speakers.md - summit/2021 - Git at Google

 # Gerrit Virtual User Summit 2021 - Speakers

 ### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#lmilanesio}

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/)

 Luca is the co-founder of GerritForge and has over 25 years of software
 development and application lifecycle management experience.
 He has been a Gerrit Contributor since 2012 and a member of the Engineering
 Steering Committee since 2019.

 Luca maintains [GerritHub.io](https://gerrithub.io), the Open Service
 for Gerrit Code Review on top of GitHub repositories.

 ### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}

 [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli/)

 Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge, where he contributes to the
 OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
 He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of DevOps
 analytics tools for Gerrit.
 He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and
 cloud-based, with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS
 and related ecosystems.

 ### Paul Jolly - CUE {#myitcv}

 [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_myitcv)

 Paul is a core contributor to the [CUE](https://cuelang.org/) project. He
 co-created [play-with-go.dev](https://play-with-go.dev), co-founded the [Go
 Tools Working Group](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/golang-tools), is a
 regular contributor to the [Go](https://golang.org) project, and helps maintain
 various Go and CUE-based open source projects.

 ### Shane McIntosh - University of Waterloo {#smcintosh}

 Shane is an associate professor at the [University of Waterloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/),
 where he directs the Software Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs
 ([the Software REBELs](https://rebels.cs.uwaterloo.ca/)).
 Previously, he was an assistant professor with McGill University, where he held
 the Canada Research Chair in Software Release Engineering. He received the Ph.D.
 from Queen's University, for which he was awarded the Governor General's
 Academic Gold Medal. In his research, he uses empirical methods to study
 software build systems, release engineering, and software quality.

 ### Patrick Hiesel - Google {#patrick-hiesel}

 Patrick joined Google and the Gerrit project in 2016, working primarily on the
 backend. Since then, he has worked on making Gerrit faster, and more stable as
 well as different features, including (most recently) Submit Requirements.

 He is a Gerrit maintainer and a member of the Engineering Steering Committee.

 ### Edwin Kempin - Google {#edwin-kempin}

 Edwin is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2010,
 became a maintainer in 2012 and assumed the role as community manager in 2019.

 Since 2015 he's working at Google in the Gerrit backend team that develops
 Gerrit core and maintains the Gerrit infrastructure at Google. Previously Edwin
 worked 10+ years at SAP where he was responsible for Gerrit development and
 hosting as well.

 ### Ian Gauthier - Flywheel.io {#igauthier}

 Ian is a recent Master's graduate from [McGill University](https://www.mcgill.ca/),
 where he studied Software Engineering with a particular focus on Software
 Modelling and Software Repository Mining. Ian currently works at Flywheel.io.

 ### Delphine Carlson - Google {#delphinec}

 Delphine is Gerrit UX Designer since mid-2019.
 She is the designer behind Gerrit's new features: the attention set UI, the code
 owners plugin, the Checks UI, the Submit requirement, and multiple Comments
 experience improvements.

 She loves collaborating with the Gerrit team and users to improve Gerrit's user
 experience and help developers get their work done with ease.

 ### Ben Rohlfs - Google {#brohlfs}

 Ben was the Gerrit frontend tech lead from 2019-2021 and has been a maintainer
 since 2019. He loves working on web apps for developers and tries to make Gerrit
 users happy and productive.

 His largest contributions to Gerrit so far were the Attention Set, the new
 Checks API/UI (see lightning talks) and heading large infrastructure migrations
 such as JavaScript->TypeScript and Polymer1->2->3->Lit.

 ### Marcin Czech - GerritForge {#mczech}

 Marcin is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge where he contributes to the
 OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.

 Over the last two years, he has been involved in the design and development of
 numerous parts of the Gerrit ecosystem, such as Gerrit core, multi-site,
 events-broker(Kafka and AWS Kinesis), pull-replication and external-ids
 online migration.

 ### Antonio Barone - GerritForge {#syntonyze}

 [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anbarone/)

 Antonio joined GerritForge in 2018. Since then, he has contributed to the design
 and development of various tools and plugins for Gerrit, such as DevOps
 analytics, multi-site and chronicle-map. Recently, he zeroed in on the
 integration of Gerrit with the cloud.

 ### Martin Fick - Qualcomm {#mfick}

 Martin made his first Gerrit contribution back in June 2010 and just
 over a year later became one of the first two maintainers added to the
 project (Saša Živkov being the other). Since then he's continued to
 improve Gerrit workflows, plugin extendability, reliability, and
 performance. He especially focuses on multi-primary functionality and
 compatibility.

 ### Kaushik Lingarkar - Qualcomm {#kaushikl}

 Kaushik joined Qualcomm over 12 years ago and has had a variety of
 roles, often related to Gerrit or workflows using Gerrit. He made his
 first Gerrit contribution in 2013 and has made many more in 2020 and
 2021 as a full-time member of the Qualcomm Gerrit team. His major focus
 over the past year has been improving the performance of upgrading a
 very large 2.7 fork Gerrit site to vanilla 3.4+.

 ### Adithya Chakilam - Qualcomm {#achakila}

 Adithya joined the Qualcomm Gerrit team in June 2020 and quickly started
 contributing changes. So far he's explored the replication plugin, 2.16
 and earlier schema migrations, plugin provided change query attributes,
 JGit, and offline reindexing.

 ### Milutin Kristofic - Google {#milutin}

 Milutin joined the Gerrit frontend team in June 2019 and has been a maintainer
 since December 2020. Milutin was mostly working on better A11y and optimizing
 performance.

 ### Nasser Grainawi - Qualcomm {#nasserg}

 Nasser has been in the Gerrit world since 2008 and has been a maintainer since
 November 2020. He's the lead of the Qualcomm Gerrit team and has been a
 community manager since May 2021.
	# Gerrit Virtual User Summit 2021 - Speakers

	### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#lmilanesio}

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/)

	Luca is the co-founder of GerritForge and has over 25 years of software
	development and application lifecycle management experience.
	He has been a Gerrit Contributor since 2012 and a member of the Engineering
	Steering Committee since 2019.

	Luca maintains [GerritHub.io](https://gerrithub.io), the Open Service
	for Gerrit Code Review on top of GitHub repositories.

	### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}

	[LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli/)

	Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge, where he contributes to the
	OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
	He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of DevOps
	analytics tools for Gerrit.
	He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and
	cloud-based, with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS
	and related ecosystems.

	### Paul Jolly - CUE {#myitcv}

	[Twitter](https://twitter.com/_myitcv)

	Paul is a core contributor to the [CUE](https://cuelang.org/) project. He
	co-created [play-with-go.dev](https://play-with-go.dev), co-founded the [Go
	Tools Working Group](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/golang-tools), is a
	regular contributor to the [Go](https://golang.org) project, and helps maintain
	various Go and CUE-based open source projects.

	### Shane McIntosh - University of Waterloo {#smcintosh}

	Shane is an associate professor at the [University of Waterloo](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/),
	where he directs the Software Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs
	([the Software REBELs](https://rebels.cs.uwaterloo.ca/)).
	Previously, he was an assistant professor with McGill University, where he held
	the Canada Research Chair in Software Release Engineering. He received the Ph.D.
	from Queen's University, for which he was awarded the Governor General's
	Academic Gold Medal. In his research, he uses empirical methods to study
	software build systems, release engineering, and software quality.

	### Patrick Hiesel - Google {#patrick-hiesel}

	Patrick joined Google and the Gerrit project in 2016, working primarily on the
	backend. Since then, he has worked on making Gerrit faster, and more stable as
	well as different features, including (most recently) Submit Requirements.

	He is a Gerrit maintainer and a member of the Engineering Steering Committee.

	### Edwin Kempin - Google {#edwin-kempin}

	Edwin is a long-time Gerrit contributor. He joined the Gerrit project in 2010,
	became a maintainer in 2012 and assumed the role as community manager in 2019.

	Since 2015 he's working at Google in the Gerrit backend team that develops
	Gerrit core and maintains the Gerrit infrastructure at Google. Previously Edwin
	worked 10+ years at SAP where he was responsible for Gerrit development and
	hosting as well.

	### Ian Gauthier - Flywheel.io {#igauthier}

	Ian is a recent Master's graduate from [McGill University](https://www.mcgill.ca/),
	where he studied Software Engineering with a particular focus on Software
	Modelling and Software Repository Mining. Ian currently works at Flywheel.io.

	### Delphine Carlson - Google {#delphinec}

	Delphine is Gerrit UX Designer since mid-2019.
	She is the designer behind Gerrit's new features: the attention set UI, the code
	owners plugin, the Checks UI, the Submit requirement, and multiple Comments
	experience improvements.

	She loves collaborating with the Gerrit team and users to improve Gerrit's user
	experience and help developers get their work done with ease.

	### Ben Rohlfs - Google {#brohlfs}

	Ben was the Gerrit frontend tech lead from 2019-2021 and has been a maintainer
	since 2019. He loves working on web apps for developers and tries to make Gerrit
	users happy and productive.

	His largest contributions to Gerrit so far were the Attention Set, the new
	Checks API/UI (see lightning talks) and heading large infrastructure migrations
	such as JavaScript->TypeScript and Polymer1->2->3->Lit.

	### Marcin Czech - GerritForge {#mczech}

	Marcin is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge where he contributes to the
	OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.

	Over the last two years, he has been involved in the design and development of
	numerous parts of the Gerrit ecosystem, such as Gerrit core, multi-site,
	events-broker(Kafka and AWS Kinesis), pull-replication and external-ids
	online migration.

	### Antonio Barone - GerritForge {#syntonyze}

	[LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anbarone/)

	Antonio joined GerritForge in 2018. Since then, he has contributed to the design
	and development of various tools and plugins for Gerrit, such as DevOps
	analytics, multi-site and chronicle-map. Recently, he zeroed in on the
	integration of Gerrit with the cloud.

	### Martin Fick - Qualcomm {#mfick}

	Martin made his first Gerrit contribution back in June 2010 and just
	over a year later became one of the first two maintainers added to the
	project (Saša Živkov being the other). Since then he's continued to
	improve Gerrit workflows, plugin extendability, reliability, and
	performance. He especially focuses on multi-primary functionality and
	compatibility.

	### Kaushik Lingarkar - Qualcomm {#kaushikl}

	Kaushik joined Qualcomm over 12 years ago and has had a variety of
	roles, often related to Gerrit or workflows using Gerrit. He made his
	first Gerrit contribution in 2013 and has made many more in 2020 and
	2021 as a full-time member of the Qualcomm Gerrit team. His major focus
	over the past year has been improving the performance of upgrading a
	very large 2.7 fork Gerrit site to vanilla 3.4+.

	### Adithya Chakilam - Qualcomm {#achakila}

	Adithya joined the Qualcomm Gerrit team in June 2020 and quickly started
	contributing changes. So far he's explored the replication plugin, 2.16
	and earlier schema migrations, plugin provided change query attributes,
	JGit, and offline reindexing.

	### Milutin Kristofic - Google {#milutin}

	Milutin joined the Gerrit frontend team in June 2019 and has been a maintainer
	since December 2020. Milutin was mostly working on better A11y and optimizing
	performance.

	### Nasser Grainawi - Qualcomm {#nasserg}

	Nasser has been in the Gerrit world since 2008 and has been a maintainer since
	November 2020. He's the lead of the Qualcomm Gerrit team and has been a
	community manager since May 2021.