Walter Bright

Walter Bright

Walter Bright is the creator and first implementer of the D programming language and has implemented compilers for several other languages. He's an expert in all areas of compiler technology, including front ends, optimizers, code generation, interpreter engines and runtime libraries. Walter regularly writes articles about compilers and programming, is known for engaging and informative presentations, and provides training in compiler development techniques. Many are surprised to discover that Walter is also the creator of the wargame Empire, which is still popular today over 30 years after its debut.

Andrei Alexandrescu

Andrei Alexandrescu

Andrei Alexandrescu coined the colloquial term "modern C++" (adapted from his award-winning book Modern C++ Design), used today to describe a collection of important C++ styles and idioms. He is also the coauthor (with Herb Sutter) of C++ Coding Standards and the author of The D Programming Language book. With Walter Bright, Andrei co-designed many important features of D and authored a large part of D's standard library. His research on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing completes a broad spectrum of expertise. Andrei holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University "Politehnica" Bucharest. He works with the D Language Foundation.

Laeeth Isharc

Laeeth Isharc

Laeeth Isharc graduated in 1996 from Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds an MA in Economics. Since 2014 he has been developing tools to apply technology to the investment process.

Mathis Beer

Mathis Beer

Mathis Beer has been working at Funkwerk for close to two years. In that time, he has witnessed and contributed to the transition of our design sentiment of OOP-heavy code made generic by a class hierarchy, to cleanly separated domains of concern connected by a plain-old-data semi-immutable domain model. This has various advantages.

Mathis is also known as “FeepingCreature”. He is the author of https://github.com/funkwerk/boilerplate.

Ali Çehreli

Ali Çehreli

Ali is a software engineer with programming language experiences mostly in C, C++, and D. His past work includes a fun stint at WekaIO, a high performance storage company that bases its technology entirely on D. Ali is the author of the book Programming in D, the Secretary and a board member of The D Language Foundation, former acting president of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the ACCU, an organizer of the Silicon Valley DLang meetup group, and a team member of the revolutionary Mill CPU. He currently works in the sensor fusion team of the Autonomous Driving division at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development, North America. One of his responsibilities is helping with ISO 26262 software safety issues.

John Colvin

John Colvin

I am a long time low-frequency contributor to the D community in various forms, ranging from one-line fixes on new dub repositories to wider visions of what D can do in science and GPU computing (my thanks to many other people for making their more substantial visions reality) to tips and tricks for comers both new and old on the D forums. I have a background in physics and aim to bring the disciplined yet creative pragmatism of that field to what I produce, both in open source and my work at Symmetry Investments.

Francesco Gallà

Francesco Gallà

Francesco Gallà is a MSc student in Computer Science at University of Turin, Italy. He is interested in language theory, network protocols and formal verification methods for concurrent programming, a topic which he's working on for his master thesis. He also enjoys hiking and climbing when he leaves the keyboard behind. He discovered D while looking for modern alternatives to C and C++ which could be used for system programming on multiple platforms (notably Linux). He took part in Symmetry Autumn of Code 2018 to work on the HTTP/2 implementation for the Vibe.d framework.

Lionello Lunesu

Lionello Lunesu

Lionello Lunesu is creator of Nounly and Co-Founder of Enuma Technologies, a hardware/software consultancy company in Hong Kong, building solutions for enterprise customers. Nounly started as a weekend project, but turned into a web app people started to rely on. To meet expectations, Nounly was ported to Vibe.D and is now hosted as an auto-scaling web service.

Luís Marques

Luís Marques

Luís currently works at lowRISC, a not-for-profit organization that creates open-source hardware and associated tools. In particular, Luís has been working on improving the RISC-V backend of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. He is a long-time D user. More recently he has been experimenting with D language extensions, such as for hardware design.

Alexandru Militaru

Alexandru Militaru

Alexandru Militaru is a student in his final year of bachelor’s studies and an undergraduate teaching assistant at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest. He is passionate about operating systems and compilers. In his bachelor thesis project, he uses the D programming language to strengthen the security of Linux kernel modules.

Jens Mueller

Jens Mueller

Jens studied computer science at Ulm University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Afterwards he started a Phd in Machine Learning and defended his thesis in 2014. He stayed for a brief post-doc and left academia in 2016 to join dunnhumby.

Kai Nacke

Kai Nacke

Kai Nacke is a professional IT architect. In his spare time he likes to develop open source applications. He was maintainer of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, and a committer of the LLVM project. His contributions to LDC include ports to different CPU architectures and operating systems. Another interest of him is using D for business applications. He is the developer of the D bindings for SAP. Besides being programmer, he is also the author of "D Web Development" and a speaker at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM).

Átila Neves

Átila Neves

Átila Neves has a PhD in Particle Physics for research done at CERN. Most of the time spent there required programming in C++, with a 2-year stint as a Perl programmer in the IT department's security team. He also worked for Cisco for almost 7 years, developing networking software in C and C++ and leading his teams in the areas of software quality and testing. He now works as a D consultant/programmer for Symmetry Investments. He spends his spare time yelling at the screen in frustration while waiting for computers to compile his code.

Razvan Nitu

Razvan Nitu

I am a PhD student doing my thesis on programming languages and I have been contributing to the D compiler for 2.5 years.

Guillaume Piolat

Guillaume Piolat

Guillaume Piolat worked as a professional complainer in various segments of the software industry: mostly signal processing. Struck by baldness early, he is now a purveyor of audio effects in the pro audio market, as Auburn Sounds. Guillaume created "D-idioms", a blog to bring awareness on the most mundane points of the language. You will likely see him rant about complexity on the D forums.

Robert Schadek

Robert Schadek

Robert Schadek received a Master degree in computer science at the University of Oldenburg. His master thesis was titled "DMCD A Distributed Multithreading Caching D Compiler" and introduced multi-threading among other optimizations to the compiler control flow. He was a computer science PhD student from 2012-2018 at the University of Oldenburg. His PhD research focuses on quorum systems in combination with graphs. Since 2018 he is happily using D in his day job working for Symmetry Investments.

Steven Schveighoffer

Steven Schveighoffer

Steven Schveighoffer has written several D libraries, including dcollections (container library) and iopipe (a high-performance i/o pipeline library). He has numerous contributions to both Phobos and Druntime, including rewriting the array runtime, and the RedBlackTree implementation. Most recently, he is working on getting the JSON iopipe library ready for release, including a full serializer.

Eduard Staniloiu

Eduard Staniloiu

Eduard is a PhD student and Teaching Assistant at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest. He is a hard working student who enjoys ​to get his hands dirty

He likes learning new technologies and strengthening his current knowledge. He is passionate about computer science, programming languages, coffee and doing nothing. His previous experience includes distributed systems and parallel programming, operating systems, basic kernel development, open-source software and basic Android programming. He is a Linux fan, a command line addict and a vim enthusiast. He hopes that through his work he will be able to help and improve the D language, which he is becoming so fond of.

Bastiaan Veelo

Bastiaan Veelo

Bastiaan Veelo is the lead developer of a specialised program for the computer aided geometric design of ship hulls called Fairway, for the company SARC in the Netherlands. He holds a B.Eng. in naval architecture from the Haarlem Polytechnic, an M.Sc. in marine technology and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has been following the development of the D programming language from its early days, but only started using it actively since 2015 when he saw a chance to change his own future. Now he is well on his way in his master plan to convert his employer's business to a D shop.

Ethan Watson

Ethan Watson

Fourth time lucky? Ethan Watson is a bit of a vet when it comes to D Conf, having presented at the three previous events. An unhealthy fascination with squirrels aside, his talks are regarded for being information-rich and entertaining at the same time—thanks to combining 16 years of experience as a programmer in the video games industry with his experience in amateur stand-up comedy. He is currently in the process of setting up a middleware studio and working at another Finnish game studio (Housemarque) at the same time.

Sebastian Wilzbach

Sebastian Wilzbach

Sebastian has contributed to D’s core repositories with more than 2.000 pull requests and, while he secretly hates D, he still thinks it's by far the least ugly language. Among others things, he is the guy behind run.dlang.io, D’s Functional Garden, the DTour, the D documentation archives, and those mysterious pull requests to your project. Currently, he is helping to organize D’s 2019 GSoC as one of the organization admins for the D programming language.