NINE BRAINS - Key Persons


Adrienne Braganza Tacke

Job Titles:
  • Filipina Software Engineer, International
Adrienne Braganza Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, international speaker, and published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python. She is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Azure and Cloud Development courses. Currently, she is a Senior Developer Advocate for MongoDB where she happily educates and empowers developers to become great ones (perhaps using MongoDB in the process). She takes great delight in solving complex problems, creating awesome things, and using the right tools for the problem at hand. Most of all, she relishes the opportunity to connect with developers from around the world.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Agile
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email or on twitter at @venkat_s.

Giuseppe de Simone

Job Titles:
  • Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Team Coach
Giuseppe is a Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Team Coach who is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organizations become more productive by embracing Agile values principles and practices…

Joel Lord

Joel Lord is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe…

Kevlin Henney

Job Titles:
  • Independent Consultant
Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in the code and the culture of software development. Kevlin is in demand as a conference keynote speaker and workshop host on topics ranging from unit testing to software architecture.

Lasse Ziegler

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Consultant
  • Trainer
Lasse Ziegler is an agile and lean consultant, trainer and coach. He has over 10 years of experience in complex and difficult software development project and software product development.

Regina Martins

Regina aims for continuous improvement in her personal and professional lives and her daily mantra is to be a better version of herself each and every day. She is an Agile coach, trainer and facilitator, and…

Rob Richardson

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He's a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development.

Tore Nestenius

Job Titles:
  • Independent Software Consultant and Trainer
Tore Nestenius is an independent software consultant and trainer based in Helsingborg, Sweden. He has many years of experience helping companies to develop better software. And he does that by solving problems, educating and inspiring teams all around the world.

Wei-Meng Lee

Job Titles:
  • Technologist and Founder of Developer Learning Solutions
Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (learn2develop.net), a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest mobile technologies. Wei-Meng has many years of training experiences and his training courses place special emphasis on the learning-by-doing approach. His hands-on approach to learning programming makes understanding the subject much easier than reading books, tutorials, and documentations. His name regularly appears in online and print publications such as DevX.com, MobiForge.com, and CoDe Magazine. Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (http://learn2develop.net), a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest mobile technologies…

Wolfgang Ofner

Job Titles:
  • Microsoft Certified Trainer
Wolfgang Ofner is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and works as a Freelance Software Architect for Azure, DevOps, and .NET solutions. He is passionate about software architecture, Kubernetes, cloud technologies, and DevOps and shares his knowledge at conferences and meetups around the globe.