Back to Basics: Panel

Klaus Iglberger is a freelance C++ trainer and consultant. He has finished his PhD in Computer Science in 2010 and since then is focused on large-scale C++ software design. He shares his expertise in popular advanced C++ courses around the world (mainly in Germany, but also in the rest of the EU and the US). Additionally, he is the initiator and lead designer of the Blaze C++ math library (https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/), one of the organizers of the Munich C++ user group (https://www.meetup.com/MUCplusplus/), and the organizer of the Back-to-Basics track at CppCon.

Mateusz Pusz is a software architect, principal engineer, and security champion with more than 15 years of experience in designing, writing and maintaining C++ code for fun and living. C++ consultant, trainer, conference speaker, and evangelist focused on Modern C++. His main areas of interest and expertise are code performance, low latency, stability, and security.

Mateusz worked at Intel for 13 years, and now he is a Principal Software Engineer and the head of the C++ Competency Center at EPAM Systems. He is also a founder of Train IT that provides dedicated C++ training and consultant services to corporations around the world.

Mateusz is a contributor and an active voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21) where, together with the best C++ experts in the world, he shapes the future of the C++ language. He is also a co-chair of WG21 Study Group 14 (SG14) responsible for driving performance and low latency subjects in the Committee. In 2013 Mateusz won “Bench Games 2013” – worldwide competition in the C++ language knowledge.

Inbal Levi is a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for software design, software development lifecycle, and high performance.
She is a director of the ISO C++ foundation and an active member of the C++ Standards Committee as co-chair of Library Evolution, the chair of SG9 (Ranges group), and the chair of the ISO C++ Israeli NB. Inbal is also an organizer of the CoreCpp conference and user group.

Rainer has worked as a software architect, team lead, and instructor since 1999. In 2002, Rainer created a company-intern meeting for further education and had given training courses since 2002. Rainer's first tutorials were about proprietary management software, but he began teaching Python and C++ soon after. In his spare time, he likes to write articles about C++, Python, and Haskell and speak at conferences. Rainer publishes weekly on his English blog Modernes C++. Since 2016, Rainer has been an independent instructor, giving seminars about modern C++ and Python. Due to his profession, he constantly searches for the best way to teach modern C++. He published several books in various languages about modern C++ in the last ten years, including the last one "C++ Core Guidelines Explained: Best Practices for Modern C++".