Franz is a member of a team developing foundational Swift libraries at Apple primarily focused on networking and concurrency. Franz is also a member of the Ecosystem Steering and Server Working Group which are part of the Swift project. Before joining Apple, Franz spent a decade working in the mobile applications space.

Hugh Neale is a senior technology executive and cybersecurity expert with over 15 years’ experience building secure, scalable systems in startups, government, and financial services. He's had several exits and is working on Thand. An Open-source distributed agent for privilege access management (PAM).

Andrew is the Data Infrastructure Tech Lead at Affirm, architecting the batch and streaming platforms that power ML, Marketing, Billing, Capital, Ledger, and many other critical applications handling Money Movement and the entirety of the loan and customer lifecycle. A passionate advocate for functional programming and distributed systems, he previously built Search and ML-driven Data Quality systems.

Alan is a Senior Software Engineer on Affirm's Batch Infrastructure platform team, responsible for building and operating the data frameworks that run critical ML and financial pipelines at scale. More recently, Alan led the development and launch of Affirm's Temporal platform which unlocked better system reliability, execution safety, and accelerated developer workflows across core systems like Checkout, Comms, Infra Orchestration, ML and more.