Speakers
Maxim Khizhinsky / VAS Experts
Developer of highload server systems. Areas of interest: C++, multithreading, lock-free data structures. Author of concurrent data structures library — libcds. Idiosyncrasic to std::mutex, std::condition_variable and other synchronization primitives. Diagnosed a terminal incurable brain asynchrony.
Antony Polukhin / Yandex.Taxi
A representative of Russia at the C++ Standardization Committee. Author of several accepted proposals to the C++ standard.
Author of the Boost libraries: TypeIndex, DLL, Stacktrace; maintainer of Any, Conversion, LexicalCast, Variant.
Author of "Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook" and "Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook, Second Edition".
Talk(s)
C++ tricks from Yandex.Taxi
Sean Parent / Adobe
Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe's mobile digital imaging group. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe's Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple's successful transition to PowerPC.
Talk(s)
Better code: Relationships
Eric Niebler / Facebook
Eric Niebler is a senior engineer at Facebook and an active member of the ISO C++ Standardization Committee. He was the principal author of the Ranges TS, which forms the basis of the Range support in C++20, and of the range-v3 library on which it is based. Before Facebook, Eric consulted independently and with BoostPro computing. He has authored several Boost libraries and served as a Boost release manager and a member of the Boost Steering Committee. He's happiest when finding powerful, elegant, and efficient abstractions for complicated code, and firmly believes code can and should be fast and beautiful.
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach / NVIDIA
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach has spent nearly a decade developing libraries in C++. Bryce is passionate about C++ evolution and is one of the leaders of the C++ community. He is an officer of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21, the C++ Standards Committee. Bryce chairs both the C++ Committee's Tooling Study Group (SG15) and Library Evolution Incubator (SG18). He is the program chair for the C++Now and CppCon conferences, and the chief organizer of the Bay Area C++ User Group. On the C++ Committee, he has personally worked on the C++17 parallel algorithms, executors, futures, senders/receivers, multidimensional arrays, and modules. Bryce works at NVIDIA, where he leads the CUDA C++ core libraries team. He is one of the initial developers of the HPX parallel runtime system. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries.
Björn Fahller / Net Insight
Björn wrote his first program in 1980. After completing his MSc in CS and Engineering in 1994, programming has been the primary source of income, mostly from writing embedded software for communications systems. He has been working for a while at Net Insight, where he wears many hats, including mentor, trouble shooter, network communications expert, software architect and programmer; the latter in increasingly modern C++.
Occasionally Björn has been seen tinkering with unorthodox software constructs, pondering "what can be done with this?" He lives in Stockholm.
Mikhail Matrosov / Align Technology
Mikhail graduated from MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics and had been an employee there in Computer Graphics and Multimedia Laboratory. He was working on image processing, computer vision, and color theory.
Currently Mikhail is an expert software engineer in Moscow R&D office of Align Technology. He develops specialized 3D CAD system for designing orthodontic appliances.
Frequent speaker on numerous conferences: SECR, C++ Russia, SECON, CppCon. Co-author of the courses "Основы разработки на С++: коричневый пояс" and "Основы разработки на С++: чёрный пояс" on Coursera, which were developed jointly with Yandex.
Talk(s)
Clauses, qualifiers and patterns
Timur Doumler / audio++
Timur Doumler is a C++ developer specializing in audio and music technology, an active member of the ISO C++ committee, and part of the #include < C++ > team. He is passionate about building communities, clean code, good tools, and the evolution of C++.
Talk(s)
Type punning in modern C++
Marshall Clow / C++ Alliance
Marshall has been programming professionally for 35 years. He is the author of Boost.Algorithm, and has been a contributor to Boost for more than 15 years. He is the chairman of the Library working group of the C++ standard committee. He is the lead developer for libc++, the C++ standard library for LLVM.
Hana Dusíková / AVAST
Hana is working as a senior researcher at Avast Software. Her responsibility is exploring new ideas and optimizing existing ones. She also propagates modern C++ techniques and libraries in internal tech talks and gives talks at local C++ meetups. She studied computer science at Mendel University and subsequently taught several courses there, including Data Structures, Computability and Complexity, and Formal Languages and Automata.
Ivan Čukić / KDE
Ivan Čukić is the author of "Functional Programming in C++" published by Manning.
He is one of the core developers in KDE, the largest free/libre open source C++ project.
He is also teaching modern C++ techniques and functional programming at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade and has been using C++ for more than 20 years. He has been researching functional programming in C++ before and during his PhD studies, and uses the techniques in real-world projects.
Talk(s)
Compile-time type tagging
Karina Dorozhkina / Kaspersky Lab
Karina has been developing basic components for the top-of-the-line Kaspersky Lab products for four years. Last three years she has shifted focus to the transport security sector. During that time participated in the creating of several prototypes: secure gateway for cars on the basis of Kaspersky OS in partnership with the Austrian company AVL, EDR solution for cars head unit on the basis of QNX OS, conduct similar studies on the basis of the Genivi car platform. Wrote in C and C++.
