Everything about the cutting edge of Kotlin

Eugene is a developer advocate at JetBrains, software developer, speaker, and blogger. His interests include software development, distributed systems design, cloud computing, and programming languages. Eugene holds a PhD in computer science, and he writes code in Kotlin, Go, Java, C/C++, Kotlin/Native, and JavaScript. A Kotlin fun for years he started using Kotlin before 1.0 and completed his first production Kotlin app back in 2013.

Wojtek is a Developer Advocate at Google and works primarily to support developers in building great apps using Android Studio and Kotlin, as well as teaches about new Framework and Play features. He enjoys looking for ways to make apps more usable, mostly through better development patterns and code optimizations.

Qian works as an Android developer, and also organises the meetup Mobile Things, a local mobile developer gathering in the city of Paris. She likes to build shoebox robots in her spare time. Her current center of interest is applying machine learning technologies to mobile and IoT applications. She is a firm believer of Calm Technology & enthusiast for TechForGood subjects.

Jorge Castillo is an Android developer currently working as Mobile Tech Lead at 47 Degrees. He is actively focused on Functional Programming and applying those concepts to mobile development. He’s an active part of the official maintainers team for Λrrow. Jorge has been speaker since years ago, having talked at events like KotlinConf, Mobilization, or Droidcon.

Google Developer Expert and freelance dev. He has been working with mobile technologies and learning from them since 2007. He is an avid contributor to the open source community and a FLOSS kind of guy, being among the top 10 open source Java contributors in Germany. He is a part of the Google LaunchPad accelerator, where he participates in Google global initiatives to influence hundreds of the best startups from all around the globe. He is also a big data and machine learning aficionado.

Sanat is a backend engineer currently working at N26. He has 5 years of experience of developing distributed microservices and large enterprise applications using JVM-based languages. He is passionate about functional programming and different architectural patterns and trying to apply them on daily basis.

Amanda is an Android developer, blogger, and co-organizer at Chicago KUG with a passion for native desktop development and metaprogramming in statically-typed languages. She’s active in the community online and offline hosting workshops, crowd-sourced tutorials on Kotlin Thursdays as well as working with other tech communities in Chicago to bring open-source as a culture shift in the industry.  She’s spoken at engagements like KotlinConf, WindyCity Dev Fest, and even a Talking Kotlin episode.

Practical applications of Kotlin on the Android platform

Arnaud is a software developer for more than 12 years. Since a while now, he works mainly as an Android developer and keeps his hands in backend stuff. He is the Koin project lead developer, a lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin.

Born in Italy in 1987, passionate for everything that switches on and off and particularly for handheld and wearable devices. He loves to learn new languages such as Kotlin, patterns, and everything Android-related. He is am now working in The New York Times Android team as Android Engineer.

Guillermo is a Software Engineer that has been doing Android since it was commercially available. From sunny Spain through snowy Poland to rainy London, he is currently taking care of the core mobile platform efforts in Skyscanner. He believes Kotlin is a strong player in all the fields, and envisions a future where all things will be done in Kotlin. Warning: may contain traces of sarcasm and siesta.

A Kotlin enthusiast since the 1.0 of the language, and an aspiring writer, speaker, educator. Android developer and self-proclaimed Kotlin evangelist at AutSoft. Android/Kotlin tech editor for RayWenderlich.com. University student and instructor at BME-VIK, studying computer engineering while teaching Kotlin and Android. Creator of the MaterialDrawerKt and Krate libraries. Occasionally gets addicted to StackOverflow.

Viktor is an experienced mobile developer in the fields of finance, banking, security and employee development. Over the past several years he has had the opportunity to build great teams who build fantastic products. He believes in doing things right the first time, focuses on testability and efficiency, and is passionate about shorter code being better code. He loves Kotlin, because it enabled developers to be far more efficient.