Courtney Hemphill is a Partner and Technical Lead at Carbon Five, a strategic digital product development firm. She has been developing software since 1999, first at an early stage e-commerce startup that became Art.com  and eventually moving into consulting. In her role at Carbon Five, she has built ground up HIPAA-compliant platforms for health care companies, a server cluster analysis and forecasting platform, and supported enterprise executives transitioning to cloud based continuous delivery. 

Courtney frequently speaks at conferences globally, focusing on technical solutions for web scale technology and organizational team dynamics. She is a mentor at TechStars and SAP.io , an advisor to several startups, a co-chair on the QCon programming committee, and organizes training workshops for women developers. She also sits on the Board of NatureBridge/Golden Gate, and is constantly finding random new corners of the world to rock climb.