Timo Salm is based out of Stuttgart in southwest Germany and in the role of the first VMware Tanzu Solutions Engineer for Developer Experience in EMEA with a focus on VMware Tanzu Application Platform and commercial Spring products. In this role, he’s responsible for educating customers on the value, vision, and strategy of these products, and ensuring that they succeed by working closely on different levels of abstractions of modern applications and modern infrastructure. Before Timo joined Pivotal and VMware, he worked for more than seven years for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer on projects for customer-facing products.

Nele Uhlemann is a Developer Advocate at Camunda. Her passion is helping the open source community use and understand Camunda’s technologies and build a bridge between multiple stakeholders that are involved when building Software. Before, Nele worked as a consultant at Camunda, leading workshops with developers and other stakeholders (It-architects, business domains, etc.). She is a process nerd and loves to leverage the full potential of the executable modeling language BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) to make the life of Software Developers easier and to gain more transparency in Software Development.