Conference Speakers

Aaron Conran, Sencha

Aaron Conran leads the development of Ext Designer. Aaron has been involved with Sencha since its very beginnings and has an in-depth understanding of Ext JS internals and architecture. He has demonstrated mastery of the Ext JS library and client-side development practices.

Abraham Elias, Sencha

Abraham is responsible for overseeing the company’s strategic direction and enabling its rapid growth as a global provider of application development software and services. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at BH Capital Partners. Abraham’s results driven management and introduction of commercial open source solutions enabled BH Capital to become one of the fastest growing privately held companies in Florida. Abraham brings an entrepreneurial spirit and a proven track record of achieving revenue goals and profit growth.

Aditya Bansod, Sencha

Aditya is Sencha’s senior director of product management and is responsible for the product planning and strategy for Sencha’s product lines. Prior to Sencha, Aditya held various senior product management roles at Adobe and Microsoft, focusing on developers and media in the mobile and consumer electronics space.

Alan Stokol, Juniper

Alan is the Director of Developer Tools + Experience at Juniper Networks, Inc. where he drives product architecture and user experience for the Juniper’s (software) developer tools. Previously as a Design Director in the Experience Design Team at HP, he chaired the global UX committee and led efforts that resulted in standards and guidelines for software experience across Hewlett-Packard.

Allen Liu, ClickTime

Allen is a lead application developer at ClickTime. For the past three years, with his undeniable passion for JavaScript and other web technologies, he and his team are proud to have created one of the most sophisticated and visually pleasing time and expense reporting websites on the market today. Prior to joining ClickTime, Allen was a senior application developer for a large retail IT department and a global consulting company. He is currently spending his free time exploring NodeJS and creating the “most awesomest” wedding website for his fiancée.

Ariya Hidayat, Sencha

Ariya Hidayat leads the WebKit team at Sencha. He has been a passionate open-source advocate for the last 10 years, and has contributed code to many projects including WebKit, Qt, and KDE. Before joining Sencha, he worked in the Web Technologies group inside the Qualcomm Innovation Center. Prior to that, he worked on the Trolltech Qt Development Framework (now part of Nokia). Ariya holds a Ph.D magna cum laude in optical communication systems from the University of Paderborn, Germany.

Arne Bech, Sencha

Arne Bech leads development on Sencha Animator. He is passionate about technology; in the past he has designed and built physical products as well as run his own web company in his native Norway. Arne holds a M.S in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Arthur Kay, Sencha

Arthur Kay is a member of the Sencha Professional Services team and has been deeply involved with the Sencha community for several years. He lives in the greater-Chicago area and runs the Chicago Sencha User Group.

Ashvin Radiya, AvantSoft, Inc.

Ashvin Radiya is the President and CTO of AvantSoft Inc, a premiere Sencha Partner. He is the organizer of meetup.com/MobileCloud in Bay Area, CA. His current focus is on delivering high quality HTML5, hybrid, and native mobile apps on phones and tablets. For the last 15 years, he has been an entrepreneur starting Avantsoft, EclipseUniversity, EZPrintTool, and ConnectSpan. He has developed partnerships with high profile companies such as IBM, Freescale, Corporate Express, HP, BEA, and Sencha. He has worked at IBM. He has expertise in Mobile and Cloud Applications, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, Eclipse Plugins, and Java. He studied at IIT, Mumbai and Syracuse Universities.

Brendan Coughran, Sencha

Brendan leads the Ext GWT graphics effort at Sencha. He is passionate about graphics technology and has years of experience developing with Java. He has worked with dozens of graphics APIs, ranging from using ncurses for terminal interfaces to building his own software renderer.

Brian Moeskau, Sencha

Brian has over 17 years of experience as a software developer and technical architect.  His focus for the past decade has been on web application development and client side framework development.  An original cofounder of Ext JS, Brian has been deeply involved in the Ext framework since even before version 1.0.  Now as a developer with Sencha Brian continues to work on Ext JS and most recently wrote the Ext 3 compatibility layer that shipped with Ext 4.

Chris Alfano, Jarvus Innovations

Chris started programming in high school to support his gaming habits, and co-founded Jarv.us Innovations after dropping out of business school so he could keep playing. He started using ExtJS at version 2 to build administration backends for websites, so when Sencha Touch was released that experience enabled him to quickly train and tool his web development team for building cross-platform mobile apps using the skills they’d already tuned. In addition to leading development at Jarv.us, Chris is the architect of the open-source Emergence platform and helps the Science Leadership Academy apply technology to building the ultimate School 2.0.

Colin Alworth, Sencha

Colin Alworth has been a member of the Ext GWT community for a number of years, and has joined the team to contribute to 3.0’s successful release. With several years of Javascript, GWT, and Ext GWT experience, he brings real-world knowledge and use cases to Sencha’s next generation of GWT tools and components.

Craig Walker, Xero

Craig Walker is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of small business accounting software provider Xero. Xero has over 50,000 customers in over 100 countries and Craig has recently relocated to San Francisco to start the US based office.

Craig currently leads Xero’s software development technology strategy. He has a morbid obsession with JavaScript and not having to use any other language for development (much to the amusement of his colleagues).

Craig and Xero have been keen evangelists of Sencha products having utilized Sencha JavaScript libraries across Xero’s entire product line. Craig’s most recent fun project was building Xero Touch, a Sencha Touch-based mobile version of Xero released for the web and into the Apple App Store (and soon to be launched for Android).

Cyrus Mistry, Google

Cyrus is currently the Senior Product Manager in charge of the Chrome and Chrome OS for Business, Education, and Government software development ecosystem. Cyrus has managed the consumer and enterprise sides of several products at Google including Google Calendar, Google Tasks, the search appliance business, the Google Mini, and Google Enterprise Labs.  Cyrus has 13 years of software experience with roles in software development, consulting, program management, product management, marketing, and business development.  Cyrus has four degrees from Johns Hopkins with Masters work in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.

Daniel Gallo, BMT Defence Services Ltd

Dan Gallo is a Senior Software Developer at BMT Defence Services in Bath (one of the best cities in the UK!).  He has been developing innovative web-based applications for over 8 years using a variety of technologies and
specialises in ASP.NET C# and JavaScript.  Over the past 3 years he has used Ext JS extensively, and more recently Sencha Touch.

Dan has a keen interest in Sencha’s technologies, helping to lead the UK software development industry in their use.  Dan established the South-West England Sencha Meetup Group, as well as developing a .NET implementation of Sencha Touch.

Daniel Menard, Macadamian Technologies

Software developer, web enthusiast, general optimist. I create killer software products at Macadamian Technologies.

Darrell Meyer, Sencha

Darrell Meyer leads the Ext GWT product team at Sencha. Before joining the company, Darrell was the creator of the popular open source MyGWT Widget Library for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Darrell brings his expert Java and GWT knowledge to Sencha. With 10+ year’s experience building enterprise web applications, Darrell is equally well versed as both a software architect and user interface expert.

David Chandler, Google

David works with the Google Web Toolkit team in Atlanta. An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has since written Web applications professionally in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, and GWT. Prior to joining Google, Chandler worked on Internet banking applications with Intuit and launched a non-profit startup built with GWT and Google App Engine. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and blogs about Java Web development at turbomanage.wordpress.com.

David Kaneda, Sencha

David Kaneda leads the Sencha design team. He has over eight years of experience designing in a variety of fields, from architecture and fashion to education and software. Recently, David created Outpost, an iPhone app for Basecamp, and jQTouch, a Javascript framework for iPhone development. David also maintains WebKitBits, a site about the browser engine in Safari, Google Chrome, and the iPhone. David brings his wealth of design knowledge to Sencha, and is responsible for the look and feel of our websites and software.

Devshi Pindoria, Sencha

Devshi is senior engineering manager and is responsible for the delivery of Sencha Designer and Sencha Animator products. Prior to Sencha, Devshi held various senior engineering management positions at Adobe, Autodesk and number of other companies, with focus on high quality delivery of desktop, mobile & web applications and development tools that delights customers.

Don Griffin, Sencha

Don Griffin is a member of the Ext JS core team. He was an Ext JS user for 2 years before joining Sencha and has over 20 years of software engineering experience on a broad range of platforms. His experience includes designing web application front-ends and back-ends, native GUI applications, network protocols and device drivers. Don’s passion is to build world class products that people love to use.

Doug Millasich, Nanocrowd

Doug designs and develops the code and databases that drive Nanocrowd products. He has 20 years of experience with companies like Honeywell and Sabre, building applications in a variety of programming languages and databases. These days he builds mobile web applications using C#, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, MySQL, WebSQL, and Sencha Touch.

Drew Neil, Studio Nelstrom

Drew Neil is an independent web developer and technical writer. He’s worked with Rails for 4 years, and with Sencha Touch since the early betas. If you’ve ever watched his series of introductory screencasts on Sencha Touch, then you’ll recognise his mild Scottish accent. Besides loving Sencha frameworks, his other nerdcrush is for Vim. He runs the Vimcasts.org podcast, and is currently writing his first book, Practical Vim, for the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Ed Schmit, AT&T

Ed Schmit is a Marketing Director with the AT&T Developer Program, where his mission is to provide support and guidance for the developer community. He has been with AT&T for six years. During his career at AT&T, he has co-authored the Wireless Reference Architecture and several white papers while enlightening budding mobile application entrepreneurs through programs like AT&T’s “Open Call”. He is currently very involved with the API Platform. He also has a patent pending for an application delivery platform. Prior to joining AT&T, he worked for Intel for nine years in a variety of roles and while there participating in founding the Khronos Group.

Ed Spencer, Sencha

Ed Spencer leads the development of Ext JS and supporting projects. An expert with Ext JS and JavaScript in general and with several years experience with traditional server side frameworks, he has broad experience in API design and delivery. His passion is in crafting beautiful code that supports the world-class Sencha product line.

Fabian Urban, FORTIS IT-Services GmbH

Fabian Urban (27) is an IT Consultant at FORTIS IT-Services GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. He is a web development expert for both - client and server side technologies.

During his professional career he designed and implemented interfaces and automated services to share data between affiliate partners and CRM and billing solutions at the telecommunications industry.

As a passionate rich internet application developer he has not only implemented web technology solutions, but has always tried to validate and optimize available frameworks to the limit of possibilities. Besides organizing and holding sessions at the Ext JS User Group Hamburg, he will talk about modern RIAs at the SenchaCon 2011.

Grgur Grisogono, Modus Create

A JavaScript lover focused on Ext JS and Sencha Touch. Exploiting the passion as a Sr JavaScript developer at Modus Create. Grgur has architected and developed market leading national, regional, and local development web apps used by 6 governments, 600+ municipalities, and government departments in several European countries. This year, he has organized Sourc{, a hugely successful developer oriented mobile and desktop web app conference, sponsored by Sencha.

Jacky Nguyen, Sencha

Jacky Nguyen is one of the core engineers behind Sencha frameworks. With his well-rounded knowledge and experiences on both server-side and client-side development as well as industry best practices, he is responsible for designing and improving Sencha frameworks’ overall architectures. He was the author of MooTouch, which has become a part of Sencha Labs. Jacky is passionate about bringing innovation to software development and developers.

James Pearce, Sencha

James Pearce heads developer relations at Sencha. He is a technologist, writer, developer and practitioner, who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. James is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, WhitherApps, modernizr-server and confess.js, and has written books on mobile web development for both Wiley and Wrox.

Jamie Avins, Sencha

Jamie Avins leads the graphics team at Sencha and also manages a wide range of other projects. He is an expert in a diverse range of both client and server technologies that includes 20 years of real world experience in the industry.

Jarred Nicholls, Sencha

Jarred Nicholls is the lead engineer on Ext Designer and a proud member of the Sencha WebKit engineering team. Jarred enjoys hacking on WebKit, JavaScript engines, and the latest drafts of HTML5 APIs.

Jason Johnston, Sencha

Jason is an engineer on the Sencha Designer team where he leads the development of support for Sencha Touch. He is passionate about the open Web and is the creator of CSS3 PIE. A classically trained musician with a degree in piano performance, Jason approaches writing software the same way he approaches music: a dynamic blend of art and science, requiring constant practice, where there is always room for further refinement and creativity.

Jay Garcia, Modus Create

Jay Garcia is Co-Founder and CTO of Modus Create, Inc. Jay is an engaging author and world-recognized thought leader, which is evident in his writing and consulting work on JavaScript, Ext JS and Sencha Touch framework. Prior to co-founding Modus, Jay founded TDG Innovations in 2006 to provide training and consulting to many private corporations and government facilities. Jay continues to share his knowledge through many venues, including extensive involvement in the Sencha community, online video tutorials, speaking at public engagements and authoring Ext JS in Action. Jay is currently revising Ext JS in Action to compliment the release of Ext JS 4.0, while simultaneously co-authoring Sencha Touch in Action 2.0. Jay is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and was honorably discharged after having served during the operation Southern Watch in the Persian Gulf.

John Merrells, Sencha

John Merrells works on Sencha.io. He’s built large scale distributed systems for some of Silicon Valley’s most notable companies. And also some of its most notable failures. By all means feed him beer, but don’t get him onto the subject of Erlang.

John Wilander, Svenska Handelsbanken

John Wilander is a frontend software developer at Svenska Handelbanken, the second strongest bank in the world according to Bloomberg Markets. He has been researching and working in application security for ten years and recently organized the OWASP Browser Security sessions in Portugal, with participants from the security teams behind Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, and PayPal. During his years in academia he was elected best computer science teacher twice and nowadays gives 5-10 professional talks per year.

Laurent Hasson, Research In Motion

Laurent is the Technical Director responsible for driving strategy, architecture, open source and community relationships around RIM’s Web Platform. He joined RIM in the Spring 2010 and has been focused on the WebKit browser, WebWorks, Ripple, and recently, experimental projects such as AliceJS. Before that, he was at IBM for 14 years, working on enterprise Web projects such as eCommerce, Web frameworks and tooling, Search and Social Software, and participated in open source strategies in the company. Laurent has been deep in web technologies since the mid 90’s and is an avid JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Java and SQL developer for both Desktop and Mobile. He codes and watches at least one movie every day, and he has funny hair.

Luca Candela, Sencha

Luca is Sencha’s product manager for the Tools product line. Luca has been involved in the creation of web applications as a designer, developer and product manager, in the Enterprise as well as in the Consumer space for a variety of companies before joining Sencha.  Luca was born and raised in Italy, is passionate about UX, good design and playing guitar.

Mats Bryntse, Bryntum AB

Mats has been a software developer for over 10 years, working mainly with JavaScript and .NET. For the past four years he’s been fully focused on Ext JS and he is frequently supporting fellow users in the Sencha forums. Mats also founded two Ext JS user groups in both San Francisco and Malmö, which combined have over 400 members.

Currently Mats is running his own company Bryntum, which creates advanced components and extensions for Ext JS and Sencha Touch.

Michael Mullany, Sencha

Michael has more than 12 years’ experience in product marketing and management for Silicon Valley software companies. Prior to Sencha, he held product and executive marketing roles at influential Silicon Valley startups Netscape, Loudcloud and VMware. At virtualization leader VMware, he served as the vice president of worldwide marketing during its break-out into server computing. Most recently, he was VP marketing & products for startups Engine Yard and Peakstream (acquired by Google). Michael has an extensive track record of defining and executing product and go-to-market strategies. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Harvard College.

Mitchell Simoens, Sencha

Being part of the Professional Services team, Mitchell Simoens has been a great asset to Sencha and the community through the Sencha Forums and his many repositories on GitHub. Mitchell Simoens is also moving into a full-time position working to support the community through the Sencha Forums with several years and thousands of forum posts.

Nick Poulden, Sencha

Nick Poulden leads the Sencha Documentation efforts. He has many years experience as a backend and frontend Javascript engineer among many other web technologies. Nick is passionate about building tools that enable developers to teach themselves to code more effectively.

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, Sencha

Nicolas is the creator of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, a web standard based toolkit to create advanced data visualizations for the Web, and V8-GL, a hardware accelerated graphics library built on top of the Google V8 JavaScript Engine. Nicolas’s main interests are web standards and information visualization. You can find him blogging at thejit.org.

Nils Dehl, dkd Internet Service GmbH

Nils Dehl is 28-year-old senior developer living in Darmstadt Germany, working for dkd Internet Service GmbH, an owner-managed full-service internet agency specialized in TYPO3 in Frankfurt Germany.

Nils has worked in ExtJS application development since version 2.x, and Sencha Touch since its beginning. Besides development, he also holds training and conference talks for both products and is the organizer of the ExtJS/Sencha Touch meetup in Frankfurt.

In his spare time he plays table-tennis and squash, likes to travel, read and ski and of course photography. Nils is the official ‘unofficial’ Sencha conference photographer!

Phil Strong, Sencha

Phil is an engineer on the Sencha Designer team where he leads the core development of Designer. He’s a full stack web developer with a passion for making the web and software better.  Phil is blessed to have a wonderful wife and 2 year old son.

Rich Waters, Extnd LLC

Chief Application Architect & Founder at Extnd LLC. Rich has been working with Ext JS since the very beginning and was a core developer for versions 1.x through 3.x. He now focuses on instructing courses & helping companies implement Ext JS & Sencha Touch solutions

Rob Dougan, Sencha

Rob Dougan is a Sencha core engineer with an eye for pixel-perfect designs. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, he has been building advanced Sencha applications for years and is a valued asset to the team. In his spare time he enjoys photography and cooking with his wife.

Roderic March, Nanocrowd

Roderic has founded and led several ventures ranging from low-technology LBO’s to high-tech start-ups, including FirstFloor Software which merged with Calico Commerce and went public. His passion is developing tools that analyze and predict consumer preferences and purchase behavior. At Nanocrowd, Roderic’s focus is on building technology that understands why people like things - starting with movies.

Ryon Coleman, Jarvus Innovations

Ryon has practiced HTML and CSS ever since since elementary school, when his father brought home a photocopy of an HTML2 tutorial and set him up with a text editor and Netscape to tinker. He is a passionate follower of the latest markup and styling techniques, so designing Sencha Touch applications seemed like a natural fit. At Jarvus, a company started by some high school friends, he has had the opportunity to work with some high-profile clients, working their well-known brands into SASS and HTML5.

Sidney Maestre, PayPal

Sidney is a Developer Evangelist with PayPal and the organizer of BAM!, Bay Area Mobile, a meetup focused on Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, Adobe AIR and other multi-platform mobile technologies. In the past, Sidney presented to the Online ColdFusion meetup and last year’s SenchaCon. In September he’ll present at NCDevCon on integrating PayPal APIs with ColdFusion.

Stephen Bixby, Pegasystems

Steve has over 12 years of experience in the software business focusing on large-scale enterprise deployments of browser-based technology.  He is currently the Director of Product Management at Pegasystems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software.  Steve is holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and currently resides in Essex, MA with his wife and three children.

Stephen Pond, Sabre Holdings

Stephen Pond is a key contributor to the Enterprise Mobility Group at Sabre Holdings, Southlake ,Texas. This group is responsible for the architecture, design, creation and deployment of ubiquitous mobile services, exploiting technology advances. With his background in developing client-side web applications, utilizing ExtJS and other client-rich frameworks, Stephen’s skills are essential.

Among others, Stephen’s contributions include developing new capability for GetThere, a corporate travel application. With the release of Sencha Touch 1.0, Stephen leveraged both the framework’s MVC and rich Ajax components to create one of the first HTML5 mobile travel applications. The application is industry-recognized, permitting corporate travelers advanced mobile tools to to book flights and hotels. Stephen continues his work to advance design and development of mobile applications for the travel and tourism industry.

Sven Brunken, Sencha

Tobias Uhlig, Sencha

Tobias works with the Sencha Frameworks on a fulltime basis since he joined the Sencha Community at the very beginning in May 2007. As a passionate User Interface Engineer for over a decade, besides building amazing Rich Internet Applications, he has specialized in creating Custom Components and Extensions on top of the Sencha Frameworks as well as Theming and Performance Improvements. After working on one of the worlds largest Ext JS Applications at Refined Labs for 1.5 years, he is now joining Sencha to bring in his experience and knowledge. Tobias founded the Sencha Usergroup in Munich, Germany

Tommy Maintz, Sentient Services

Tommy Maintz is the original lead of Sencha Touch. With extensive knowledge of Object Oriented JavaScript and mobile browser idiosyncrasies, he pushes the boundaries of what is possible within mobile browsers. Tommy brings a unique view point and an ambitious philosophy to creating engaging user interfaces. His attention to detail drives his desire to make the perfect framework for developers to enjoy.