Syed Usman Ahmad
Jacob Beers
Michael Hnat
Kai Koenig
Srikanth Madishetti
Gianluca Roth
Grant Shepert
David Tattersall
Brad Wood
Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.
He has over 15 years of experience in the Tech Industry where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.
He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events. Also, he is the owner of the FreeLinuxTutorials YouTube channel where he shares educational content around Linux and Open Source Tools.
In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.
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https://grafana.com/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/
Jacob is a Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions, Corp. While he has been working as a programmer for the past 10 years he never intended to make a career out of it. His professional journey thus far has been marked by a diverse set of pursuits including 3d animation, game design, fine art, special education, and operating a survival swim school. He likes to think his unusual combination of experiences provides him with a unique and pragmatic approach to software development.
Michael is developing CFML application for more than 20 years and installed his first ColdFusion Server (4.0) from floppy discs (can be seen in several museums). He developed applications for several customers using different Framworks and techniques.
He has been organizing the CFCamp for 12 years meanwhile.
In his free time he's playing ice hockey and golf.
Kai is one of the co-founders of and works as Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative Ltd in Wellington, New Zealand.
Kai got his first computer in 1985 and hasn’t stopped building things with technology since then.
As a software architect he works with a variety of clients to help them leverage technology to achieve their business visions and goals. He specialises in JVM-based technologies (like Java, Kotlin, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo and Lucee) and mobile application development with Android and Flutter.
Other areas of Kai’s interest are delivering education online, improving development teams’ performance through continuous integration and build processes, data science and machine learning technologies.
Kai regularly speaks at international conferences like Droidcon Berlin, Mobile Refresh Wellington, CF Camp in Germany, Android Makers in France and many others.
Srikanth Madishetti is an Engineering Head at BackAtYou Inc (USA) with over 22 years of experience designing and building large-scale, production-grade software systems. He has worked extensively with ColdFusion, ColdBox, and Lucee, delivering long-living applications in enterprise environments across multiple domains.
He is an ex-Adobe engineer and an active contributor to the CFML community, having delivered numerous technical talks at community forums and international conferences. His recent conference work has focused on practical AI adoption in CFML applications. In 2024, he presented a session on ChatGPT integration with Lucee, showcasing an open source library for chat assistance and content completion. At CFCAMP 2025, he presented a session on AI-driven content moderation and demonstrated another open source library used in real-world systems.
Having explored AI at the feature and integration level in previous talks, Srikanth now focuses on AI from an architectural and system design perspective. His work emphasizes safe, asynchronous, and event-driven AI integration using ColdBox features such as Custom Interception Points and asyncManager, ensuring AI enhances systems without compromising stability or determinism.
Beyond AI, Srikanth has deep experience in CF security, performance, and best practices. He has delivered talks on OWASP security in CFML, ColdFusion best practices, and modern CF coding standards. He has earned Guru and Masters certifications on Experts Exchange for his contributions to Lucee and CFML, based on his published articles and solutions. He is also the author of the book Manage Your Energy, Not Time, available on Amazon.
Srikanth has worked on CFML projects across India, Malaysia, the UK, the US, Cyprus, and Australia, bringing a global, production-focused perspective to his work. He is passionate about sharing practical knowledge that helps teams build resilient, maintainable systems that scale.
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https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/srikanthmadishetti.html?cid=2035
I work as an AI Process Specialist at a major automotive manufacturer in Munich and am the founder of the Roth AI-Teaching Academy. In my daily work, I focus on integrating large language models, AI agents, and automation solutions into existing business processes and software landscapes. My focus is on the technical implementation of AI-powered workflows, the optimization of system architectures, and how applications can be prepared for a future with AI interfaces and agent-based systems.
In addition to my work in the industry, I give lectures and workshops on topics such as Generative AI, LLM integration, semantic web structures, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). I regularly collaborate with developers, architects, and technical teams to design existing web and backend systems so that they can be better understood, processed, and utilized by modern AI systems.
My focus is on practical, technical approaches to integrating AI into real-world applications — from structured data and API design to retrieval systems, AI agents, and new forms of search.
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https://www.ai-teaching-academy.com/
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gianluca-roth-ai-teaching-academy
I have been a full stack developer for over 30 years, long enough that "html has images now!" was a moment for me. In the years since ColdFusion 1.5 and having survived 3.1, I have expanded my toolset to include a multitude of industry evolutions (ah those love/hate/disable/love JS years) programming languages like NextJS and React, honed my processes through hard-earned experiences, and yet always CFML has remained dear to my heart.
David Tattersall is the CEO and co-founder of Intergral and OpenTrace - a long-time entrepreneur in the observability and monitoring space. Intergral is the company behind FusionReactor, the most widely used performance monitoring solution for ColdFusion. With over 40 years of IT experience and 20 years helping teams understand and improve application performance, David is now focused on the next evolution of observability - combining telemetry, AI, and automation to help engineering teams move from reactive monitoring toward autonomous operations.
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https://fusion-reactor.com/
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https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fusionreactor/
Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions, lead developer of the CommandBox CLI, and Senior Architect of BoxLang.
