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Ayan Gupta
Ayan Gupta is a Developer & AI Advocate at Microsoft/Github and a Forbes Under 30 honoree. He helps developers and organizations adopt AI-powered tools and modern development practices through technical content, conference talks, workshops, and community engagement. With a background spanning software development, entrepreneurship, and emerging technologies, Ayan is passionate about making complex concepts accessible […]
David Sanchez
David Sanchez is Director of Go-to-Market for Developer Audience at Microsoft, where he drives strategy across the Azure and GitHub developer ecosystem. A Computer Systems Engineer with 15+ years in technology, David has worked across engineering, developer relations, consulting, marketing, sales, and go-to-market execution. His technical focus includes Azure, GitHub, DevOps, platform engineering, developer productivity, […]
Dona Sarker
Dona Sarkar is a longtime Microsoft technology leader, author and international speaker whose work focuses on AI, Copilot and helping people and organizations turn emerging technology into practical outcomes. Her Microsoft career has included leadership roles across AI advocacy, accessibility, Power Platform and the Windows Insider Program.
Dan Wahlin
Dan Wahlin is a Principal/Sr. Director at Microsoft working on agentic AI scenarios across Azure and GitHub. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Dan creates training courses for Pluralsight, speaks at conferences and meetups around the world, and offers webinars on a variety of technical topics. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dan led a consulting, […]
Michael Hladky
Michael Hladky is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and Nx Champion with a deep focus on web performance, scalability, and AI-powered development. As CEO of PushBased, he helps teams and organizations design streamlined architectures, build blazing-fast applications, and establish modern, secure, and highly productive development environments. With years of experience as an enterprise consultant and […]
Kim Maida
Kim is the Head of Developer Relations and Founding GTM Engineer working on security for agents at Keycard. Kim’s career is rooted in Identity, software engineering, and developer experience strategy. She enjoys teaching, mentoring, and learning from folks in the product technology space and loves to travel, overland, design stickers, and craft miniatures and artisan […]
Felipe Perez
Felipe Perez is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he builds reliable AI agents, connectors, and high-trust products. Previously, he spent more than four years at Meta working on VR, recommendations, and developer infrastructure.
Soumya Gupta
Soumya Gupta is a Tech Lead and Applied AI Engineer at Uber, where she architects and scales production-grade Generative AI and Computer Vision solutions. Her work focuses on deploying agentic orchestration, multimodal modeling, and core machine learning primitives at global scale.
Tracy Lee
Tracy is the CEO and Chief Technologist at This Dot Labs, a consultancy focused on helping leaders achieve their most ambitious digital initiatives through technology leadership and engineering talent. She is also a Github Star, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, RxJS Core Team member, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. You can find her […]