Presentation: The Whole Engineer Panel

Justin Becker is an Engineering Manager for the Playback API team at Netflix. He has worked at Netflix for 7 years, the first 5 years as an Engineer. His focus is building scalable, high availability, services running in a cloud environment.

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He combines his experiences working at Big 4 management consulting companies as well as small technology startups to implement practical solutions that can be understood and scaled across organizations.

He is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community centers around the world on topics including Agile software development, inclusion, and leadership. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Kevin Stewart is Vice President of Engineering at Heptio, an emerging leader in the cloud native computing space started by two of the founders of Google Compute Engine and the Kubernetes open source project. He held a similar role at NodeSource where he helped create NodeSource N|Solid, an enterprise grade Node.js runtime. Kevin is a 10-year veteran at Adobe and one of the original engineering leaders for Creative Cloud where his team built the very first service offering, Creative Cloud Assets. Prior to Adobe, Kevin held leadership roles at multiple software companies and digital agencies, where he helped shape the engineering culture by improving development and delivery practices and encouraged cross-functional teams. While currently residing in Seattle, Kevin is a lifelong New Yorker with dreams of relocating to a sunny island in the Caribbean. When he’s not helping teams build great products, Kevin can be found spending time with his family or at the gym trying to stay (get) in shape.

David Copeland is a programmer and author. He's the author of “Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap”, "The Senior Software Engineer" and "Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby". He has over 18 years of professional development experience from managing high-performance, high-traffic systems at LivingSocial or building the engineering team at Opower to working consulting gigs large and small. Currently, he's Director of Engineering at fashion start-up Stitch Fix.