Member introductions

Introductions
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Hello, I’m Brendan

  • I’m a developer at a healthcare startup called wellbe.
  • I live near Madison, WI
  • I write primarily Ruby at work, but I’ve been getting into Elixir on the side.
42

Hello!

My name is Nick
I work at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and volunteer for Cincinnati Ultimate Players Association
I live in Cincinnati as well
I write Python (Django), PHP (Laravel), and Javascript (Ember.js) applications to help the researchers at the hospital get their job done. I also lead a team to wrangle all the Genomics data at the hospital.

43

Yo!

  • I’m Bruno Silveira
  • I work at MONOQI
  • I’m from Brazil but just moved (two months ago) to Berlin
  • I work with Ruby/Rails
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44

Hello!

  • I’m Michael.
  • I live in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
  • I write Ruby code that manages a WordPress hosting company (yes, you read that right!)
  • I’m also interested in both Elixir and Rust.

I’m really looking forward to this!

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  • I’m Olle from sunny Malmö, in Sweden
  • I work with Ruby and JavaScript, and I play with OCaml, Elixir, Rust, Haskell
  • I just restarted our local Ruby community, Malmö Ruby Brigade
  • I visit nearby Copenhagen’s more active Copenhagen Ruby Brigade
  • I’ve accepted becoming a co-maintainer for a few RubyGems, lately, and met some nice people that way. People are friendly.

Thank you, other members, and Ben, for all doing this. It’ll be exciting!

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46

Hello,

Thanks for putting this together Ben; I’m looking forward to getting started :grinning:

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47

Hello, all! Let’s see…where do I begin?

  • I’m Neil
  • Living in Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Working full time remotely for Valley Agricultural Software
  • Currently working in C#/.NET, but experienced in JavaScript (Node, Angular) and Python
48

Hello!

  • I’m Alex
  • I’m from São Paulo, Brazil
  • Work as developer since 1998, the last 7 with Ruby
  • Playing with Vue and React currently
  • I work for ESPM
49
  • I’m Chris
  • From Menlo Park, California
  • I’m an engineering manager at a startup in Santa Clara, California
  • I’ve been using Rails for the past 5 years, but recently I’ve been using Python/Django.
50

Hello!

  • I’m Mitchell Hanberg
  • I work at SEP
  • I live in Indianapolis, IN
  • I’ve worked professionally on a variety of web development tech in the past couple years,(.NET ASP, Rails, nodejs, angularjs, react, backbone) and am currently exploring elixir and the phoenix web framework.
51

Hi All,

  • I’m James Cowlishaw, from Sheffield, UK.
  • I’m a rails developer for Love to Ride, which aims to get more people out cycling.
  • I have a (Rails 3!) side project CorrectedTime which calculates and publishes race results for dinghy sailing.
  • I’d like to find the time to try Elm and Elixir.
52

Hi there!

  • My name is Phil Dodd
  • I live and work in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia
  • I work for Whooshkaa
  • We use PHP, NodeJS and VueJS.
  • I like to fiddle around with elm and elixir in my spare time.
53

Hi!

  • :wave: I’m Etienne
  • :lock_with_ink_pen: I work at a Cryptosense, a startup where we rate cryptography in applications
  • :fr: I live in Paris
  • :camel: I’m mostly working with OCaml, but I’m also taking care of a web application that uses Python and Flask.
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54

Hey there!

  • I’m Patrik.
  • I am the only developer at Memberful.
  • I work remotely from Slovakia (Europe) for 3+ years.
  • I mainly write Ruby, some JavaScript, I love SJR.
  • Check out some of my blog posts on Patrik on Rails.
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55

Hey!

  • I’m Casey
  • I live in Milwaukee, WI
  • I write C# and TypeScript for work, but I dabble in a bit of everything on the side.

Looking forward to starting this challenge!

56

Hi everyone,

  • I’m Simon from the UK.
  • Mostly use Laravel and Vue to maintain a series of tools and intranet sites.
  • Looking forward to learning some things as I apply the tasks to the code base of a side project I’m working on.
57

Hey all!

My intro:

  • I’m Ernesto
  • I’m the founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development shop
  • I live in Philadelphia
  • I mainly write Ruby and some Javascript

I’m excited about this challenge! :slight_smile:

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58

Hi there,

  • I’m Lisa
  • I live in the Washington, DC US area
  • I work for DockYard
  • I am currently using mostly JavaScript (Ember), but have dabbled in Elixir, and my roots go back into PHP, Database Architecture, Java, etc.
  • As a self-taught programmer, I’m always on the lookout for ways to make myself a more complete and pragmatic programmer
59

Hi

  • I’m Dustin from Jacksonville, Arkansas
  • Normally use C/C++ though I have dabbled in many others.

looking forward to working on my engine and some other small code bases during this challenge.

60

My name is Antonio

  • I started contracting, worked for a couple startups, now working on a personal project. (niche is skateboarding)
  • I live in the suburbs of Chicago. Originally from upstate NY.
  • Really enjoy getting work done in different environments. It is really odd because you are starring at the computer screen anyway, but switching up the environment helps me focus tremendously.
  • Autodidact