Google Developer Experts

Google Developer Experts

All Google Developer Experts that have added their award to their speaker profile.

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Santosh Kumar Perumal

Santosh Kumar Perumal

I carry over a decade of experience in the tech industry, I am a seasoned Cloud and DevOps Consultant based in London, UK. I hold a Master's degree in Software Engineering and specialize in Google Cloud, open-source tools adoption, and application modernization. My primary goal is to assist businesses in accelerating their cloud migration journeys, particularly on Google Cloud.

- Organizer and Host for CNCF event Sustainability week London
- Google Cloud WTM Ambassador.
- Google Cloud Innovator.
- STEM Ambassador.
- Member of the FinOps board.
- Tigera Calico Big Cat.
- Astronomer Champion for Apache Airflow focusing on OpenSource Apache Airflow.
- Opensource Contributor.
- Public Speaker.
- Google Developer Expert - Google Cloud
- Google Champion Innovator - Google Cloud
- OpenUK Ambassador focusing on Opensource area in UK.
- CD Foundation Ambassador.
- Peoplecert Ambassador DevOps Institute.

I carry over a decade of experience in the tech industry, I am a seasoned Cloud and DevOps Consultant based in London, UK. I hold a Master's degree in Software Engineering and specialize in Google Cloud, open-source tools adoption, and application mo... Show more

Tom Colvin

Tom Colvin

Tom Colvin is CTO of Apptaura, the app development specialists; and founder of Conseal Security, the mobile app security experts. He has been a developer for over 20 years and worked with Android since Cupcake. He is a Google Developer Expert in Android.

Tom Colvin is CTO of Apptaura, the app development specialists; and founder of Conseal Security, the mobile app security experts. He has been a developer for over 20 years and worked with Android since Cupcake. He is a Google Developer Expert in Andr... Show more

Lucien Immink

Lucien Immink

A Java developer that saw the light and embraced Internet Explorer 6 as his digital overlord.
Over two decades in the field has taught Lucien how we often reinvent the wheel to accommodate new shiny frameworks.
Now, as a Principal Consultant, his mission is to discover elegant solutions for his clients. While we’ve moved beyond Flash and jQuery, the web platform technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript remain essential. Rather than battling the platform, let’s embrace it.
Lucien is a rewarded Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies and capabilities since 2022.

A Java developer that saw the light and embraced Internet Explorer 6 as his digital overlord. Over two decades in the field has taught Lucien how we often reinvent the wheel to accommodate new shiny frameworks. Now, as a Principal Consultant, his m... Show more

Taha Bouhsine

Taha Bouhsine

Creator of Deep Learning 2.0, ChillEO @mlnomads, ML Google Developer Expert and Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher with +2 years of experience in Deep Learning. Proven success in managing and implementing state-of-the-art solutions, specializing in Multimodal Deep Learning, Representation Learning, and training and deploying Multimodal Foundational Models.

Creator of Deep Learning 2.0, ChillEO @mlnomads, ML Google Developer Expert and Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher with +2 years of experience in Deep Learning. Proven success in managing and implementing state-of-the-art solutions, specializin... Show more

Eeva-Jonna Panula

Eeva-Jonna Panula

Eeva-Jonna, or Eevis, is an accessibility specialist and senior Android developer. She is also Android GDE and Women Techmakers Ambassador. Her passion is to share knowledge, and she speaks and writes a blog. When she is not doing that, she explores the beautiful Finnish nature either by foot or kayak.

Eeva-Jonna, or Eevis, is an accessibility specialist and senior Android developer. She is also Android GDE and Women Techmakers Ambassador. Her passion is to share knowledge, and she speaks and writes a blog. When she is not doing that, she explores ... Show more

Thomas Künneth

Thomas Künneth

Thomas fell in love with Android in 2009. He has been constantly contributing to the community since then. Thomas loves writing books (four titles, 15 editions) and articles. He enjoys speaking at conferences and meetups. Thomas' first encounter with programming was in the era of home computers during the early 1980s. Later came C, Perl and a few more. During the 90s he wrote a bunch of programs for the Atari ST series. The first decade of Thomas' professional career centered around Java Enterprise. Today it’s all things Android and Kotlin.

Thomas fell in love with Android in 2009. He has been constantly contributing to the community since then. Thomas loves writing books (four titles, 15 editions) and articles. He enjoys speaking at conferences and meetups. Thomas' first encounter with... Show more

Patty O'Callaghan

Patty O'Callaghan

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director at Charles River Laboratories.

Patty is a member of the Google Developer Advisory Board, an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and a Google Cloud Champion Innovator.

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director at Charles River Laboratories. Patty is a membe... Show more

Hans Kristian Flaatten

Hans Kristian Flaatten

CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on NAIS - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience to build, run and operate applications.

Previously Principal Consultant at TietoEVRY with focus on large enterprises in public government, telecom, banking and insurance sectors.

Co-organiser of KCD Oslo, Cloud Native and GDG meetups in Norway. Regular speaker at national and international conferences on all things cloud native.

CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on NAIS - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience ... Show more

Xavier Portilla Edo

Xavier Portilla Edo

Xavier was born in Valencia, but currently living in Madrid. He has +10 years of experience. He focuses on Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, Q&A, microservices, Generative AI & Conversational AI and mentoring startups thanks to the Google & Microsoft For Startups Program. He is an organizer of GDG Madrid, DevopsDays Madrid and the Alexa community in Spanish. In his spare time, he enjoys music, beer, and friends. Author of the book "The Alexa Revolution". He has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, Alexa Champion, Google Developer Expert & Google Cloud Champion Innovator in ML, AWS Community Builder, and Azure Content Hero.

Xavier was born in Valencia, but currently living in Madrid. He has +10 years of experience. He focuses on Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, Q&A, microservices, Generative AI & Conversational AI and mentoring startups thanks to the Google & Microsoft For St... Show more

Geshan Manandhar

Geshan Manandhar

Geshan is a seasoned software engineer, with over 16 years of software engineering experience. Currently, in Sydney, Australia serving Simply Wall St. as a senior software engineer. He is a language-agnostic software engineer who believes the value provided to the business is more important than the choice of language or framework. With a keen interest in REST architecture, microservices, agile software engineering, and serverless, he has spoken at tech conferences in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Australia. He is actively involved with the developer community and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Blogging since 2007, he has a well-maintained tech blog where he shares his views and ideas.

Geshan is a seasoned software engineer, with over 16 years of software engineering experience. Currently, in Sydney, Australia serving Simply Wall St. as a senior software engineer. He is a language-agnostic software engineer who believes the value p... Show more

Julien Salvi

Julien Salvi

Into the Android world for more than 10 years, I experienced California the startup way of life before coming back to France. I am currently Lead Android Engineer at Aircall where we are building the best phone system for modern businesses. Alongside Android, I have a great interest in backend development with Kotlin and AR/VR technology. In 2021, I became an Android GDE to continue my journey to always share and learn with the Android community.
In my spare time, I am a world traveler and a beer lover always looking for the best IPAs!

Into the Android world for more than 10 years, I experienced California the startup way of life before coming back to France. I am currently Lead Android Engineer at Aircall where we are building the best phone system for modern businesses. Alongside... Show more

Katie Barnett

Katie Barnett

Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is a Google Developer Expert for Android, one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. She frequently runs events, speaks on technical and non-technical topics and enjoys writing blog posts to share her experience with others. Katie is based in Melbourne, Australia but loves to travel the world and outside of tech she enjoys boardgaming and attempting to finish many craft projects.

Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has wo... Show more

Ramona Schwering

Ramona Schwering

Ramona is a developer advocate and software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and developers alike, becoming a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress ambassador.

Ramona is a developer advocate and software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and... Show more

Obumuneme Nwabude

Obumuneme Nwabude

Obum is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in the Dart & Flutter category. He is also a Full-Stack Blockchain and Web developer with professional frontend, backend, and web3 experiences. He has written several articles on Flutter in various publications and volunteers in tech communities.

Obum is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in the Dart & Flutter category. He is also a Full-Stack Blockchain and Web developer with professional frontend, backend, and web3 experiences. He has written several articles on Flutter in various publications... Show more

Aurélie Vache

Aurélie Vache

Aurélie Vache is a Developer Advocate at OVHcloud in Toulouse, France. She is Docker Captain, CNCF ambassador, Google Cloud Developer Expert, Women techmarkers Ambassador & GitPod Hero. She has been working as a Developer and Ops for over 18 years. Cloud enthusiast and advocates DevOps/Cloud/Golang best practices.

Conferences and meetups organizer since 2016. Technical writer (dev.to/aurelievache), a book author & reviewer, a sketchnoter and a speaker at international conferences.

Mentor and promote diversity and accessibility in technology.

She created a new visual way for people to learn and understand Cloud technologies: "Understanding Kubernetes/Istio/Docker in a visual way" in sketchnotes, books and videos.

Blog: https://dev.to/aurelievache/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AurelieVache

Aurélie Vache is a Developer Advocate at OVHcloud in Toulouse, France. She is Docker Captain, CNCF ambassador, Google Cloud Developer Expert, Women techmarkers Ambassador & GitPod Hero. She has been working as a Developer and Ops for over 18 years. C... Show more

Kartik Arora

Kartik Arora

Kartik Arora is a Senior Android Engineer at Bilue with a strong background in user-centric design and mobile development. A Google Developer Expert (GDE), Kartik has worked with leading brands across multiple industries, including entertainment and finance. He is passionate about fostering tech communities and frequently shares his insights at meetups and conferences.

Kartik Arora is a Senior Android Engineer at Bilue with a strong background in user-centric design and mobile development. A Google Developer Expert (GDE), Kartik has worked with leading brands across multiple industries, including entertainment and ... Show more

Bryce Howitson

Bryce Howitson

Bryce is obsessed with creating products that people want to use. He helps organizations of all sizes test, and ship their ideas.

Bryce has been speaking since the age of 3. Sometimes called a designer, a developer, a strategist, a writer, and even a carpenter, he has led teams and worked in the trenches. Bryce is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a certified Design Sprint Master, a list over-user, and a recovering "filler word" addict. He shares his knowledge by mentoring and teaching from his homeland, the not-always-frozen Minnesota.

Ask Bryce about saving the rainforest through design @ Project M or his most epic Boundary Waters Wilderness adventure.

Bryce is obsessed with creating products that people want to use. He helps organizations of all sizes test, and ship their ideas. Bryce has been speaking since the age of 3. Sometimes called a designer, a developer, a strategist, a writer, and ev... Show more

Jemima Abu

Jemima Abu

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies.
She is a strong advocate for diversity and intersectionality in technology and accessibility in web development.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is a strong advocate for diversity and intersectionality in technology and accessibilit... Show more

Mario Fahlandt

Mario Fahlandt

Mario is from a small village in Germany and working for Kubermatic. He studied creative media at an English university and moved his field of knowledge to Cloud Native Infrastructure. He is working as a Customer Delivery Architect with the focus on planning and building concepts and architecture for Infrastructure in the Cloud native world. He started the Google Developer Group for Cloud in Munich back in 2016 and became a Cloud Google Developer Expert in 2019. His passion is always to move the cloud native community one step forward.

Mario is from a small village in Germany and working for Kubermatic. He studied creative media at an English university and moved his field of knowledge to Cloud Native Infrastructure. He is working as a Customer Delivery Architect with the focus on ... Show more

Sagar Das

Sagar Das

Sagar is a Staff Android Engineer who has been building apps for 9 years now. He is also a Google developer expert in Android and a co-organizer for Google Developer Groups at Boston and enjoys educating for the mobile dev community.

Sagar is a Staff Android Engineer who has been building apps for 9 years now. He is also a Google developer expert in Android and a co-organizer for Google Developer Groups at Boston and enjoys educating for the mobile dev community. Show more

Alejandro Cuba Ruiz

Alejandro Cuba Ruiz

Graduated in Software Engineering from the Technological University of Havana, Cuba, Alejandro brings over two decades of front-end development experience. Currently, he is the Principal Front-end Engineer at World Kinect in Miami, and a GDE (Google Developer Expert) in Angular. Alejandro is also a member of the ng-Champions program at ng-conf, co-organizer of the Angular Community Meetup, and the host of the Angularidades podcast.

Graduated in Software Engineering from the Technological University of Havana, Cuba, Alejandro brings over two decades of front-end development experience. Currently, he is the Principal Front-end Engineer at World Kinect in Miami, and a GDE (Google ... Show more

Julia Undeutsch

Julia Undeutsch

I am Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos.
After graduating University in Musicology and Japanese Studies in summer 2020, I started learning front-end development and specialized in the topic of web accessibility early on. Since then, I take every opportunity to spread awareness on the topic by regularly creating content in form of writing blog articles and such.
I have been certified by IAAP as a Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) in 2022 and got accepted in the Google Developer Expert Program in 2023.

I am Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos. After graduating University in Musicology and Japanese Studies in summer 2020, I started learning front-end development and specialized in the topic of web accessibility early on. Since then, I take ev... Show more

Natalie Godec

Natalie Godec

Systems/infra engineer turned cloud architect, with a soft spot for data platforms and security. GDE (Google Dev Expert) in Cloud, a Women TechMakers Ambassador and an experienced tech speaker.

I speak English, Ukrainian and French (and a liiittle bit of Italian), and am based in London, UK.

My previous talks and interviews (some of them): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS3g1K3mnmajt5Eu3nNaAiMK3hXjVRRNL

Systems/infra engineer turned cloud architect, with a soft spot for data platforms and security. GDE (Google Dev Expert) in Cloud, a Women TechMakers Ambassador and an experienced tech speaker. I speak English, Ukrainian and French (and a liiittle... Show more

Suesi Tran

Suesi Tran

GDE in Dart & Flutter, WTM Melbourne Ambassador, Senior Flutter Developer

GDE in Dart & Flutter, WTM Melbourne Ambassador, Senior Flutter Developer Show more

Pavlo Stavytskyi

Pavlo Stavytskyi

Pavlo is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta. He is also a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin. Previously he worked at Lyft, Turo and Grab on mobile infrastructure. He develops Android apps, focusing on mobile performance, developer productivity, and infrastructure.

Pavlo is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta. He is also a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin. Previously he worked at Lyft, Turo and Grab on mobile infrastructure. He develops Android apps, focusing on mobile performance, developer product... Show more

Sylvia Dieckmann

Sylvia Dieckmann

Sylvia is a Google Developer Expert for Flutter/Dart. Her preferred professional role includes some IT management but also enough hands-on development work to keep her dev skills sharp. Her main interest lies in exploring new technologies in the space of mobile apps and web technologies. She is currently playing with Flutter, Firebase, and some ML for Android but might change focus as new technologies pop up. 
Sylvia divides her time between South Africa and Germany. She is a Women Techmaker (WTM) Ambassador and an active member of the GDG Cape Town chapter. She is a frequent speaker at GDG events and aims to support the developer community through mentoring and events.

Sylvia is a Google Developer Expert for Flutter/Dart. Her preferred professional role includes some IT management but also enough hands-on development work to keep her dev skills sharp. Her main interest lies in exploring new technologies in the spac... Show more

Loiane Groner

Loiane Groner

Loiane Groner is a Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE with over 18 years of experience and a Director at BNY. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free programming courses at https://loiane.training.

Loiane Groner is a Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE with over 18 years of experience and a Director at BNY. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free pro... Show more

Ankur Roy

Ankur Roy

I am a Solutions Architect at Online Partner AB. I have worked on several projects involving Google Cloud services and Google Workspace along with multiple other technology stacks and platforms.

I am a Solutions Architect at Online Partner AB. I have worked on several projects involving Google Cloud services and Google Workspace along with multiple other technology stacks and platforms. Show more

Luca Cavallin

Luca Cavallin

Software Engineer at GitHub into dev tools, cloud native, systems, networking, sharing knowledge. Off-hours: photography, cycling, kamados, cats.

Software Engineer at GitHub into dev tools, cloud native, systems, networking, sharing knowledge. Off-hours: photography, cycling, kamados, cats. Show more

Rivu Chakraborty

Rivu Chakraborty

Rivu Chakraborty is India's first Kotlin GDE, an Android developer, a community person, & one of the early adopters of Kotlin. With overall 11+ years of experience, he works at Viacom18 - JioCinema (India's biggest OTT platform) as Android Architect / Senior Manager. He previously used to work at Meesho (a promising unicorn E-Commerce Startup from India), Gojek (one of South-East Asia's biggest startups), Paytm (India's biggest Fintech startup), and Byju's (one of India's biggest Edtech startup).

He has contributed to multiple Kotlin and Android Development books including authoring Reactive Programming in Kotlin, co-authoring Functional Kotlin the first-ever book to help Kotlin developers learn Functional Programming and use Arrow-kt in their projects, and co-authoring Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Kotlin.

He has been using Kotlin since December 2015. Rivu formed KotlinKolkata User Group, the first active Kotlin User Group in India. Before he had to move out of Kolkata, he was organizing meetups and events for both KotlinKolkata and GDG Kolkata. Along with organizing community & events, he also speaks at events/conferences and local meetups.

Rivu Chakraborty is India's first Kotlin GDE, an Android developer, a community person, & one of the early adopters of Kotlin. With overall 11+ years of experience, he works at Viacom18 - JioCinema (India's biggest OTT platform) as Android Architect ... Show more

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Google Developer Experts

The Google Developer Experts (GDE) program is a community-driven initiative by Google that recognizes individuals with expertise in one or more Google technologies. These technologies include but are not limited to Android, Web Technologies (such as Angular, Firebase, Polymer, etc.), Cloud Platform (including Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Kubernetes, etc.), Machine Learning, Google Assistant, and more.

Google Developer Experts are typically highly skilled professionals who actively contribute to the developer community through various means, such as speaking at conferences, writing articles and tutorials, organizing events, participating in forums, contributing to open-source projects, and mentoring other developers.

Being recognized as a Google Developer Expert comes with benefits such as access to Google's resources and early access to new technologies, opportunities to collaborate with Google product teams, invitations to exclusive events, and visibility within the developer community.

The program aims to foster a network of experts who can help developers worldwide by sharing their knowledge and experience with Google technologies.