Claire Wood

Solutionista / Keynote Speaker

Two decades of creating software in financial services and the thrill of seeing solutions come to life is still there. An enthusiastic champion of gender parity in STEM education, and inclusion in software development. She once built a LEGO Death Star.

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi

Google Developer Expert for Android

Moyinoluwa is an Android Engineer who enjoys exploring the latest technologies in Android Development. She loves sharing her knowledge by writing technical articles and speaking at developer events. She also cares a lot about building apps that look good and work well on all devices.

Julien Salvi

Senior Android Engineer @ InnovOrder

Into the Android development since Froyo when Fragment was just a myth, former Android engineer at CINEMUR, I am currently working at InnovOrder as Senior Android Engineer where we are bringing restaurants to the next level.
Besides that, I am a world traveller and a beer lover always looking for the best IPAs!

Lauren Green

Android Engineer + Designer @ Snapp Mobile

Lauren is an Android Engineer & Designer who works at Snapp Mobile, she likes to think of herself as a unicorn 🦄.  Lauren codes in Kotlin and her dream is to create Android apps that are seamless and easy to use from a UX perspective and that combine beautiful and up to date UI 🤓. 

Lauren lives in the beautiful city of Cape Town and loves the outdoors, experiencing new cultures and travelling! 🌍

Nhlanhla Lucky Nkosi

Research & Development Software Engineer at BBD / Social Cohesion Advocate at the South African National Department of Arts and Culture

I work as a Software Engineer in the R&D team of a company called BBD in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have experience in building and maintaining enterprise banking software with varying tech-stacks; all the way from VB6 and .Net to web and cloud technologies.

One of my biggest interests is education, particularly using technology to create meaningful educational experiences. To feed this passion, I am currently pursuing a post-graduate degree in Game Design with a focus on educational games from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Juan Herrera

Google Developer Expert in Angular and Web Technologies

Google Developer Expert in Angular and Web Technologies. Founder of Angular Medellin, and co-founder of NgColombia (the first Angular conference in Latin America).

Juan enjoys public speaking and MCing events.

Koketso Motseothata

Billionaire Developers

B.Sc computer science and mathematics
Code tutor and mentor
Robotics engineer

Dale Humby

CTO, Nomanini

Dale is the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Nomanini, a South African-based technology provider dedicated to building the tools needed to facilitate cash payments in informal markets.

He is a Google Developers Expert with a wealth of knowledge building financial systems on Google Cloud Platform.

Rizwan Javaid

Sr. User Experience Design Consultant

Rizwan is a Senior User Experience Design Consultant at Slalom. He combines his background in UX, visual design, and front-end web development to create effective designs that balance technical, business, and user needs.

Rizwan’s design experience includes delivering profitable results for organizations in a variety of industries such as commerce, B2B (business-to-business), retail, and transportation.

He has a passion for sketching and leads fun and inspiring workshops at conferences, businesses, schools, and meetups for audiences worldwide. Rizwan is on a mission to help the world harness the power of sketching so everyone can bring their amazing ideas to life. Yes, you too can be a sketching machine! :)

Brittany Wagenaar

Data Science Associate, Luno

Whether at work or in her personal life, Brittany loves to analyse the underlying meaning in what people say. Brittany started her career at a Big Data Lab, where she primarily focused on market basket analysis and finding habits in consumer purchasing behaviour. After moving to Cape Town, Brittany entered the FinTech industry and joined the Luno data team. Here she spends most of her time working with operational data and analysing customer text data through sentiment analysis and text classification techniques. She loves to pursue the mystical relationship between words, using pre-trained word embeddings and Neural Networks.

When she’s not wrangling data, Brittany can be found enjoying a glass of wine in the sunshine.

Rosário Pereira Fernandes

Mobile App Developer @ MozDevz

Rosário Pereira Fernandes is a Mobile App Developer at MozDevz and Organizer at GDG Maputo.

Rosário has made many contributions to the Firebase Open Source Community and answered hundreds of questions on StackOverflow. He generally helps developers improving the way they develop their apps.

When he's not doing one of these things, he enjoys playing video games.

Nick Rout

Developer Advocate (Material Design) at Google

Nick Rout is a Developer Advocate for Material Design at Google. Previously he was a full-time Android Engineer and GDE. He is focussed on assisting and working with developers in implementing Material Design on Android. He originates from Cape Town, South Africa and is now based in Munich, Germany.

Jossi Wolf

Android Developer @Snapp Mobile

Jossi is an Android Developer at Snapp Mobile. Jossi graduated high school in 2018 and has been working on many projects, including software for startups as well as car manufacturers. As a GDG Organiser and part of Women Tech Makers Hamburg, he is working on a project bringing coding classes to schools using several new approaches. Jossi also loves Kotlin and Rabbits!

Gergana Young

Astromech Mechanic

Gergana Young is a South African software developer, Microsoft MVP, adventurer and Star Wars geek extraordinaire. Intending on making a career of reprogramming astromech droids with JavaScript, she abandoned the Imperial Academy. After many hours spent in the world of .NET, JavaScript, Angular and web components, she finally found her place in the software world. As a co-organiser of the Johannesburg JavaScript user group, Jozi.js, and a MVP in IoT she spends her spare time building cool software for "things". Her favourite area of research is the convergence of the web and Internet-of-Things.

Obinna Ekwuno

Software Engineer @ Gatsby / Cloudinary Media Developer Expert

Obinna Ekwuno is a Software Engineer with a passion for teaching currently working on the DevRel team at Gatsby. He is passionate about the African tech ecosystem and enjoys writing and listening to poetry. He believes wider conversations can change the world. He is mostly nerding out about Web accessibility and web performance.

Sam Richard

Advocate for the Web, Chrome OS, and good food

Sam Richard, better known as Snugug throughout the Internet, is a developer with design tendencies and a love of building open source tools to help with both. Sam geeks out on content strategy, team process, and cultural transformation. His social media feed, though, is mostly food.

Sam is currently working at Google to help companies build and deliver their web applications for Chrome and Chrome OS.

Fadzayi Chiwandire

Founder @ DIV:A Initiativ / Front-end Developer @ OnePointFour Consulting

Fadzayi Chiwandire is a Front-end Developer at OnePointFour Consulting in Johannesburg South Africa, and also Founder of the DIV:A Initiative a non-profit initiative dedicated to empowering young girls between the ages of 8 and 18 years from disadvantaged communities with coding skills, in order to protect their futures and address the industry’s gender imbalance.

Jade Abbott

Machine Learning Engineer at Retro Rabbit

Jade Abbott is a Machine Learning engineer at Retro Rabbit. She's built software for every field from social upliftment to banking, working on projects throughout Africa. Her current project involves training and deploying deep learning system to perform a variety of NLP tasks for real life systems - from training the models, to scaling them in production. In her free time, she does ML research on Machine Translation for African languages, co-founding Masakhane.io initiative

Chantelle Withfield

UX/UI Designer

Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. Her passion is human-centred and inclusive design.

She believes that final design decisions should come from a solid UX strategy backed by comprehensive research. She is also of the belief that it is necessary for people of varying identities, perspectives, circumstances and experiences to be included in the research and design ideation process for inclusive decision making to take place.

Aman Jain

Engineering Lead at Facebook's Innovation Lab

I'm an engineering lead at Facebook's innovation lab. Previously I was the founding engineer on WhatsApp Business Platform, the first backend engineer on Instagram Live, and a pre-IPO hire / tech-lead at Twitter Ads.

I'm also a pilot and enjoying flying around the bay area.