Kevin Smith
Who is Kevin Smith? Where did you start programming? I got into computers in middle school (home computers as such didn’t really exist before the early 1980′s) when my school got a boatload of Commodore PETs. The computers popped up in every classroom and the library but the teachers never really did anything with them. [...]
Dave Fayram
Who is Dave Fayram? I’m a long time programming hobbyist who just happens to get paid for his work. Unlike some developers that are in it for the challenge of building big systems, I’m in it for the challenge of learning new things. In particular, I’m a total language nerd. Actually, I’m a total nerd [...]
Mathias Meyer
Who is Mathias Meyer? A dabbler, a generalist, a jack of all trades, a master of none, a verbose tweeter the Switzerland of NoSQL, but most importantly, he’s working at a small company called Peritor in Berlin, Germany, where he makes the clouds and infrastructure do his bidding, spending most of his time working on [...]
Sean Cribbs
Who is Sean Cribbs? I’m a developer and music geek. I maintained and directed Radiant CMS for just over two years, and I’m currently the author and maintainer of Ripple, a collection of gems that help you connect your Rails 3 applications to Riak, a distributed key-value store product that is made by my employer, [...]
Tony Arcieri
Who is Tony Arcieri? Who am I? There’s not really one distinct subculture I fit into. I’m something of a goth hippie nerd. While musically I tend to be the exact opposite of a hipster, getting into bands long after they’re popular. But technologically I’m a total hipster, always looking for the latest trends and [...]
Ilya Grigorik
Who is Ilya Grigorik? I am a tinkerer, an entrepreneur, a software developer and a blogger – roughly in that order. I am currently the founder and CTO of PostRank (postrank.com), which is where all of the above job descriptions, as well as many others, come to occupy all of my time. Formally, I have [...]
Sergio Bossa
Who is Sergio Bossa? I’m a software developer, sometimes hands-on architect too, with a true passion for clean, elegant and efficient code and architectures, who likes being constantly challenged, learn new things and share them with peers. That’s probably the reason that I love open source (and open communities) so much: open source is the [...]




