is a software developer and team lead at browser maker Opera Software, working on its eponymous web browser for desktop platforms, mostly in C++. Reliability and speed are things that matter every day, but code quality is the subject that can really get him riled up. Arjan has worked on Opera Software’s flagship product, the Opera browser for computers, for over 10 years and has spoken regularly at ACCU conferences.
Arne Mertz
Arne Mertz has been working with modern and not-so-modern C++ code bases for over 10 years. He is a mentor and teacher for clean code and modern C++ for colleagues an customers at Zühlke Engineering. Since 2015 he writes frequently about those topics on his blog "Simplify C++!"
Austin Bingham
Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter, teacher, and author, as well as an active member of the open source community. Austin is the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, one of the largest and most active social software groups in the Stavanger region. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Björn Fahller
Björn wrote his first program in 1980, and programming has been the primary source of income since 1994, mostly from writing embedded software for communications systems.
Occasionally Björn has been seen tinkering with unorthodox software constructs, pondering "what can be done with this?" He lives in Stockholm
Burkhard Kloss
I only came to England to walk the Pennine Way… 25 years later I still haven’t done it. I did, though, get round to starting an AI company (spectacularly unsuccessful), joining another startup long before it was cool, learning C++, and spending a lot of time on trading floors building systems for complex derivatives. Sometimes hands on, sometimes managing people. Somewhere along the way I realised you can do cool stuff quickly in Python, and I’ve never lost my fascination with making machines smarter.
CB Bailey
CB is a software developer at Bloomberg. CB works in Bloomberg Application Services where they help application developers easily write and maintain software than integrates and communicates in robust and efficient ways.
CB’s previous career in software has included roles in such diverse areas as web technology, business intelligence, data warehousing, defence and radar.
CB understands the importance of optimal software practices and so has a keen interest in source control systems and best practices surrounding their use.
CB is a Git user, advocate and contributor and relishes the opportunity to slice through knotty problems with their git-fu and to teach others how to do the same.
Chris Oldwood
Chris is a freelance programmer who started out as a bedroom coder in the 80’s writing assembler on 8-bit micros; these days it’s enterprise grade technology in plush corporate offices. He also commentates on the Godmanchester duck race.
Christopher Di Bella
Christopher Di Bella is a Staff Software Engineer for Codeplay’s ComputeCpp Runtime Technology and a C++ teacher. He is a strong proponent for having the Concepts TS and the Ranges TS in C++20. Chris spends his days working on ComputeCpp, Codeplay’s implementation of SYCL; the Khronos implementation for the Parallel STL (using SYCL); and researching Parallel Ranges, which is an attempt to bring the aforementioned Ranges TS together with the parallel algorithms. He was previously a software developer for Nasdaq, and a tutor for UNSW Australia’s COMP6771 Advanced C++ Programming course in Sydney, Australia. In his spare time, Chris enjoys snowboarding, playing games, and watching films.
Christopher Simons
After many years as a programmer, Chris now lectures at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, in areas such as artificial intelligence and software development. Chris is interested in how software can learn from people, and vice versa, for mutual learning.
Dietmar Kühl
Dietmar Kühl is a senior software developer at Bloomberg L.P. working on the data distribution environment used both internally and by enterprise installations at clients. Before joining Blooomberg he has done mainly consulting for software projects in the finance area. He is a regular attendee of the ANSI/ISO C++ standards committee, presents at conferences, and he used to be a moderator of the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated. He frequently answers questions on Stackoverflow.
Dom Davis
Dom Davis is a veteran of The City and a casualty of The Financial Crisis. Not content with bringing the world to its knees he then went off to help break the internet before winding up in Norfolk where he messes about doing development and devops. Dom has been writing code since his childhood sometime in the last millennium – he hopes some day to become good at it.
Dom is an enthusiastic and impassioned speaker [read: he gabbles] who uses a blend of irreverent sarcasm and flippant humour to bring complex subjects to a broad audience. Whether or not they understand him is up for debate, but he likes to believe they do.
Eberhard Gräther
Eberhard Gräther is software developer, user experience designer and founder at Coati Software. He started programming C++ in his undergraduate CS degree at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, majoring in game development. During multiple internships in the Google Chrome Graphics and Performance Teams he worked on tools for rendering performance analysis. He then specialized in Human Computer Interaction and developer tooling during a Master’s degree, where he started working on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for faster understanding of unfamiliar source code.
Eoin Woods
Eoin Woods is the CTO of Endava, a technology company that delivers projects in the areas of digital, agile and automation. Prior to joining Endava, Eoin has worked in the software engineering industry for 20 years developing system software products and complex applications in the capital markets domain. His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems and computer security. He is co-author of the well known software architecture book “Software Systems Architecture” and was the recipient of the 2018 Linda M. Northrup Award for Software Architecture, awarded by the SEI at Carnegie Mellon University. Eoin can be contacted via his web site at www.eoinwoods.info.
Felix Petriconi
Felix Petriconi is working as a professional programmer since 1993 after he had finished his study of electrical engineering. He started his career as a teacher for intellectually gifted children, freelance programmer among others in telecommunication and automotive projects. Since 2003 he is employed as programmer and development manager at the MeVis Medical Solutions AG in Bremen, Germany. He is part of a team that develops and maintains radiological medical devices. His focus is on C++ development, training of C++11/14/17, and application performance tuning. He is a regular speaker at the C++ user group in Bremen, a blog editor of https://isocpp.org, a contributor to the https://stlab.cc concurrency library and a member of the ACCU’s conference committee.
Filip van laenen
Filip van Laenen is a chief architect at Computas, and has more than twenty years of experience as a Java developer and software architect. He joined JSR-385 last year as a contributor, but has until then been guilty of too many occasions of using primitive types to hold quantities.
Frances Buontempo
Frances Buontempo is currently editor of the ACCU’s Overload magazine and has written a book on Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning
After graduating from Leeds University with a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy, she worked as a mathematics and IT secondary school teacher, eventually ending up as a programmer. During this time she obtained an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics with the Open University, and then returned to Leeds University, to study for a PhD in data mining to predict how toxic organic chemicals might be. Between then and now, she has worked in various companies in London with a finance focus.
She has talked and written about various ways to program your way out of a paper bag, providing a gentle introduction to some machine learning approaches, while trying to keep up to date with new techniques.
Gail Ollis
I was a professional software developer for 20 years before asking “Why did they do THAT!?” one time too many and going off to take a psychology degree to try to find out. This led inexorably to PhD research at Bournemouth University, where I submitted my thesis "Helping programmers to help each other: a technique to facilitate understanding among professional software developers" in Autumn 2018.
Like many postgraduate researchers, I took on part-time teaching work while studying for the PhD. This uncovered a love of teaching that rapidly spiralled into a new career. I am now a full-time lecturer at Bournemouth, bringing interdisciplinary skills to teaching both programming and cyberpsychology.
George Corney
George has a physics background and currently works as contract software engineer specialising in computer graphics and GPU programming. He’s previously worked on rendering engines at Microsoft and developed projects for LG, the Met Office and Atlantic Productions. Outside of contract work he enjoys exploring techniques to improve the experience of software development and contributes to open source projects under the handle 'haxiomic'.
Giorgio Zoppi
Software Engineer. Graduate from Pisa University and worked in several multinational companies. Member of the team that created HP Latex 3000. Managed and implemented features in Gisiecke and Devrient Hardware Security Modules and now working in a new brand Fleet Management System.
Giovanni Asproni
Giovanni works as a Principal Consultant for Zuhlke Engineering in London. He has been helping software companies and teams become more successful for many years by providing consulting, training and advice, as well as coding, to projects of all sizes. He is both a frequent conference speaker, and organiser. He is a past Chair of the London XPDay and the ACCU conferences, the Industry & Practice co-chair for XP2016, and the Conference Chair for SPA 2018 and SPA 2019. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, and contributed to the book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, published by O’Reilly.
Greg Law
Greg is the co-founder and CTO of Undo. He has over 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start ups, NexWave and Solarflare. It was at Acorn that Greg met Julian and on evenings and weekends, they invented the core technology that would eventually become UndoDB. Greg left Solarflare in 2012 to perform a dual CEO/CTO role during the start-up years. Greg has overseen the company as it transitioned from his garden shed to a scalable award-winning business.
Greg lives in Cambridge, UK with his wife Alison and children Abi and Sam. In his spare time, Greg catches up on email.
Herb Sutter
Herb is an author, designer of several ISO C++ features, and chair of the ISO C++ committee and the Standard C++ Foundation.
Hubert Matthews
Hubert Matthews has been programming in C++ for over 20 years and he has been teaching it for 20 years. He also works as a systems architect and software consultant. He is a member of the UK BSI standards committee for C++. He lives in Oxford and in his abundant spare time he likes to pretend that he coaches rowing, dances salsa, dabbles with martial arts and drives too fast.
Ivan Čukić
Dr Ivan Čukić is the author of "Functional Programming in C++" (Manning Publications), core developer of the KDE project and teacher at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade.
James Cain
Dr James Westland Cain is Principal Architect – Software at Grass Valley, where he develops software to support collaborative workflows in both Film production and News and Sports Television. His work research interests include file systems innovation and browser based video production. He was granted a PhD in Advanced Software Engineering by Reading University and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Brunel University. He has numerous international patents granted, has published dozens of refereed academic papers and regularly speaks at industrial conferences.
Jean-Michaël Celerier
Jean-Michaël is a software developer at KDAB, where he works on projects using C++, Qt and OpenGL. He has been interested in C++ for 14 years and develops various open-source software for digital artists with modern C++ and Qt, in particular ossia score, a cross-platform intermedia sequencer. He is part of the Bordeaux C++ user group team.
Jez Higgins
Jez Higgins is a jobbing programmer so dedicated to the cause of software craftsmanship he once cycled to the conference from Birmingham. He’ll be 50 next birthday, but it’s not nagging at him or anything. He can be contacted for programming assistance or hockey coaching at jez@jezuk.co.uk or @jezhiggins.
Jim Hague
After spending 13 years developing applications for Czech Air Traffic Control, Jim bailed out in 2016 and landed in the world of DNS. He now spends his workdays coding while sitting between two DNS RFC authors, and by the time the conference rolls round may be one himself.
John Lakos
John Lakos, author of Large-Scale C++ Software Design, and more recently his new book Large-Scale C++—Volume I: Process and Architecture, serves at Bloomberg LP in New York City as a senior architect and mentor for C++ Software Development world-wide. He is also an active voting member of the C++ Standards Committee’s Evolution Working Group. Previously, Dr. Lakos directed the design and development of infrastructure libraries for proprietary analytic financial applications at Bear Stearns. For 12 years prior, Dr. Lakos developed large frameworks and advanced ICCAD applications at Mentor Graphics, for which he holds multiple software patents. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Computer Science ('97) and an Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering ('89) from Columbia University. Dr. Lakos received his undergraduate degrees from MIT in Mathematics ('82) and Computer Science ('81).
Jonathan Boccara
Jonathan Boccara is a Principal Engineering Lead at Murex where he works on a large codebase in C++, and has to read code all the time. His primary focus is searching how to make code more expressive, either by writing clear code or by finding ways to understand existing code. He has dedicated his blog, Fluent C++, to the topic of expressive code in C++, and blogs frequently. Jonathan also gives internal trainings on C++ every day, in the short format called "Dailies".
Jonathan Pallant
Jonathan is an Embedded Systems Engineer, member of the Embedded Rust Working Group and founder of the Cambridge Rust Meetup.
Kate Gregory
Kate Gregory has been using C++ for over thirty years. She writes, teaches, mentors, codes, and leads projects, primarily in C++. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, has written over a dozen books, and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Kate develops courses on C++, Visual Studio, and Windows programming for Pluralsight, is active on over a dozen StackExchange sites, blogs infrequently, and is happy to be part of C++ Twitter and the #include Discord server.
Katharina Fey
Katharina lives in Berlin and works as a software engineer at Ferrous Systems. She’s an avid open source contributer and has been working in the Rust ecosystem since 2017. She is author of many crates and active community member. Currently she’s part of the CLI working group, the community team, and generally interested in making developer experiences in Rust more ergonomic.
Kevlin Henney
Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online.
M Angela Sasse
M Angela Sasse FREng is the Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, and the Department of Computer Science at University College London, UK. A usability researcher by training, she started investigating the causes and effects of usability issues with security mechanisms 20 years ago. In addition to studying specific mechanisms such as passwords, biometrics, access control, and encryption, her research has pioneered approaches to engaging employees, consumers and more recently developers and board members to build more effective security and privacy solutions. She was been the founding Director of the multidisciplinary UK Research Institute for Science of Cyber Security (RISCS) from 2012–2017, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy on Engineering in 2015.
Marshall Clow
Marshall has been programming professionally for 35 years. He is the author of Boost.Algorithm, and has been a contributor to Boost for more than 15 years. He is the chairman of the Library working group of the C++ standard committee. He is the lead developer for libc++, the C++ standard library for LLVM.
Mateusz Pusz
Software architect, chief engineer, and security champion with more than 14 years of experience in designing, writing and maintaining C++ code for fun and living. C++ consultant, trainer, and evangelist focused on Modern C++. His main areas of interest and expertise are code performance, low latency, stability, and security.
Mateusz worked at Intel for 13 years and now he leads C++ Community at EPAM Systems. He is also a founder of Train IT that provides C++ trainings to corporations. Mateusz is an active voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21) where, together with the best C++ experts in the world, he shapes the next official version of the C++ language. He is also a member of WG21 Study Group 14 (SG14) responsible for driving performance and low latency subjects in the Committee. In 2013 Mateusz won “Bench Games 2013” – worldwide competition in the C++ language knowledge.
Mathieu Ropert
French C++ expert working on (somewhat) historical video games. Decided to upgrade his compiler once and has been blogging about build systems ever since. Past speaker at CppCon, Meeting C++ and ACCU. Used to run the Paris C++ User Group. Currently lives in Sweden.
Michael Wong
Michael Wong is the Vice President of Research and Development at Codeplay Software, a Scottish company that produces compilers, debuggers, runtimes, testing systems, and other specialized tools to aid software development for heterogeneous systems, accelerators and special purpose processor architectures, including GPUs and DSPs. He is now a member of the open consortium group known as Khronos and is Chair of the C++ Heterogeneous Programming language SYCL, used for GPU dispatch in native modern C++ (14/17), OpenCL, as well as guiding the research and development teams of ComputeSuite, ComputeAorta/ComputeCPP. For twenty years, he was the Senior Technical Strategy Architect for IBM compilers.
He is a member of the ISO C++ Directions Group (DG), and the Canadian Head of Delegation to the ISO C++ Standard and a past CEO of OpenMP. He is also a Director and VP of ISOCPP.org, and Chair of all Programming Languages for Canada’s Standard Council. He has so many titles, it’s a wonder he can get anything done. He chairs WG21 SG14 Games Development/Low Latency/Financial/Embedded Devices and WG21 SG5 Transactional Memory, and is the co-author of a book on C++ and a number of C++/OpenMP/Transactional Memory features including generalized attributes, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, weakly ordered memory models, and explicit conversion operators. Having been the past C++ team lead to IBM’s XL C++ compiler means he has been messing around with designing the C++ language and C++ compilers for twenty-five years. His current research interest, i.e. what he would like to do if he had time is in the area of parallel programming, future programming models for Neural network, AI, Machine vision, safety/critical/ programming vulnerabilities, self-driving cars and low-power devices, lock-free programming, transactional memory, C++ benchmark performance, object model, generic programming and template metaprogramming. He holds a B.Sc from University of Toronto, and a Masters in Mathematics from University of Waterloo.
He has been asked to speak/keynote at many conferences, companies, research centers, universities, including CPPCON, Bloomberg, U of Houston, U of Toronto, ACCU, C++Now, Meeting C++, ADC++, CASCON, Bloomberg, CERN, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, FAU Erlangen, LSU, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Texas A&M University, Parallel, KIT School, CGO, IWOMP/IWOCL, Code::dive, many C++ Users group meetings, Euro TM Graduate School, and Going Native. He is the current Editor for the Concurrency TS and the Transactional Memory TS. http://wongmichael.com/about
Natalia Oskina
Russian-born Software Engineer. Started Computer Science education in Russia, specialised in Software Engineering in London. Addicted to travelling and new technologies. Artist and dancer at heart. Desires to explore how deep the security rabbit hole goes.
Neil Horlock
Neil has 20+ years in financial services most of it spent in C++ of some description (not always good); working in a variety of roles from low latency/high-frequency trading systems to information security and architecture. He is currently working as an independent consultant and speaker and has run training courses and is a contributing analyst for the Tabb Group where he is typically engaged for FinTech company analysis and more obscure technical subjects such as Quantum Computing. Neil is a member of the ISO and BSI C++ panels.
Outside of work, Neil is an active STEM Ambassador, and currently runs two code clubs, one at a local school and another as part of the Kent County Libraries Digital Dens initiative to bring STEM skills into deprived communities.
Niall Douglas
Niall is the author of Boost.Outcome, one of the founding signatories of WG21 P1026 A call for an `Elsewhere Memory' study group, and the primary champion of WG21 P1031 Low level file i/o library amongst half a dozen of his other currently live WG21 (C++) and WG14 (C) proposal papers.
Patricia Aas
Patricia is a programmer who has worked mostly in C++ and Java. She has spent her career continuously delivering from the same code-base to a large user base, from working on two browsers (Opera and Vivaldi), to working on embedded telepresence endpoints for Cisco. She is focused on the maintainability and flexibility of software architecture, and how to extend it to provide cutting edge user experiences. Her focus on the end users has led her work more and more toward privacy and security, and she has recently started her own company, TurtleSec, hoping to contribute positively to the infosec and C++ communities. She is also involved in the #include<C++> organization hoping to improve diversity and inclusion in the C++ community.
Paul Grenyer
Paul is the CEO at Naked Element and a founder and organiser of Norfolk Developers (nor(DEV)), founder and one time organiser of SyncNorwich and one time ACCU member and committee member. Paul has been working in the software industry for nearly 20 years and has 15 years of programming experience prior to that.
Having worked with all sorts of companies from small startups and SMEs to global investment banks and insurers, Paul has seen many different types of software developed in every way you can imagine, some which worked and some which didn’t.
Paul is also the chair of nor(DEV):con, the biggest software development conference in the East of England.
Peter Bindels
Peter is a C++ developer known for writing HippoMocks and cpp-dependencies, and less well known for encouraging C++ both for beginners and for uncommon target areas (OS development, embedded, server-side). He likes to rethink the basics of what we take for granted to see if new ideas emerge, and to see where previously-old ideas are now new discoveries.
Peter Sommerlad
Prof. Peter Sommerlad is director of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil, Switzerland. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns and contributed to "97 things every programmer should know". His goal is to make software simpler and safer by Decremental Development: Refactoring software down to 10% its size with better architecture, testability and quality and functionality. To reach that goal his team and students created the C++ IDE Cevelop. Peter is a member of MISRA-C++, Hillside, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, SI, ACCU, and the ISO C++ standardization committee.
Phil Nash
Phil Nash is the author of the test frameworks, Catch – for C++ (and Objective-C), and Swordfish for Swift. As Developer Advocate at JetBrains he’s involved with CLion, AppCode and ReSharper C++. He’s previously worked in Finance and Mobile as well as an independent consultant and coach specialising in TDD on iOS.
Roger Orr
Roger has many years of experience in IT, using a variety of languages and platforms, working for a number of different companies over the years, mostly in the financial sector. His recent work has mostly been in C++, on both Windows and Linux.
Roger has been a member of ACCU since 1999; he’s on the ACCU committee, the ACCU conference committee, the Overload review team, and runs the Code Critique section of CVu. He also writes the occasional article for CVu and Overload.
He is chair of the UK C++ panel and a member of the 'Direction Group' which recommends priorities for the ISO C++ standardisation committee.
Rosemary Francis
Dr Rosemary Francis is an expert in I/O profiling and high-performance computing with a PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She is a regular speaker at conferences including IEEE and Linux foundation events and sits on the advisory board for the Ideaspace startup accelerator and the Raspberry Pi foundation. Rosemary founded Ellexus, the I/O profiling company, after working in the semiconductor industry. Today Ellexus provides unique application and cluster monitoring tools to commercial and research organisations around the world, helping them to optimise their applications and manage their IT infrastructure.
Sas Luca
I am a student at the University of Leeds and main developer of Medicus. I love programming languages and high performance. My current toy project is a compile time NES emulator.
Simon Brand
Simon is Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Their background is in compilers and debuggers for embedded accelerators, but they’re also interested in generic library design, metaprogramming, functional-style C++, undefined behaviour, and making our communities more welcoming and inclusive.
Find them on Twitter @TartanLlama and on their blog at blog.tartanllama.xyz.
Stephen Kelly
Stephen Kelly has many years of experience in Free Software and open source with significant contributions to KDE, CMake, and Qt over many years.
More recently he has been contributing to Clang Tooling APIs, adding new features to clang-tidy and clang-query as well as third-party tools.
Supriya Srivatsa
An engineer and innovator, Supriya finds both thrill and solace in exploring and tinkering with new technologies. She has been involved with android app development lately and is a Kotlin enthusiast. She loves participating in hackathons, breathing life into ideas to create tangible products. She has won hackathons like Digital India Hackathon, WinTathon by LinkedIn, IndiaHacks - FinTech, etc. She is very fond of engaging in technical discussions and musings.
Thomas Guest
@thomasguest is an experienced and enthusiastic software developer. He works for Clinithink in South Wales, where he wrestles to extract meaning from medical records using C++ and Python. In his spare time he enjoys puzzles, running and noodles. His website is wordaligned.org.
Timur Doumler
Timur Doumler is a C++ developer specialising in audio and music technology. Timur is an active member of the ISO C++ committee and the includecpp.org organisation team. He is passionate about writing clean code, providing good tools, and building inclusive communities.
Uberto Barbini
Uberto is a polyglot programmer and independent consultant, with more than 20 years experience designing and building successful software products, currently working with finance institutions in London. He is a very passionate and opinionated programmer, he enjoys public speaking and blogging. Uberto’s main interests are Jvm languages, Functional Programming and distributed computing. Currently in love with Kotlin. He firmly believe in Agile Manifesto values and principles and he is practicing TDD since 2000.
Victor Ciura
Victor Ciura is a Senior Software Engineer at CAPHYON and Technical Lead on the Advanced Installer team (http://www.advancedinstaller.com). For over a decade, he designed and implemented several core components and libraries of Advanced Installer.
He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures & workshops on “Using C++STL for Competitive Programming and Software Development”.
Currently, he spends most of his time working with his team on improving and extending the repackaging and virtualization technologies in Advanced Installer IDE, helping clients migrate their Win32 desktop apps to the Windows Store (AppX/MSIX).
Viktor Kirilov
With 4 years of professional experience with C++ in the games and VFX industries, Viktor currently spends his time writing open source software (since 01.01.2016) - and occasionally doing some contract work. He is the author of doctest - "The fastest feature-rich C++11 single-header testing framework". His interests are the making of games and game engines, high performance code, data oriented design, optimizing workflows and incorporating good practices in the software development process such as testing and the use of modern tools like static analysis or instrumentation. Viktor is from Sofia, Bulgaria and his profession is his hobby. Personal website: http://onqtam.com/
Vittorio Romeo
Vittorio Romeo is a C++ enthusiast from a young age, now with a BS in Computer Science from the "Università degli Studi di Messina". While following the evolution of the C++ standard and embracing the newest features, he worked on several open-source projects, including modern general-purpose libraries and free cross-platform indie games. Vittorio is an active member of the C++ community, speaking at many conferences and events. He currently maintains a YouTube channel featuring well-received modern C++11 and C++14 tutorials. When he’s not writing code, Vittorio enjoys weightlifting and fitness-related activities, competitive/challenging computer gaming and good sci-fi movies/TV-series.
Wouter van Ooijen
Wouter van OOijen is a software engineer by profession and a hardware tinkerer by passion. He got his degree in Informatics from the Delft University of Technology. He has worked on embedded systems for industry, space, and military applications. Currently he teaches at the Technical Informatics section of the Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands. His main interest is the borderline between hardware and software.
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