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"bio": "Kathy writes and edits docs about Dart and related technologies. Before Google, she worked at Sun, NeXT, and HP. Long ago, Kathy co-created and maintained The Java Tutorial.",
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"bio": "Stephen is a Developer Advocate working on the Angular team. Before joining Google, he was a Google Expert. Stephen loves to help enterprises use technology more effectively.",
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"bio": "Max Sills is Angular's Open Source lawyer.",
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"bio": "Marc is a manager at Amadeus where he leads the team in charge of developing and recommending UI frameworks for the company. He is also an open source developer and a contributor to Angular 2.",
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"bio": "Also know as PatrickJS where JS stands for his middle and last names. Patrick is very active in Open-Source with over 4,300+ contributions in the last year alone on projects such as Angular2, AngularJS, FalcorJS, Docker, Bootstrap, gulp, and redis to name a few. He is also working on the development of Angular 2 server-side rendering as Universal Angular 2 and teaching Modern Web Development at AngularClass. He was previously the CTO of Keychain Logistics, a HackReactor Instructor and Alum.",
"bio": "Pascal is a front-end engineer, trainer and Google Developer Expert for Angular with a love for semantic markup and evolving technologies in the open web. He loves contributing to open source and is the creator of the popular angular-translate module. Pascal loves to travel the world and speaks at conferences and meetups. When he's not busy preparing the next workshop or conference talk, you might find him outside with his skateboard.",
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"bio": "Torgeir (Tor) is a front-end architect with a passion for JavaScript development. He is also an author for angular.io and an active tech blogger.",
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