Speakers
Stack Overflow is a large variety of talented individuals who are constantly working to improve themselves and the world around them. Whether it be engineering, design, marketing, or community, our team has a large variety of skills and experience to speak about.
If you would like a Stack Overflow employee to speak at your next event, email us at [email protected], we’d be happy to discuss.
Atlanta, GA
Nick Larsen
Developer
Nick is developer on the data team at Stack Overflow with previous experience on the Careers team. Nick's approach is always user focused and he likes to mix a little humor into every talk.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
New York City
Matt Sherman
Engineering Manager
Matt speaks on engineering and engineering management. He specializes in recruiting, getting developers talking to salespeople, and the Go programming language. He is also the founder of Alikewise, a dating site based on books.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow • YouTube
New York City
Bethany Marzewski
Customer Happiness
Bethany focuses on growing Stack Overflow Careers by engaging directly with customers and sharing research and insights on developer hiring trends globally. She is also the program director for Beyond Coding, a new professional skills course for emerging developer talent in NYC.
Jacksonville, FL
David Haney
Engineering Manager
David speaks on programming, management, and cognitive biases as they apply to hiring and decision making in the workplace. He specializes in .NET on topics such as performance and optimization, distributed caching, cloud computing, and search algorithms.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
New York City
Jeff Szczepanski
Chief Operating Officer
Jeff speaks about startups, the management and scaling of both sales teams and software development teams and how the two are much similar than you might think. His talk ‘The Developers Guide to Running a Sales Team’ can be seen here.
Twitter • Stack Overflow
New York City
Jon Chan
Developer, Head of Evangelism
Jon is a developer and heads evangelism efforts at Stack Overflow. He's also the founder of Bento, a tech education site. He frequently speaks on product development, tech education, and diversity.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
Joshua Hynes
Senior Product Designer
Josh is a Senior Product Designer on the Design team. He enjoys talking about style guides, experience design, and design processes.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
Laura Dobrzynski-Gessner
Product Manager
Laura builds products for both the Stack Overflow community and recruiters on Stack Overflow Careers. She enjoys talking about product development, the importance of culture at tech startups, and strategies for communication within companies and with users.
Website • Twitter
New York City
Arie Litovsky
Web Developer
Arie developed the Stack Overflow mobile app while travelling around the world. He enjoys speaking on career development, mobile design (especially iOS), other cultures and languages, and turning espresso into code.
Website • Twitter
London
Oded Coster
Developer
Oded has been a developer since 1997 and started using Stack Overflow during its beta period. He is now working at Stack Overflow, improving the site (when not bringing it down). He talks about both the community and engineering aspects of the site.
Website • Twitter • Stack Overflow
UK
Marc Gravell
Developer
Marc is a developer often focusing on tools and libraries for high performance / scalability development; his talks often focus on similar subjects - in particular things like IL generation, redis (SE.Redis), database access (dapper), web scalability, and related topics
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
London
Marco Cecconi
Developer
Sklivvz is a developer in the core team of Stack Overflow. He blogs on Sklivvz.com, covering computers from transistors to tech leadership. He frequently speaks on architecture, engineering and Stack Overflow.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
New York City area
Dan O’Boyle
Internal Support Engineer
Dan builds tools to make internal process and procedure efficient and consistent. He worked previously in education as both an educator and technical staff. He has spoken on a variety of topics, including Google Glass, Leap Motion, Technology in Education, Django Web apps - and other past tinkerings.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
Alexa Scordato
Director of Product Marketing
Alexa is passionate about helping companies understand how to scale marketing teams and the role technology and community can play in driving business success. She speaks regularly about branding and growth strategies at startups, diversity in tech, and career growth for millennials.
Website • Twitter
London
Angela Nyman
Director of Marketing, EMEA
Angela has an extensive expertise in branding, marketing management and +12 years of experience in cross cultural management. At Stack Overflow she is educating companies about technical recruitment and how to best reach, attract and engage with developers.
New York City
Nada Elkady
Director of Marketing, North America
Possibility, innovation, and relentless movement forward are at the core of what drive Nada. She enjoys speaking about building scalable and efficient marketing systems, empowering women, and living life to the fullest through running.
Winston-Salem, NC
Nick Craver
Developer and Site Reliability Engineer
Nick is a developer and SRE on the Core and Site Reliability Engineering teams at Stack Overflow. Nick's passion is performance and efficiency through the entire stack. He does in-depth talks on infrastructure and code approaches used at Stack Overflow, including the story and reasoning behind them.
Website • Twitter • GitHub • Stack Overflow
Berlin, Germany
Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe
Web Developer
Ben has worked at Stack Overflow for over five years, and has given talks on various topics such as localStorage messaging, IL code generation, and regex performance. With interests such as algorithmic unicorn generation and April 1st, he is a proponent of fun-ctional programming (and bad puns).
Website • Twitter • Stack Overflow
London
Alex Warren
Web Developer
Alex is a developer on the Stack Overflow Careers team. His talk "How to be Awesome" is a guide for junior developers to further their careers by working on side projects, and how to make a great first impression when applying for a job.