Adrián has been involved in the software industry for 10+ years, working both in web and mobile apps. GDG Guatemala, GuatemalaJS and Nodebots former co-organizer. Currently he leads the Innovation Lab at Galileo University and is a Google Developer Expert(GDE) for Android, IoT and Firebase.

Andres Colubri is a researcher working in the visualization and modeling of biomedical data, as well as with interactive graphics applied to arts and design. He originally obtained a doctoral degree in mathematics back in his native Argentina, and later pursued an MFA at the Design Media Arts department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Processing project, a programming language, environment, and community focused on making code-based art. He is currently developing the next version of Processing for Android, which includes support for wearable devices and VR.

Annyce is an Android Google Developer Expert. She has spent the past 6 years developing applications for the Android ecosystem across multiple form factors. She is also a international conference speaker and author, sharing her knowledge of Android development with others. In addition, Annyce is active in the Washington, DC tech scene and assists with running a local meetup focused on Android development and design.

Caren is currently working on the Android team on June Oven, building the first truly smart oven to help anybody cook! Previously she worked at VSCO, helping build and support the Android app for over 5 million users. Caren has taught a few Android classes through organizations such as Women Who Code and also AP Computer Science for high school students.

Think of an Android expert. Why do you consider this person an expert? “She knows a lot about Android”, you say. But how do you know? You know because she shares her knowledge, through blogs, talks, StackOverflow etc.Experts are just that, people who share their knowledge. Sharing puts you in a positive feedback loop: the more you share, the more knowledgeable you become. Let me walk you through some concrete steps you can take to start sharing and build up your expertise.

Daniel is an Android Software Engineer at Groupon. He is a passionate Science geek with special interest in performance, design and security. Before joining Groupon, he worked as a Web and Android developer for 6 years, participating in the development of some Android applications such as Hostelworld, Bonobu and now Groupon. He is keen on contributing to the community by writing articles and collaborating on some open source projects: Toothpick, Dart & Henson, etc. Moreover, he has taken part in some conferences: Berlin Droidcon 2016, Mobile Era 2016 or AndDevCon San Francisco 2016.

Dave Smith is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on IoT and the Android Things platform. Dave has been working with the Android stack at all levels since 2009, developing custom applications and system components to run Android on embedded platforms or interact with external embedded devices. He has a passion for making devices, and developers, smarter.

Doug is a Developer Advocate at Google for Firebase Test Lab, Firebase Crash Reporting, Firebase Storage, and new developer tools to be launched in the near future. He speaks around the world to Android developers. Doug also hosts a talk show for developers called #MeetFirebase. He enjoys blogging and creating inspirational, instructional video content.

Doug Stevenson and other Firebase experts!

Eliza is an Android developer at Pixplicity and a student at the Faculty of Automation and Robotics Engineering in Thessaloniki. Her big passion is to explore and play with new technologies while she enjoys traveling, and attending conferences and meetups.

Eric Brynsvold is an Android Developer on the Mobile Core team at Atlassian, empowering the HipChat, JIRA and Confluence development teams to ship great products! Prior to working for Atlassian, he worked for mobile agencies working with a variety of clients, including Under Armour, Union Bank and HomeAway. Before getting into mobile development, Eric worked at National Instruments where, among other things, he served as an instructor and course developer of classes for his fellow engineers. Away from work, you can find Eric behind a camera, in the kitchen, or at a baseball game..

Garima is an IIT Jodhpur (India) post-graduate (M.Tech) and currently working as an Android Developer in Fueled Digital Media Ltd having experience of around 4 years in this domain. She has worked with some of the top tech startups and high profile clients such as Quizup, Porsche, Venturebeats, Gilt, HBO, Chicago Bulls, Kapture, KeyMe, Ducati, Rite Aid, Afterlight and more.

On paper, Giorgio Natili is an engineering lead at Akamai Technologies where he spearheads the implementation of the new web apps for the security products line of Akamai and leads the development of a mobile SDK. On the job, Giorgio is a strong proponent of agile development practices whose passion for usable, maintainable and testable code is only surpassed by his determination to make things work. His previous speaking engagements include Adobe Max, 360|Flex, FITC, Mobile Web Dev Conference, Mobile Tea, Agile Alliance Conference, Codemotion, etc.

Hod is a Developer Advocate for Couchbase, living in Silicon Valley. He has over two decades of experience as a software engineer and engineering manager. He has worked in a variety of software fields, focusing on mobile for the last seven. Prior to joining Couchbase in 2016, Hod led developer relations for mobile at Samsung.

Huyen Tue Dao is an Android developer and Google Developer Expert, currently working on the Android team at Trello. Huyen is co-creator of the “Android Dialogs” YouTube channel which features interviews with people in the Android community. She lives in Denver, CO, though is often found in the DC Metro area. When she is not up late programming, she is often found up late gaming (video, board, card, anything).

Ishan is a passionate product enthusiast and self-taught developer who loves open source technologies, tech conferences, and hackathons. Currently as a Graduate Android Engineer at Booking.com (Amsterdam, Netherlands), he is helping people enjoy their vacations across the world. Ishan is also PMC member at Apache Fineract Project, Android Code maintainer at Mifos Initiative. he successfully graduated as a Google Summer of Code Intern in 2014 under Mifos and in 2015 under XMPP Standards Foundation and mentored students at Google Summer of Code (2016).

Jason is a software engineer at Facebook working on News Feed’s infrastructure on Android. Since he joined Facebook 4 years ago, he’s worked on making the Facebook for Android app faster and more sustainable. He’s well versed in scroll performance and the iterative approach to rewriting software in place. He’s also alright with Flexbox and annotation processors.

Hi, my name’s Joe. I’m an Android Engineer based in Brighton, UK working on the Android team at Buffer. I’m passionate about coding and love creating robust, polished and exciting projects for mobile, the web, TV, wearables and I’ll probably be toying with whatever the new thing is at the time you’re reading this – I love to be constantly learning. I’m also a keen writer as I love to share my learnings and experiences with others.

Madis is currently working on JRebel for Android at ZeroTurnaround. He started hacking on Android apps on a T-Mobile G1 more than 8 years ago and quickly grew a particular interest in build systems and developer tooling. His previous experience includes working on the Android Platform team at Spotify and working on multiple apps at Mobi Lab. During his free time he likes to dabble around with guitars and home recording.

Mark is a professional Android engineer since Cupcake. He has worked on apps with millions of users and has spoken around the world about our favorite operating system.!

Part of Ionic core team, Mike helps developers while they are building their apps and also frequently speaks and writes about Ionic. In his spare time, he’s a hybrid app maker, occasional musician, and craft beer lover.

Nathan Eagle is the CEO and co-founder of Jana, the largest provider of free Internet in emerging markets. Born out of his time as a Fulbright professor in Kenya, Nathan began Jana from the insight that smartphones can be used not only for global communication, but also data sponsorship. He founded Jana with a simple, yet powerful mission—to make the Internet free for the next billion. Nathan saw first-hand how affordable mobile data empowers users in these markets through his work teaching app development at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. It was there that Nathan and his students created an SMS system that became the technical infrastructure of Jana. Nathan realized that the sponsored-data model can both power smartphones and empower users. Nathan graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and master’s degrees in management science and engineering and electrical engineering. His Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory on Reality Mining was declared one of the “10 technologies most likely to change the way we live” by the MIT Technology Review. He was also named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2014.

Nick DiPatri is an Android consultant at Comcast. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers and has been doing software development since his first Commodore 64. Earlier in his career, Nick developed software/firmware/hardware solutions including RF modelling, large-scale traffic sensor arrays, and N-Tier highly available Java enterprise systems. Since this whole mobile thing caught on, however, he’s been in heaven … mostly because it lets him play with smart phones, solder and 5-minute epoxy.

Nitya is a software architect and consultant with nearly 20 years of experience building mobile, web and distributed computing solutions. She has a PhD in Computer Engineering and developed patented mobile, television and wearable technology during her 12-year tenure at Motorola Research. Nitya currently works with early stage startups and universities to build mobile web product for consumers in the entertainment, social good and ubiquitous computing domains. She also organizes Google Developer Groups (in New York and Hudson Valley) and related Android Camp and DevFest developer conferences in NYC.

Paul comes from a family of coders. His father started things off at Data General working on projects like the Soul of a New Machine. Then he taught his three sons to code in the 90’s. After long stints at Allaire, Macromedia, Adobe, Bullhorn, and Brightcove, Paul is now at TripAdvisor, where he’s loving the short commute, free lunches, and fun challenges that come with working with roughly 50 Android engineers all contributing to a single app and releasing every two weeks. It’s safe to say that his two sons are likely to also become coders when they grow up.

Phil Corriveau is an Android Developer at Intrepid, an end-to-end digital product strategy, design, and development company based in Cambridge, MA. After graduating from Cornell, Phil has spent the past three years in the mobile space, with a main focus on the Android platform. During his time at Intrepid, Phil has successfully led project teams and has maintained several apps in as many as 17 different languages. As a leader in Intrepid’s in-house training program, Phil has prepared teaching material, given lectures, and mentored new developers on the Android platform and best practices.

Curious about Android Auto? Announced at Google I/O 2014, Android Auto is Google’s attempt to bring Android to the car, with controls and a user interface optimized for driving. The first cars with Auto support were released in the summer of 2015 and Google has now opened up Android Auto to everyone with the recent release of the Android Auto app, giving developers a unique opportunity to reach a whole new set of users. The goal of this session is to get you started developing great apps for this emerging platform. We’ll talk about how to: Extend your existing audio or messaging app to be compatible with an Android Auto head unit; Use Android Auto to play music, compose and read messages and respond to user voice actions; Develop and test your apps with the Desktop Head Unit; Make sense of the Android Auto design guidelines and usability requirements that are in place for Auto apps;Distribute your Auto app through Google Play. Join us as we walk through real-life examples and see just how easy it is to get started with Android Auto!

Sam is a Lead Android Engineer for Capital One Wallet. He has been working with Android since 2011 and has over 13 years of professional experience with full-stack development with Java and JavaScript. Check out http://handstandsam.com where he shares tips and tricks about Android and software development.

CTO @ ZoeWave building physiologically intelligent clothing (technology patents) and a researcher @ TDI working on medical biomarkers (publications / presentations). His frequent code-a-thon wins have gone on to become published Apps (iOS & Android). As a thought leader in mobile and wearable development, he is an enthusiastic author, teacher and speaker helping promote the ecosystem (fashion & technology). You can also catch him DJing or competing in three phases of H2O (Snow / Surf / Kite – boarding). https://goo.gl/dmkJ0a

Siena is a software engineer at Indiegogo in San Francisco, where she works mostly with Rails and Angular. A Los Angeles native, Pokémon master, and international public speaker, Siena enjoys playing video games, knitting, jamming on the guitar, and studying Japanese. You can find her at emojiparty.net, where she blogs about tech with Stella Cotton.

Todd is a developer advocate at Google, working on Fabric and fastlane. He loves supporting customers and talking about technology.

Tyler is a Software Engineer, Head of Developer Relations at Button. He is a web developer and hardware tinkerer jumping into the world of mobile development. When he’s not coding or prototyping, you can find him running, swimming, or cycling.

Victoria is a software developer at Collective Idea, building mobile and web applications. She is passionate about using technology to help better the lives of individuals. Studying both Computer Science and Dance in college, she now enjoys digging into dance technology, and keeping up with dance classes in her spare time.