Cohort 2 Introductions

Hello! :smiley:

  • I’m Berto (@bertocq everywhere)

  • From Asturias (Spain)

  • Work remotely for Madrid’s City Council maintaining Consul Project a FOSS for Citizen Participation and Open Government written with Ruby on Rails, that they created to run decide.madrid.es

  • Love to code in Ruby, it’s ecosystem and community.

  • Co-organized last ConferenciaRoR at Madrid, and also volunteered at Madrid’s local Ruby meetup MadridRB

  • Enjoy road & mtb cycling, drinking mate, eating cachopo, and making home cider.

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Hi everyone,

I’m Rod Elias, 34 years old, and I’ve heard about this on the Full Stack Radio podcast.

  • I’m from Brazil

  • My main programming language is PHP.

Ben is awesome and I’ve always appreciated his works.

I’m looking forward to learning new things.

Nice to meet you all.

Hi! :wave:

  • I’m Tim
  • I work at Red Hat on the Cloudforms team, mainly working on ManageIQ, a fairly large and old Ruby on Rails app that happens to be Open Source
  • I get paid for writing Ruby, but enjoy working with Clojure in my free time

Hi

  • Rafael here (http://github.com/cored)
  • I work as a software engineer for Casper - the matress company
  • I mostly do Rails however I spent last year working with Go exclusively and I’m still interested in the language. Recently I started to learn Elixir and SML and found functional programming as fun as when I started with Ruby.
  • Hope to learn a lot from this community of craftsmen :slight_smile:
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Hi folks!

  • I’m Cole
  • I work at Agrian in Fresno, CA - we make software for agribusinesses
  • My toolset is mainly Ruby, Ember.js, PostgreSQL
  • I’m looking forward to learning some new things and meeting the community here
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Hey everyone! I am Frank.

It looks like we have an awesome group of people in this cohort. I wanted to join the first cohort but didn’t have enough free time so here I am.

I run Quiz And Survey Master, an open source WordPress plugin. I am looking forward to improving my code’s quality to help other developers contribute to the plugin easier.

I am primarily PHP/JS based though I do maintain some small python projects.

Hi all, I’m Tim Abell

  • 17 years and counting on the Microsoft stack, emphasis on back-end (C# / ASPNET MVC / SQL (allcaps because ENTERPRISE))
  • Sidelines in open-source & Linux for years
  • Working on a new side-project in GoLang: http://schemaexplorer.io/ (looking for early adopters right now)
  • I’m Kevin Jalbert
  • Living in Toronto, Canada.
  • Working for theScore as a Team Lead
  • Using Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React
  • Missed out on the 1st cohort, so glad to be in this one

Hello everybody!

  • I’m Aaron (@aarondolson)
  • I live in Minnesota
  • I write mostly in JS and PHP
  • Co-founder of a data security services company
  • I’m focused on eCommerce, helping those who either need to automate payments or start selling online for the first time
  • Working on my first SaaS product and will be documenting the process - https://trialbyaaron.com

Hello!

  • I’m Troy.
  • I work on internal tools for a digital marketing agency in Raleigh, NC.
  • Most of my past work has been with Ruby on Rails, but a lot of our current work uses Node. When possible, I write Elixir.
  • Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with spacemacs and learning Org mode

Hey, I’m James. I live in Calgary and am just learning to program using ruby & rails. My wife and I are also having a baby today!

I hope we learn some awesome stuff.

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Hey folks! Excited to get started.

  • I’m Alex (@ADotMartin)
  • I live in Greenville, SC
  • I work as an engineer with Grace Hill, a video training company.
  • Professionally I’m primarily a Ruby dev. Personally, I :heart: Go. Side & past projects include a bit of most of other languages.
  • I’m also an autopsy tech on the side.
  • Hoping to use some easy wins here to build a refactor prioritization program for our team!

Love the gray and pink color scheme :smiley: :+1:

Hi, great to meet you all :smile:

  • I’m Gio.
  • I do iOS development, with a focus on testing and automation. I’m trying to learn more about Haskell and Elm, but my 1 y/o keeps me quite busy.
  • I live in Melbourne, Australia.
  • I’m working as the iOS lead at iflix, before that I’ve been consulting, and I plan to get back on it at some point.
  • I blog at mokacoding.com, and you can find me as @mokagio on Twitter, GitHub, etc.

Hi all!

  • My name is Allison
  • I’m a software developer and the director of employee experience at Collective Idea.
  • I live in the Washington, DC area
  • I work mostly with ruby and rails with some javascript.
  • and I blog about things.

I’m looking forward to the challenges!

Hi guys

I’m Sean

  • I’m a fullstack JavaScript developer, working with Meteor.js + React.js + React Native
  • I live in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • I build bespoke web applications for businesses to solve problems for them
  • I have written some tutorials for Meteor/React here

Hi!
I’m Luca
I work as Freelance Fullstack developer with many agency,
I love use Laravel in my PHP app, and i love design image with CSS
I live near Lodi in Italy
I’m coaching basketball

I love keep learning new stuff!

Hi

  • I’m Joni
  • I’ve been ruby/rails dev almost 4 years (started programming career in 2008)
  • Living in Helsinki
  • Started as a contractor/freelancer ~month ago
  • I write a blog every now and then
  • You can find me on internet either as hasanen or jonihasanen

Hi!

I’m Joy

  • I work as a consultant ant innoQ
  • I write mainly Java programs, but I do Clojure in my free time.
  • One of my main hobbies is Sketchnoting
  • I am also a host for the CaSE Podcast
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Hi everyone,

  • I’m Mickael Palma
  • I’m in charge of JSON APIs for a French company called Argus (https://developer.largus.fr, Edmunds-like).
  • I live near Paris (Enghien-les-Bains)
  • I mainly write Ruby (full stack) and sometimes EmberJS.
  • I love refactoring and best practices
  • I love to keep things simple

Looking forward to the challenge!