The Geek Talk

GEEKOUTn. The act of engaging in intense and excited conversation over a highly technical topic or otherwise geeky subject. The term alludes to the intimacy of a makeout session, wherein the participants relish in one another’s expertise in the subject. In 2011 we felt the need to start a conference, highly technical but not forgetting [...]

Who is Loren Brichter? I make software for iOS and Mac. I used to work for Apple, then started a company called atebits and made an app called Tweetie. Twitter bought it and turned it into Twitter for iPhone. Now I’m back on my own working on some fun new ideas.

Who is Avdi Grimm? I am a bipedal, long-haired mammal residing near York, Pennsylvania, USA. I’m a husband, father, and cat cushion. I write software, write and speak about writing software, host podcasts, and consume dangerous amounts of coffee.

Who is Tom Daly? I’m one of the founders of Dyn, and over the years worked hard to earn the title of CTO. I’m a technologist who is passionate about performance and optimization of DNS and Email Delivery services, and I happen to have a particular knowledge of how the Internet backbone works at scale. [...]

Who is Jevgeni Kabanov? Creator of JRebel, founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround, husband and a father. What does your typical day look like? Some meetings, some writing, some thinking. My working tools are now Powerpoint, Word and Excel (or their Google Docs analogies) more than anything.  Not to mention Skype. What do you do in [...]

Who is Hilary Mason? I’m the chief scientist at bitly, a co-founder of hackNY, and a bit of a troublemaker. I like data and cheeseburgers. What does your typical day look like? I love my job because my typical day is never typical. I do a mix of math, coding, and working with people across [...]

Who is Josh Abernathy? I live in Seattle with my awesome wife and baby-morphing-into-a-toddler. I work at GitHub, mostly on GitHub for Mac. (If you haven’t checked it out, you totally should. I hear it’s great: http://mac.github.com/)

Who is Jamis Buck? I’m just this guy, you know? ;) I’ve been married (blissfully!) for 14 years now. My wife and I live in Idaho, USA, and we have four kids, ranging in age from 2 to 9. We homeschool, and when you combine that with the fact that I work from home, this [...]

Who is Andrei Zmievski? I’m a web developer and founding member of Analog Coop, living and working in San Francisco. Along with my Analog colleagues, I work on things like Mapalong and Brooklyn Beta. Prior to forming Analog, I was the Open Source Fellow at Digg and a platform engineer at Yahoo. For the past [...]

Who is Christian Neukirchen? Christian Neukirchen (aka chris2) has been programming Ruby since 2001. As lead developer of the abstract webserver interface Rack, he is committed to unifying the Ruby web development landscape.  He also authored several other Ruby libraries, among them the popular BDD frameworks test/spec and bacon. To the Internet community, he is [...]

Who is hij1nx? My given name is Paolo Fragomeni, it’s an Italian name but I’m originally from California. I’m the co-founder and CTO of Nodejitsu, a Platform as a Service cloud technology for Node.js. I’m also a researcher/lecturer at MIT. I’m a transplant from San Francisco to NYC. I love NYC.

Who is Jon Maddox? Just a guy that loves to make stuff. I love software because it lets me execute on an idea at 3am with zero raw materials. I love mobile dev because of the amazing accessibility of data. I live in Richmond, Va with my amazing wife Steph (@stephmaddox) and pug Tater. I’ve [...]

Who is Irina Dumitrascu? I am a geek girl from Romania; I like to program, travel and walk on mountains. In the last year and a half I was lucky to do all of them while visiting South America together with my boyfriend, [Cristi], as semi-nomad freelancers. I am shy, deliberative, and intellectual. If I [...]

Who is Ben Alman? I’m a thirty-something web developer living and working in the Boston area. I work at Bocoup as Director of Training and Pluginization, where I am responsible for the development of beginner and advanced JavaScript, jQuery and HTML5 training curricula. In addition to my training and client work at Bocoup, I write [...]

Who is Pamela Fox? I’m a twenty-something-year-old living in San Francisco. I suppose I would be best described as a web developer, though I’ve never identified as one. I just like making stuff, and coding is my means to that end. I graduated from USC in 2007 with a bachelors and masters in Computer science, [...]

Who is Jonas Nicklas? I’m a Ruby developer and JavaScript enthusiast currently working at Elabs in Gothenburg, Sweden. I emigrated to sunny Sweden from Germany roughly nine years ago and I’m not looking back. In the Ruby community I’m probably best known for being the author of a couple of popular open source libraries, including [...]

Who is Jack Danger Canty? Jack is an overprivileged urban male in Seattle who writes code and loves personal growth of all kinds. Danger is his middle name.

Who is Scott Jehl? I’m a Boston-based web designer. I work at Filament Group and I’m pretty active in the open-source web community. In the past, I’ve enjoyed speaking at conferences such as Voices That Matter, writing for sites such as A List Apart, and I recently co-authored the book Designing with Progressive Enhancement (New [...]

Who Jose Ignacio Costa? I’m a Software Engineer from Montevideo, Uruguay, and Co-Founder of WyeWorks where I office as senior developer, consultant and manager.

Who is Zack Hobson? I am a professional software developer, originally from Los Angeles. I’ve been working in database-backed web applications for most of my career, which has been going on for about 15 years (including a 3-year break after the 2000 tech bubble burst). My current employer ENTP is responsible for the products Lighthouse [...]

Who is Tony Bacigalupo? Co-founder and Mayor of New Work City and NWCU, advisor to Girl Develop It. Karaoke singer.

Who is Konstantin Haase? Well, that’s me. And, according to Google, some doctor. I don’t know much about him, but I am an IT student from Potsdam, Germany, working part time as a Rails developer for Finnlabs and spending a lot of my free time on open source projects.

Who is Erik Michaels-Ober? I’m a software developer and entrepreneur living in San Francisco. You may know me as sferik on IRC, GitHub, or Twitter. I’m currently a Fellow at Code for America. I also hack on a number of open-source software projects, including RailsAdmin, Thor, Faraday, MultiXML, Octokit, the Twitter gem and the recently-kickstarted [...]

Who is Misko Hevery? … works as an Agile Coach at Google where he is responsible for coaching Googlers to maintain the high level of automated testing culture. Previously he worked at Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Xerox (to name a few), where he became an expert in building web applications in web related technologies [...]

Who is Yehuda Katz? I’m not really sure how to answer this. I was born in Minnesota and grew up in Monsey, New York (a suburb of New York City). I went to college at Brooklyn College, where I ran the school newspaper and met my lovely wife Leah (who works with me at Strobe [...]