Starting as a humble intern, Rune has now been with Umbraco HQ for 4 years. He has been working with pretty much anything you can get your hands on in a growing company like Umbraco, ranging from marketing, development, onboarding, documentation, support and more. Today, he has firmly settled into the role as the “Umbraco Coach & Cloud Counselor”, heading the Umbraco training and certification program along with onboarding new clients to the Umbraco Cloud. Rune’s enthusiasm for all things Umbraco is only rivaled by his intense love for pour over coffee.

Emma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bristol at an Umbraco Gold Partner called Rock Solid Knowledge. She has been a developer for 11 years, working in the travel, charity and financial sectors along with several agencies. Through most of her career she has been involved in Content Management System development, predominantly Umbraco, which is still the one she runs to.

Programming for over a dozen years, solving performance problems and architectural puzzles in the .NET world, speeding up web applications. Independent consultant, blogger, speaker and fan of Twitter. He also shares his passion as a trainer at Bottega IT Solutions in the area of .NET, especialy about application performance and diagnostics. Founder of the Warsaw Web Performance group. Microsoft MVP in the Visual Studio and Development Tools category. Co-founder of dotnetos.org initiative.

Ismail Mayat is a Senior Web Developer at The Cogworks. Writing code since 1997 and working with content management tools since 2004. Ismail has been working more specifically with Umbraco the leading opensource .net CMS since 2005. The new feather in his cap is as an Umbraco trainer, including writing and delivering the new Umbraco Examine search course based on Lucene.net. His new area of interest is Blockchain Dapp development on Ethereum.

Good news! You don’t have to miss out on your weekly #umbraCoffee fix! We are bringing it directly to you, live from Umbraco PL Festival's stage.

In this session Sebastiaan will will challenge you to actively participate in the Umbraco project through the magic land that is called GitHub. You too can contribute and you don’t need anything else than your brain.

Disclaimer: this session contains some of the best 80s songs in existence 🎵, if you’re allergic you would be well advised to bring ear plugs. Strobe lights will NOT be used for visual effects, in fact there will be a lack of visual effects as Sebastiaan is not very good with powerpoint transitions 🙈.

Sören is both head of development as well as one of byte5 project managers. When times get hard, he keeps his cool!

Lukas has been supporting byte5 since August 2016 and he's an amazing ASP.NET developer and Umbraco genius.

Topics: Open Source/Community Contributions, E-Commerce, Business/Agency Growth with Umbraco