Cloud Foundry Open Tour

Patrick Chanezon joined VMware in 2011, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously, he worked at Google where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team, Sun Microsystems where he worked as a software architect on the Sun Portal Server, AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and Accenture where he was a Lotus Notes guru. He has also been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API, and he co-created the ROME open source project and the OSSGTP group in France. Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
Twitter: @chanezon

Ingy döt Net is a hacker who started programming in Assembler on punchcards, switched over to Perl and has since become enlightened to the goodness of all the OSDC languages and the people who hack, support, and evangelize them. Ingy has been a vocal leader in Open Source software for the last twelve years. He is a regular speaker at OSCON/OSDC/YAPC and module author for Perl (CPAN), Python (PyPI), Perl 6, and Bash. He is one of the creators of YAML, the father of Acmeism, and is drinking a quad Americano as you read this. As a member of ActiveState's technical leadership team, Ingy works with developers to help them get their applications to the cloud. He is a software artist and inventor who continually looks for new ideas to make software development simpler, while searching for more ways to socialize those ideas.
Twitter: @ingydotnet

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the lead author on Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly's "Getting Started with Spring Roo," and Manning's "Cloud Foundry in Action." and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code for (Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Activiti, and much more), he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh has been a speaker at numerous conferences, worldwide, including JFokus, JAX, SpringOne2GX, OSCON, JavaZone, Geecon, Java2Days, Vaadin and Mongo Dev Days, and numerous others. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs at springsource.org, blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.
Twitter: @starbuxman

Dave has founded 4 companies in the Virtualization and Cloud spaces, is the co-inventor of 7 patented technologies in virtualization, cloud, and management (with more pending), and is the author of "Advanced Server Virtualization". He is an industry-recognized expert in cloud computing and designed and implemented the first Cloud Iaas/Paas (Pre-Amazon).
Twitter: @mccrory

Before joining 10gen, Sandeep wrote code for Ravel where he developed a large scale graph processing framework on top of Hadoop. His background is in software engineering and he has developed systems for social network analysis, natural language sentiment and text similarity. He lives in Austin, TX where he helps run the Austin NoSQL meetup group and sometimes rides his bike.
Twitter: @crcsmnky

Raja Rao DV has spent most of his decade long career as an engineer and developer advocate for VMware Zimbra. As part of Zimbra, his main role was to promote, engineer and maintain Zimbra's extension framework called Zimlets. Along the way he ended up writing 100+ Zimlets and trained several large Zimbra customers like Comcast, Telus(Canada), BigLobe(Japan) etc on how to extend Zimbra. He currently works as developer advocate for Cloud Foundry and is responsible for working with developers and partners to enhance the platform.
Twitter: @rajaraodv

Monica Wilkinson has been writing software for over a decade and for a variety of large scale employers such as IBM, MySpace, Facebook and VMware. Monica is an Open Web Standards and Data Portability Advocate and has contributed to many open specifications around Activity Streams and real-time notifications. Today she works as a Developer Advocate at Cloud Foundry where she is directly responsible for the website, documentation, open source gallery and working with developers and partners to enhance the platform.
Twitter: @ciberch