Julia is a Global Black Belt for Developer Productivity at Microsoft, specializing in accelerating developer productivity in large-scale organizations through comprehensive and pragmatic platform engineering solutions. With extensive experience as a Software Engineer, Development Lead, and Cloud Solution Architect, she understands the challenges and needs of developers and effectively translates them to management, security, and operations. Julia excels at solving complex problems and always keeps the big picture in mind. Web & Frontend development have a special place in her ❤️.

In her free time, she enjoys gaming, is a beginner triathlete, and once played as a quarterback on a women’s American football team.

April is a senior cloud developer advocate and the DevOps practice lead at GitHub, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers plan their journey.
 
In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons.