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. [...]
Who is Mads Hartmann Jensen? I’m a 21 year old student at the IT university of Copenhagen (ITU) where I’m currently getting my Bachelors degree in Software Development. I work as a front-end developer at Robocat and a software developer at 41Concepts where I work on a commercial Lift based web application.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 Chouser? I’m a father, husband, follower of Christ, and programming enthusiast. Some people call me Chris Houser. Where and when did you start programming? My brother bought a TI-99/4A home computer when I was about 5 or 6, and within a year I was writing simple BASIC programs made up mostly of PRINT [...]
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 Daniel Spiewak? Vell, Daniel’s just zis guy, you know?
Who is Alex Popescu? I am a software engineer/architect/code hacker and co-founder of InfoQ. I’m also running the myNoSQL blog which is focusing on all things NoSQL.
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 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 [...]
Who is Steve Jenson? A programmer living in San Francisco, CA. I write software in Scala and Ruby at Twitter, Inc where I work on the Infrastructure team.
Who is Debasish Ghosh? I am the CTO of Anshinsoft Corp, though I would like to call myself a technology evangelist, a hacker and a programmer at heart. I love programming and, if it were a socially acceptable norm, I would like to do only that and nothing else in my day job. I have [...]
Who is Viktor Klang? I’m a senior systems analyst at Yves Rocher during the day, where i do Java development, system architecture, project management and other Swiss-army-knife duties, and at night I wear a colorful spandex outfit and fight crime… and contribute code, thoughts and time to the Akka project as well as the Atmosphere [...]
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 Derek Chen-Becker? I’m a code craftsman and proud father of two highly energetic little boys. My job title is actually Senior Network Engineer/Security Architect, but I work in a small IT shop and I do just about everything from software development to server administration on top of my networking duties. Probably about two [...]
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 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.
