Master of Ceremonies

ADITYA MUKERJEE

Aditya is a systems engineer based in New York City. He studied statistics at Columbia and computer science at Cornell, and has been writing Go professionally for the past ten years. When not defending users against online fraudsters, he spends his free time playing German-style board games and listening to embarrassing music.

GILAD WEISS

Gilad is Rookout’s Software Architect. He is the office’s resident expert on cloud-native, including Golang, Kubernetes, and Docker. During his military service, he was the first in his sector to use cloud software, specifically Azure. When not writing cool features, you can find him baking and writing comedic sketches.

EGON ELBRE

Egon Elbre is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience. He started playing with Go just after the first public announcement and has hung around since then. He loves finding new ways of looking at code such that it would be easier to maintain, understand and, most of all, ensure that it delivers value. He strongly believes that there are explanations that help people learn and be productive faster. When he's not neck deep in code he's either drawing or playing the piano.

KEMAL AKKOYUN

Kemal Akkoyun is a Senior Software Engineer at Polar Signals. He is one of the maintainers of Prometheus/client_golang and Thanos. Kemal is interested in Go, eBPF, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and performance engineering. He likes building profilers, distributed systems, databases, and observability infrastructure. Besides work, he likes to spend time with his family and he occasionally enjoys having a cup of coffee or a good single malt.

DONIA CHAIEHLOUDJ

Donia is a backend software engineer with 5 years of experience developing Go distributed systems in cloud environments. Having moved recently from the aerospatial field to a startup, she is building the camera of the metaverse by developing a social gaming app named Powder.

Before that, she graduated from electrical and industrial computer science with a special interest in image processing, which leads her now to explore the IoT features of Go.

Passionate by tech and people, Donia discovered tech communities, which motivated her to founding and organising the Google Developer Group Sophia-Antipolis. Striving for diversity, she is actively involved in a local women-in-tech organisation

ANNA-KATHARINA WICKERT

Anna is a Ph.D. candidate at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Currently, she focuses on API misuses that can cause vulnerabilities, e.g., cryptographic or unsafe APIs, and analyses to support developers in avoiding those. In her free time, she re-started and organizes the Frankfurt Rhein-Main chapter of the Go user group, enjoys Yoga sessions, and learning something new.

TAMIR BAHAR

KONRAD REICHE

Konrad is a software engineer at Reddit — the front page of the internet. He works for the ranking platform team creating a ranking system which enables other teams to launch their own content pipelines. He studied Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin and has spent most of his career in startups. His first Go application was jukebox powered through Slack running on a Raspberry Pi.

YARDEN LAIFENFELD

Yarden Laifenfeld is a Software Engineer at Rookout. With a deep background in C and embedded Linux environments, you can find her in the office jumping between 6 different programming languages a day. When she’s not busy developing new features and helping out clients, she loves learning about new technology, creating iOS apps and making everything she can automated.

MARIAN MONTAGNINO

Marian is a polyglot developer at Netflix coding in Java, Javascript and Go. While continuing to develop in other languages, Golang remains her favorite. She's been coding in Go since 2014 within the media, beauty, and logistic industries and currently in cloud infrastructure at Netflix. Marian earned a dual BS degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) and MS in Applied Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ). She loves hiking, painting and reading books on religion, spirituality and science.

CAMERON BALAHAN

Cameron is a product manager and the product lead for Go at Google. Before Go, Cameron led Google Cloud's programming languages support and integrations and, before Google, he led a high frequency market making firm where he built low latency trading systems in C and C++. He likes Go more.

THAN MCINTOSH

Than McIntosh is a member of Go's compiler + runtime team. He has worked on modernizing the Go linker and on the recent register ABI effort; currently he is working on overhauling Go's code coverage testing tools.

MICHAEL KNYSZEK

Michael is a software engineer at Google working on the Go runtime. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he's contributed to the project for almost 4 years, and he's particularly passionate about memory management. When not at work, he enjoys playing with his dog, producing music, and story-driven video games.

ROBERT BURKE

Robert has avidly played with Go for fun since 2009, and lately gets to do it for work, which he finds terribly exciting. When he isn't deferring some cleanup, or spinning up goroutines, playing D&D and Destiny 2, a bit of running, and sometimes rock climbing indoors. He's yet to conceive of an elegant way to combine all his interests at once, but he'll get there.

BILL KENNEDY

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

MIKI TEBEKA

Miki is an old Gopher and even older developer :) He spends his time teaching (either via his company or via ArdanLabs), writing books, creating video courses, blogging and of course - writing code (either open source or for customers). Miki is one of the organizers of GopherCon Israel and the Go Israel Meetup.

RONNA STEINBERG

Ronna is an Engineering Manager at Delivery Hero, a Google developer expert for the Go programming language, a Women Who Go organizer and GoTime’s unpopular opinion hall of famer. After 20 years in tech Ronna knows that she is the sum of the opportunities that were given to her, which is why she spends her time helping others find opportunity. She has been crafting hands-on workshops in Go since 2017 and is looking forward to seeing you in her upcoming new workshop “A Path to Object Oriented Design in Go

MOHAMMED AL SAHAF

Mohammed S. Al Sahaf is a product manager by day, gopher and student in the evenings. He created Caddy SSH and maintains the Caddy nginx-adapter and transform-encoder.