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title: Speakers
meta-description: A list of all the speakers planned for Scaleconf, South Africa
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<h1>Speakers</h1>
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We are proud to announce the following confirmed speakers
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<h4>Coda Hale</h4>
<p>Infrastructure Architect at Yammer, Inc.</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/coda'>@coda</a></p>
<p>Coda Hale is a software engineer and cyclist from San Francisco, California, and works for Yammer, an enterprise social network, as their infrastructure architect. He is into building small, fast services running on the JVM, designing horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, harvest-adjustable data stores, being bloody-minded about performance and security, taking advantage of all HTTP has to offer, and a bit of light cryptography.</p>
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<h4>Craig Raw</h4>
<p>Founding CTO, Quirk</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/craigraw'>@craigraw</a></p>
<p>
Craig is the founding CTO of Quirk, one of Africa's largest digital agencies. A programmer since before he can properly remember, Craig believes strongly in using technology to educate, create jobs and improve lives. As such, he's created and supported numerous pieces of widely used web-related software over the years, from the online reputation management tool BrandsEye to the open source Firefox extension SearchStatus.
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<img class='speaker' src='images/speakers/zachholman.png'/>
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<h4>Zach Holman</h4>
<p>Github Employee of the month</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/holman'>@holman</a></p>
<p>
Zach works at GitHub. When he's not doing that, he's blogging, hacking on open source, and filming screencasts that are anything but "traditional" screencasts. He attracted national media fame and glory when he built Facelette, a ridiculous three-hour experiment, and lost all of it again after admitting he sometimes stays home on Friday nights and replies to support emails.
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<img class='speaker' src='images/speakers/simondehaan.jpg'/>
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<h4>Simon de Haan</h4>
<p>Chief Engineer at Praekelt Foundation</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/smn'>@smn</a></p>
<p>
Growing up in the Middle East left an indelible impression on Simon and sparked a passionate interest in community development, entrepreneurship and technology. After completing a B.Eng in Media Technology in the Netherlands Simon worked for several prominent digital agencies before being appointed CTO of a promising internet startup in Amsterdam. In 2009 Simon moved to South Africa to focus on community development work through the use of technology to improve lives of the less privileged.
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<img class='speaker' src='images/speakers/milesward.png'/>
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<h4>Miles Ward</h4>
<p>Amazon Web Services Technology Solutions Architect</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/'></a></p>
<p>
Miles Ward is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur with a decade of experience building global-scale analysis infrastructures. Miles has been at Amazon Web Services since 2010 and is responsible for designing and developing AWS Solution Architectures relating to big data and social analytics, multi-tiered storage, HA and DR approaches for RDBMS systems, and cost optimization using Spot. Miles recently published the AWS SQL Server on EC2 white paper, is a patent holder and consummate geek.
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<img class='speaker' src='images/speakers/wesleylynch.png'/>
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<h4>Wesley Lynch</h4>
<p>Founder and CEO of Realmdigital</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/wesleylynch'>@wesleylynch</a></p>
<p>
Driven by a passion for software and problem solving, Wesley Lynch founded Realmdigital in
1999. Wesley, a technology entrepreneur, has over a decade of experience in the financial,
business and software development industries; gained both locally and during his time in
the UK. He is deeply involved in producing innovative technology solutions for African and
international businesses and regularly shares his knowledge and experience through
participation in various industry event.
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<img class='speaker' src='images/speakers/jonathan.jpg'/>
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<h4>Jonathan Hitchcock</h4>
<p>Operations Lead at Yola.com</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/vhata'>@vhata</a></p>
<p>
Jonathan is the Operations Team Leader at Yola.com. During his time there, he has helped scale the site to where it is now, currently hosting around ten million sites. Involved in the world of startups, DevOps and scalability, he wants to help seed the culture here in Cape Town, and hopes that ScaleConf will aid that.
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<h4>Bryn Divey</h4>
<p>Engineer at Nimbula</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/bryndivey'>@bryndivey</a></p>
<p>
Bryn Divey has worked in several Cape Town startups, and has spent the last three years at Nimbula building a cloud operating system. He spends his days building distributed, self-healing software which can cope with scale, and in his spare time he repeatedly tries to learn Haskell.
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<h4>Ashley Peter</h4>
<p>Founder, 2go</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/2gomessenger'>@2gomessenger</a></p>
<p>
Ashley co-founded 2go while studying at university. Since then he has helped grow and scale one of Africa's most popular social networks. His time is spent scaling the company and technology behind 2go. Ashley is passionate about creating things, breaking things and connecting with people.
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<h4>Andy Gross</h4>
<p>Principal Architect at Basho Technologies</p>
<p><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/argv0'>@argv0</a></p>
<p>
Andy is a distributed systems nerd and Principal Architect at Basho Technologies, the company behind the Riak distributed data store. Before Riak, Andy hacked on various distributed systems at Mochi Media, Apple Computer, and Akamai Technologies.
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