Coffee and Open Source

Brian Alvey is CTO at WordPress VIP, the enterprise platform trusted by brands such as CNN, Salesforce, Bloomberg, and NBCUniversal (and built on WordPress Open Source, which powers nearly 45% of the internet). Brian is also one of the internet’s original builders and leaders in online publishing - from founding Engadget to creating software used by global brands like AOL, Gucci, BusinessWeek, Netscape, Huffington Post, and more.
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Nir is an experienced information security leader, executive, expert and a public speaker at leading conferences globally, including Black Hat, Defcon, BSides, and RSA.
Before founding Arnica, Nir lead the product and data security across Finastra, established security at Kabbage (acquired by Amex) as CISO, and headed application security across NCR.
Innovation is a key driver for Nir, as reflected by his contribution to open source projects and invention of 7 patents in software security.You can find Nir on the following sites:
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Helen Hou-Sandí is a Staff Software Engineering Manager for Accessibility at GitHub and a WordPress Lead Developer. As a technologist, she is a leader in open source software and management, and caree deeply about building great user experiences. She am also a classically-trained pianist who’s performed extensively worldwide.You can find Helen on the following sites:
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Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science & Technology conferences and giving public talks. Prior to retiring in 2026, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft where he was an AI Architect in Office, the Chief Architect for Windows Server Azure Stack. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.
Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products.
Snover held 8 patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.
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Ardalis (Steve Smith) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. Ardalis has published DOZENS of courses on Pluralsight and Dometrain, covering DDD, SOLID, design patterns, and software architecture. He's a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, a frequent speaker at developer conferences, an author, and a trainer.
Ardalis works with companies through NimblePros, the boutique consulting company he runs with his wife, Michelle. They help teams who want to avoid the trap of technical debt to deliver better software, faster. Ardalis and his team have been described by clients as a 'force multiplier', amplifying the value of existing development teams.You can find Steve on the following sites:
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