Speakers

David is an open source contributor and project member for the Go programming language. David is a well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of topics such as software design, performance, and the Go programming language.

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

Florin Pățan is a consultant at Ardan Labs with over 12 years of Go experience. He's worked across distributed systems, application architecture, observability, and cloud infrastructure — with time spent at fintech, healthcare, and AI companies like Bread Financial, Press Ganey, drand, and PredictionGuard.

He has worked AI startups and enterprise companies where he built the infrastructure from the ground up and designed the systems backend from scratch, taking an early-stage platform to something production teams could actually rely on. Before Ardan Labs, he was at JetBrains as a Developer Advocate for Go — contributing to the Delve debugger and helping make GoLand the IDE that thousands of Go developers use daily.

Ron is an award-winning software developer and expert in robotics/IoT/computer vision who is very active in the free and open-source community. He has helped many clients such as AT&T, Intel, Sphero, and Northvolt solve some of their most difficult technical and business problems.

Ron is a code contributor to many open-source hardware/software projects and is one of the maintainers of TinyGo (https://tinygo.org), as well as the creator of the open-source IoT/robotics framework Gobot (https://gobot.io), computer vision framework GoCV (https://gocv.io), and embedded WebAssembly framework Mechanoid (https://mechanoid.io).