Kent Beck
Software engineer and creator of Extreme Programming (XP), influential in Agile software development
Past Speakers
Meet the amazing individuals who have spoken at CUSEC throughout the years.
Legends
Most recognizable names and most influential figures who spoke at CUSEC.
Richard Stallman
Founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Movement
Joel Spolsky
Software developer, writer, and co-founder of Stack Overflow and Trello
Jeff Atwood
Co-founder of Stack Overflow and programming blogger behind Coding Horror
Alexis Ohanian
Entrepreneur and co-founder of Reddit
David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner/CTO of Basecamp
Douglas Crockford
Computer programmer best known for popularizing JSON
Bruce Schneier
Cybersecurity expert, cryptographer, and security author
Bret Victor
Interface designer and computer scientist known for interactive computing concepts
Joelle Pineau
AI researcher, professor at McGill University, and former Meta AI leader
Julia Evans
Software engineer and educator known for approachable programming zines and systems content
Kathy Sierra
Programming educator and co-creator of the Head First book series
Sandi Metz
Software architect and author known for object-oriented design and Ruby expertise
Caitlin Kelleher
Professor at Washington University, creator of Storytelling Alice and Looking Glass
Leah Culver
Software developer and co-creator of Pownce, Convore, and Grove.io
Lyn Chen
Award-winning product designer and engineering leader
Michelle Zatlyn
Co-founder & Head of User Experience of CloudFlare, web performance and security company
Camille Fournier
CTO of Rent the Runway and former VP at Goldman Sachs, Apache ZooKeeper committer
Eva Galperin
Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Founder and CEO of CareerCup.com, author of Cracking the Coding Interview
Laurie Hendren
Professor at McGill University, ACM Fellow, Canada Research Chair in Compiler Tools
Marsha Chechik
Professor at University of Toronto, known for formal methods and software verification