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 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 Alex Gaynor? I’m a junior computer science student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I’m a software developer, I do mostly web stuff professionally, but I’m very interested in compilers and interpreters so I contribute to projects like Django and PyPy.
Who is Aaron Patterson? (Please read this in a film noir voice) Aaron Patterson is a man. A man driven slightly mad from being forced to program Java for too many years. He grew up on the streets of Salt Lake City, just a mile past the wrong side of the tracks. A place where [...]
Who is Santiago Pastorino? I’m a member of the Rails core team and co-founder of WyeWorks a Ruby on Rails consultancy shop. You can find me as spastorino on Twitter and Github. I’m an OSS fan and live in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Who is Kris Wallsmith? I’m a self-taught coder who cut my teeth building brochure-ware sites for a few hundred bucks a pop. I’m now active in the open source community, Release Manager for the PHP Symfony Framework, and a Senior Software Engineer at OpenSky.
Who is Ola Bini? Ola Bini is a Swedish developer with a large interest in programming languages. He spends most of his time focusing specifically on languages such as Java, Ruby and his own languages.
Who is José Valim? @josevalim An open source developer, a speaker, a musician and an entrepreneur. I’m co-founder and lead developer at Plataforma Tecnologia – a development and consultancy company focused on Ruby and Rails, based in Brazil – and a Rails Core Team member. I am happily living in Kraków with my wife!
Who is Dion Almaer? I am a Brit who came over to the US for college. I took my American wife back to life in London for a year, and have lived in each of the timezones in the continental US, ending up in silicon valley where I reside now. I grew up playing cricket [...]
Who is Tyler Weir? Husband, Father, Coder, Gym Owner. Looking at all the others interviewed on the site, Tyler is also pleasantly surprised to be included.
Who is Tekkub? I’m a whiny, lazy, hermit of a programmer that lives on a “mountain” in Golden, CO. I run GitHub’s tech support and do some Ruby on Rails programming on the side. I also have a *small* collection of World of Warcraft addons I’ve written over the years. I live with my partner [...]
Who is Peter-Paul Koch? Web developer, browser tester, teacher, explaining the mobile web to the masses, historian, conference speaker and organiser, curator of Quirksmode.
Who is Rick Olson? Part open source programmer, father of one, and comic book fanboy. I live in Portland, OR, and work at GitHub. Before that, I launched two bootstrapped web products as the lead developer.
Who is Chad Fowler? I’m a husband, programmer, musician, learner, teacher, author, (spoken) language enthusiast, recent fitness junkie, and aspiring retiree. I am CTO for InfoEther by day a director for Ruby Central, for which I co-organize the official Ruby and Rails conferences. I also teach for Pragmatic Studio with Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic [...]
Who is Fogus? A programmer in Northern Virginia. I am co-authoring a book entitled The Joy of Clojure with Chris Houser.
Who’s Derek Sivers? Entrepreneur, writer, musician, programmer. People know me most for founding CD Baby, but more recently for my TED talks and articles at sivers.org. I’m a passionate learner and experimenter, driven to understand life better, and share what I learn. I judge myself by how much useful stuff I’ve created.
Who is Daniel Spiewak? Vell, Daniel’s just zis guy, you know?
Who is Pete Brown? I’m a father of two, woodworker, railfan, author, Commodore C64 fan, and a Community Program Manager at Microsoft. In my role at Microsoft, I work on Scott Hanselman’s team with a focus on the WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows, and other “code on the client” developer communities. I try to [...]
Who is Timothy Perrett? I am a technical specialist at a division of Xerox corporation during the day, and a Lift and Akka committer during my spare time. More recently, I became an author and started writing a book on Lift called “Lift in Action” to be released later in 2010. I spend most of [...]
Who is Alex Payne? I’m a software developer, programmer, engineer, or whatever you want to call the thing where you write code all day and dream about code all night and get paid for it. I’ve been programming professionally since I was too young to legally hold a work permit. I love what I do. [...]
Who is Heiko Seeberger? I’m an OSGi expert and Scala enthusiast. While running WeigleWilczek, a small software company, I am still a daily hacker. I am an active open source committer to Lift and Eclipse and creator of the ScalaModules project. Beside of my job I am a dad and a climber, not necessarily in [...]
Who is Anil Wadghule? Anil is 26 year old programmer, hacker. He loves writing programs. Specially likes writing useful plugins, libraries. Over the last few years, he has become programming language obsessive and likes to learn new programming languages. Academically he has done engineering in Computer Science. He works for a software company in Pune.
Who is David Pollak? A dad. A geek by birth. A lawyer by training. I’ve been doing software for pay since 1977 starting on the Apple ][, fell in love with NextStep, then Java, then Ruby/Rails and finally Scala.
Who’s Chris? Chris is a 24 year old programmer living in San Francisco, CA. He works at GitHub, which he co-founded, and likes coffee.
