Meet the Team
The last 6 months at DDD Perth has seen us hit some amazing milestones:
- Becoming the largest software conference in Perth with over 300 registered attendees
- Trending on Twitter for the conference day
- Blind submissions and voting for the 2017 conference (did you see our kick-ass agenda that came from this??)
- Incorporation of DDD WA Inc with a capable and enthusiastic board of directors, ready for 2018!
DDD Perth started in 2015, and two dedicated people, Robert Daniel Moore and Matt Davies have been driving the conference forward each and every year. In 2017, we spread the load amongst a wider group, and in 2018 we’ve formalised the conference with the incorporation of DDD WA Inc. It’s the DDD Perth committee you know and love, with a new name (for the association only) and a big ‘ole cup of motivation for the future.
So, let’s meet the team involved in DDD Perth for 2018.
Lee Campbell
Lee describes himself as an angry, messy, intolerant dev who has a compelling need to contribute to the community to make up for his sins. He’s a freelance developer, author and presenter with extensive experience in concurrent programming, composite applications, web and integration technologies.
Lee’s vision for DDD WA is a platform where we can grow the broad base of Junior members of the community so that they can challenge the seniors. At the other end of the spectrum provide the content and challenging ideas that can help our seniors become world leaders.
Rebecca Waters
Rebecca is a software engineer and project manager who feeds off the enthusiasm of others and contributes widely to the Perth software industry. She is a mentor in and outside of her company to junior developers and other professionals, an ex-officio board member of the Australian Industry and Defence Network of WA, and committee member of the Australian Computer Society — Women chapter.
Rebecca’s vision for DDD WA is to be the place you want to be at, and DDD Perth the conference you can’t afford to miss.
Rob Moore
Rob is a Principal Consultant for Readify. He’s Passionate about leading software teams to deliver business value.
Rob wants an inclusive and accessible conference for the Perth software industry, and will work hard to make DDD Perth that conference!
Ian Hughes
Ian Hughes likes code, science, travel, beer, and footy. He’s a Principal Consultant with Readify during the week, primarily in Agile, DevOps and Mobile; he does other stuff on the weekend, like trying to bring the amazing developer community in WA together to talk about and share their experiences at DDD Perth and the Agile Perth Meetup.
Rob Crowley
Rob is a software consultant, developer and team lead with a passion for delivering systems that perform at scale. Rob has over 15 years of experience building distributed systems on the web stack and has read more RFCs than he cares to admit. He has spoken at various conferences around Australia such as Elastic{ON}, DDD Melbourne and NDC Sydney and brings a wealth of experience to DDD WA.
Aidan Morgan
Aidan likes whiskey and making things. He is an experienced CTO and is currently the head of engineering at Boundlss. He is most passionate about machine learning, Agile and the Perth Startup community, but is mainly interested in getting things done. He also hates talking about himself in the third person.
Aidan is passionate about DDD Perth because he likes connecting people and learning more about the cool things that are going on in the Perth software community.
Matt Ward
Matt is a technical lead at Bankwest and full stack developer. Matt is passionate about Junior Developers and is involved in the juniordev.io movement in Perth as well as DDD Perth.
Ashley Aitken
Ashley is an entrepreneur, software engineer, IT trainer and academic, and family man. He’s trained software developers and IT professionals for companies like IBM, Apple, and HP, and organised and presented at IT conferences around the world. He’s also a big fan of Lean Startup with Customer Development and runs the Lean Startup Perth meetup.
Ashley’s vision for DDD Perth is for it to encourage and support WA software developers to lead the world in software development practices. He believes we don’t have to just follow, we can set the pace and direction and DDD Perth will play a big part in that.
Marjan Zia
Marjan is a passionate software developer who feels lucky to work in the finance industry. Her main hobby is to build applications that bring benefits to the end users. She is a very customer focused person who puts the customers at the heart of her development cycle. Her main career goal is to become a tech-lead to aid development teams with designing software packages.
Her main goal being part of DDD is to help organise events that WA Tech lovers want to attend and get great benefit from.
Derek Bingham
Derek is a journeyman developer, building software applications over the past 20 years in many stacks you can and can’t imagine.
Witnessing the inclusivity and diversity that DDD has brought to the Perth community has been inspirational and he hopes to make a contribution to that continuing. Currently plying his trade at Amazon Web Services.
Jake Ginnivan
Jake is the Digital Development Manager for Seven West Media and an Open Source Software enthusiast. Jake’s a seasoned presenter and workshop facilitator. Jake has spoken most recently at NDC Sydney, NDC London, and DDD Perth. He brings a wealth of experience to DDD WA.
Andrea Chagas
Andrea Chagas is a mobile developer at Bankwest. She is a tech enthusiast who is passionate about collaboration with colleagues. She is constantly cooking up new ideas and ways to do things.
