Denise is a software engineer at Pivotal Cloud Foundry based in Toronto, currently working on BOSH, an open source tool for release engineering and workload orchestration. Before career-switching into tech, she studied social policy, economics, and philosophy. She speaks regularly at conferences in Europe and North America on subjects ranging from continuous delivery to functional programming to scaling company culture. She uses sketchnoting as a way for spreading knowledge about technical subject matter and advocating for best practices in software and organisational culture. All of her work is Creative Commons licensed and freely accessible at deniseyu.io/art!

Brandon is an artist turned programmer, working at Square as a Platform Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He works with Ruby, Rails, and EmberJS. He teaches programming courses and gives talks in the community, and has a love for lemurs and Ruby.

Jessica Miller is a Graphic Designer based in San Francisco offering creative direction, branding, identity, product design, UX/UI, visual design, and information design. She partners with clients focused on cultural production, technology innovation, sustainability, and design for good.

Omayeli is an artist and technologist from Nigeria currently based in San Francisco. She currently works at LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. She’s interested in the intersection of technology, art and activism. Her work outside of work aims to use writing, data, code and satire as tools to foster disillusionment with our current realities. She’s an alum of Code2040, the School of Poetic Computation and the Recurse Center.

Chris has always heard the tantalising siren song to furiously self-document, which along with the devastating habits of asking many questions, finding nearly everything fascinating, and going many places has led to a trail of relatable content in the forms of comic journals, travel and nature sketchbooks, and abandoned writing projects leading to sketchnotes and zines at the intersection of art & tech, and whatever else made more fun by sharing in bite-sized, unpolished, whimsical ways.

Christa is a software engineer currently working to improve the social safety net at Code for America. She is also one of the founders of Logic Magazine, a print magazine that seeks to deepen the discourse around technology.

Rachel chronically self-documents to relieve the strain of the copiously over-engineered inner thought processes that bubble forth every time she falls into intense love affairs with new hobbies (which is most of the time). She once covered every kitchen cabinet in pictographic signage after being over-empowered by a vinyl cutter, and turns anything she has to do thrice into a macro, whether analog or digital. Wanted to be an astrophysicist as a kid before getting deeply distracted by robotics engineering during puberty, then studied computer science at MIT.

Bridget Watson Payne is a writer, artist, and art book editor. She is the founder of Open Studio, a shared work, learning, and retail space in San Francisco. With over fifteen years of experience in the publishing industry, she has collaborated as an editor with hundreds of authors and artists to make their book ideas a beautiful reality. She serves on the board of Bay Area Women in Publishing, is a Senior Mentor for Representation Matters, and helps facilitate Chronicle Books’ Diversity and Inclusion Group.  Bridget is currently at work on three new books, to be released in 2019.She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.

In her work life, Jennifer Tu writes code and listens very intently to people. She co-founded Cohere to continue to pursue these two interests. Jennifer loves sharing with others how easy it is to get started sketchnoting. After her workshop, you too can walk up to a conference speaker you admire and say "Hi, I made this of your talk!" and bask in their appreciation.

Betsy is CTO at Cohere, where she helps clients make sense of their architecture and guides dev teams towards better software. But! did! you! know! this is not her first career -- prior to making websites beautiful and functional, she did the same thing for stages. Theater production stages. At Let's Sketch Tech, instead of her usual shedding light on software, she'll be shedding light on light itself (and all the colors therein).