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Software development is a craft, with techniques passed down and honed, while new techniques are created.
Heroku's Waza is a free developer event for the study of technique.
Join us in San Francisco for a series of workshops, talks, and interaction around technique, in a unique venue.
Adam (@hirodusk) is a hacker and entrepreneur to the core. His constant reflection on the art of software development has led to numerous projects to improve life for developers, the most important being the Heroku platform itself.
Rob (@rob_pike) is a software pioneer. His influence is everywhere: Unix, Plan 9 OS, The Unix Programming Environment book, UTF-8, and most recently the Go programming language.
Corey (@coreyhaines) is a true software journeyman. His year of travelling the world coding for rent built expert knowledge that he is happy to communicate with other developers and businessmen to improve the craft of software development.
Wesley (@geemus) is an open-source expert. His leadership for Fog, a popular Ruby cloud service library, stands as a shining example of engineering, extensibility, usability and community.
Tim (@timmilliron) is the Director of Engineering for Twilio's X-Team, responsible for all things Twilio & user-facing, including Twilio's API. Tim comes from cloud computing's polar opposite: Pixar, where he spent twelve years leading teams that did everything under the sun, from film production to internal tools development.
Darin (@darinrs) is the senior manager of New Relic's A-team agent engineers who produce monitoring and diagnostic tools for production Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and .NET applications. In his free time he will be out running the roads and trails of whatever corner of the world he happens to currently be in.
Josh (@joshkalderimis) is a serial coder. A ruby expert and Rails contributor, he offers his expertise towards the bigger picture of integration. Travis CI ties numerous services together into a distributed build system for the open source community.
Troy (@troyd) lives and breathes software as a service. He first built Cloudvox, an API for telephone calls. He now runs Papertrail, hosted log management and analysis for other cloud services.
Mathias (@roidrage) is an infrastructure mad man. He is the author of the Riak Handbook and the NoSQL Handbook, hands-on books for Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB, Riak and Cassandra.
Isaac (@izs) is a node core contributor. He is the author of npm, and several other node modules. He has strange and wonderful ideas he'd love to share, given the chance.
Chris (@em_csquared) is master Rubyist. His latest work on the Heroku Add-ons platform lets him use his expertise to connect countless service providers with a vast reach of application developers.
David (@ddollar) is an all-around badass engineer. His knowledge of infrastructure and UI alike makes him perfect for leading the charge to develop powerful and friendly development tools.
Morten (@mortenheroku) is a service junkie. He spends his time working with other companies to best understand how to think about their product as a cloud service and deliver it to as many developers as possible.
Ryan (@ryandotsmith) is an ace hacker. Challenged with handling all of Heroku’s second-to-second billing, Ryan breaks the task down into fundamentals and shares his results with everyone through open-source libraries like QueueClassic.
Peter (@pvh) is a scientist. By day and by night, he runs Heroku Postgres, the largest and most reliable Postgres service in the world. But he will happily share his knowledge on any subject, from oceanography to coffee roasting.