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 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 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 Bryan Veloso? I used to call myself a designer. I don’t know how applicable that is anymore. I’ve also tried to call myself a developer but my current skills say otherwise. I don’t even know if I’m really a Filipino. What I do know though is that I love to enjoy my days [...]
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 Eric Florenzano? I’m a developer and a new entrepreneur. I was interested in Django early in its lifetime, and became an outspoken enthusiast for it–creating screencasts, tutorials, and reusable applications for it. As the sites that I worked on got larger, my focus shifted to scalability in general, and then to databases, and [...]
Who is Ivo Wetzel? I’m a 23 year old web developer based in Hesse, Germany. I’m self taught and I love coding (), cats as well as Cheesecake. Aside from that, there’s nothing that’s particular special about me.
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 [...]
Who is Stephan Schmidt? I’m head of development at brands4friends, a shopping club or flash ecommerce site. We sell mainly clothes for reduced prices and a limited time, like a summer sale every day. Beside that I’m a programmer, blogger and speaker at conferences.
Who is Robey Pointer? An infrastructure engineer at Twitter (@robey). Recently, I’ve been on the FlockDB & Gizzard teams there, and in the past I’ve done things like kestrel, paramiko, and eggdrop. I live in the Mission district of San Francisco, where I like to hang out at the local whiskey bars, but I grew [...]
Who is Koen Bok? A 27 year-old guy from Amsterdam who co-founded Sofa, a software company that likes to build great interaction on the Mac and the web.
Who’s Leah? I’m a hacker and lover of beautiful websites. I’m also a blogger and a silly person.
