
Fabien Vauchelles
CTO and Co-Founder Zelros

CTO and Co-Founder Zelros

Miro is a Co-founder and VP Engineering at DNAstack, where he builds a leading genomics cloud platform. He is a Java enthusiast with expertise in distributed systems and middleware, passionate about genetics and making meaningful software. Miro is the creator of the largest search and discovery engine of human genetic data, and the author of a book on parallelization of genomic queries. In his spare time, he blogs and contributes to several open-source projects.

Nikolay Stoitsev is a software engineer at Uber where he builds scalable and fault-tolerant backend distributed systems. He is also a teaching assistant at Sofia University in Sofia, Bulgaria. The projects he is working on allow 3 million people around to world to earn money on their own schedule.

Werner Keil has worked for more than 25 years as project manager, software architect, analyst and consultant on leading-edge technologies for Banking, Insurance, Telco/Mobile, Media and Public sector.
Among his earlier clients are Sony where Werner designed and implemented micro-format based tags for Sony Music.
He develops enterprise systems using Java, Java EE, Oracle or IBM, does Web design and development using Adobe, Ajax/JavaScript or dynamic languages like Ruby, PHP, etc.
Besides work for major companies he runs his own creative, talent and consulting agency Creative Arts & Technologies. In his spare time, he runs and supports open-source projects, writes song lyrics, novels, screenplays and technical articles. He is committing member of Eclipse Foundation, Apache Foundation and the Java Community Process, including his role as JSR-363 Spec Lead and Executive Committee Member.
The amount of data collected by applications nowadays is growing at a scary pace. Many of them need to handle billions of users generating and consuming data at an incredible speed. Maybe you are wondering how to create an application like this? What is required? What works best for your project?

Martin is a solution architect and IT consultant conducting professional trainings for novice and experienced developers. He is a Java enthusiast and one of the leads of the Bulgarian Java User group (BG JUG). Martin is also a regular speaker at Java conferences and helps with the organization of the jPrime conference in Bulgaria (http://jprime.io/).
Elasticsearch is nowadays one of the most widely deployed full text search engines. During this code-only session we will review several options for integrating our Java applications with Elasticsearch.

About Serhii:

Oracle Certified Java Expert. Contributes as a speaker on meet-ups, communities and conferences, mentors colleagues, has deep experience in telecom area and likes ham radio beyond programming. Roman is the most concentrated on topics about Spring, JVM performance, security, distributed systems, microservices and docker.
Organizer of Lohika’s Java community – weekly meetings with live coding session, new framework investigation, sharing experience.
Program committee member of morning@lohika community – monthly meet-up events for developers.

Thodoris works as a Scrum Master for ABN Amro bank and contributes to the prosperity of the (software) community in several ways. He is the Founder & Leader of Utrecht Java User Group, which counts more than 2000 members and has hosted exceptional speakers (where among others, James Gosling and Uncle Bob). Besides, he serves the Expert Group of JSR-385 and helps new communities to make their first steps. Previously: 5 years of Software Engineering, 2 years as a Technical Author, Open-source contributor. His views are expressed via his Twitter handle @thodorisbais

Svetlin Nakov (http://nakov.com) Svetlin Nakov has 20+ years of technical background as software engineer, project manager, consultant, trainer, and digital entrepreneur with rich technical experience (blockchain, Web development, information systems, databases, cryptography, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python). Svetlin Nakov is a regular speaker at hundreds of conferences, seminars, courses and other trainings and holds a PhD degree in computer science. He is author of 15 books about computer programming and software technologies, lives in Sofia, Bulgaria and works as an passionate trainer and inspirer at SoftUni.

Svetlin Nakov (http://nakov.com) Svetlin Nakov has 20+ years of technical background as software engineer, project manager, consultant, trainer, and digital entrepreneur with rich technical experience (blockchain, Web development, information systems, databases, cryptography, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python). Svetlin Nakov is a regular speaker at hundreds of conferences, seminars, courses and other trainings and holds a PhD degree in computer science. He is author of 15 books about computer programming and software technologies, lives in Sofia, Bulgaria and works as an passionate trainer and inspirer at SoftUni.