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Suraj Rai is interested in learning and making new things for people. Professionally, he is a product manager focused on creating understandable and actionable insights for people on planetscale data. He is a trustee and board member for the Foundation for Integrated Transport, through which he supports transformational grant making and impact investment into sustainable transport solutions within the UK. Suraj is happiest working in teams looking to solve large problems for people, organizations or machines. He aims to create the best outcomes combining design, technology and data. He is open to talking through ideas and problems.

Richard Audette is a computing generalist based in Toronto, Canada. He is a husband and parent of two teens. He posts about things he builds, mostly small embedded computing or web projects, and a little bit about cybersecurity and work on his website, Hotel Existence. He can be found on Github, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and YouTube. He has been interviewed on the podcast, The Inquisitive Analyst, twice, once in 2021 about his career experience in FinTech and again in 2024 about maximizing productivity with limited resources.

Muhammad Usman is a software engineer focused on the UI and UX of building web products. He is currently working at Instrumentl.

Jason is a bookworm, dad, and software developer. He has a love/hate relationship with technology. He is excited about alternative approaches to children’s education and immersing his kids (and himself) in nature. Jason enjoys the outdoors, uses strange keyboards, and reads a lot. He creates things, both on computers and in the physical world. He also enjoys cooking and baking.

Jerry is a software engineer. He enjoys building things with code and is interested in web development, infrastructure, and developer tooling. He likes working on projects that have a positive impact on people's lives. He is currently learning more about distributed systems and cloud computing. He also enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time with friends and family.

The author of Scribbles in the Dark uses this space to write rants, reflections, and tangled messes of words. Their blog has no theme, consistency, or guarantee of coherence. They write about a variety of topics, including modern politics, vintage craftsmanship, love, loneliness, technology, education, and society. The author does not expect agreement or even an audience, as this blog is primarily for themself. They welcome readers to scream into the void with them.

Sudipta Chatterjee is a Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Rhombus. He bridges the gap between the business/customer and the engineering teams. His previous role was a Senior Solutions Engineer at Google, where he worked on Search Social Impact, focusing on Sustainability and Mental Health Crisis Hotlines. He also led an engineering team that built a data platform and mobile app to track recycled plastic in Indonesia. Before Google, he was an Ads Solutions Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) and a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, working on Connected Vehicles. Beyond his tech career, Sudipta is a theater director and actor, and filmmaker. He is a co-founder and board member of the Bay Area Amateur Thespians (BAAT) and maintains the digital presence for Naatak. He is also a dog rescue volunteer, a husband, and a father.

Marvin Baltazar, also known as Marvs, is an engineer with a passion for web development. He works as a web application developer and technical lead. His interests include personal development, personal finance, and software development. He uses his blog, Tech and FI, to record and solidify his thoughts and experiences. He is an eternal student of Stoicism, and his articles reflect this interest.

Franz Balzke is an electrical engineering student. Franz likes noodles in different shapes, cats, video games, and coffee.

Elina Salmela is an Associate Professor in Archaeogenomics at the University of Turku, in both the Department of Biology and Department of Archaeology. She is also a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her research focuses on the genetic population history of Finland and nearby regions. As part of the Human Diversity research consortium of University of Turku, her group analyzes DNA sequence data of modern and ancient individuals to produce insight into population history events such as migrations, population contacts and admixtures. Furthermore, they study individuals’ ancestry, relatedness and genetic traits as well as the genomic effects of natural selection. She collaborates with other fields such as archaeology, historical linguistics, and various paleosciences.

Mior is a designer and developer. He is passionate about building experiences that are accessible, inclusive, and human-centered. He enjoys working across the stack, from design to development, to create products that solve real problems. He is currently building things at Shopify.

Rob Sanek writes software that solves problems for people. He spent a decade helping build fintech infrastructure at Stripe and Wealthfront. Currently, he is working on a stealth startup in the AI space. He is based in 🇪🇸 and previously lived in 🇨🇿 and 🇺🇸. Rob has open-source projects on GitHub. He can be contacted via email or on X.

Myriad Leaves is a sedulous writer who explores linguistic matters on myriadleaves.eu. Their blog, "Myriad Leaves," delves into translations of various media, including video games, comics, books, and films, from and to Japanese and English, among other languages. They also explore the history of language and other topics that capture their interest. The blog's name is inspired by the ancient Japanese poem anthology Manyoushuu, meaning "A Gathering of a Myriad of Leaves," where "leaf" also serves as an older synonym for "poem." Myriad Leaves acknowledges responsibility for any spelling mistakes, typographical errors, inconsistencies, mistranslations, and lapses that may occur.

Henry Unite is a software engineer. He contributed to a five-person engineering team at Atlas Software Engineer that was able to 13x revenue in a year and bring the company to a $27M Series B. He built the ability to add additional cardmembers to primary cardholders’ accounts through integration with the card processor, increasing daily active users by 25% and adding over $100K in annual revenue in the first year. He launched a partnership program with wealth management firms that enabled wealth managers to onboard their clients and add over $1M in annual spend to the platform. At LULA, as a Senior Software Engineer, he built the original MVP that scaled the company from hundreds to thousands of users, bootstrapping the initial product on Firebase, contributing to a $35M Series B raise.

Paul writes computer programs and makes sure they run smoothly on prem and on clouds. He often works with other people's programs, ensuring they behave with low latency. He offers services for writing programs and optimizing their performance. In his spare time, Paul plays the piano and builds businesses with questionable monetization strategies. He also uses his website to express his opinions. He likes technologies that work and have proven themselves over time. He created Relaydon, which relays RSS feeds to Mastodon, and OpenTun.ing, which creates sheet music for tunes. He also developed Dental Space, a cloud software for managing dental laboratory operations.

Jim Angel is an Infrastructure Cloud Consultant at G o o g l e. He has been littering the internet with documentation since 2017.

Steve is also known as 史蒂夫. He welcomes you to his blog where he writes about things he finds interesting. He mentions that the update frequency is random and that what you see is the result of whims and fleeting enthusiasm. He can be found on Github and can be contacted via email.

Feyor studies computer science and physics at UIUC. Their main interests are embedded systems, quantum communication and algorithms, and Emacsen. They are SIGPwny’s resident Nix (ab)user.

Rahul Ranjan is a curious individual who enjoys challenges. He values honesty and aims to create a safe and positive environment for others. Rahul has diverse interests, including running, cycling, skiing, writing, reading, photography, and badminton. He enjoys sharing ideas, opinions, and learnings. He shares his photography on YouTube.

Norman uses Norman's Oven to post about things he does, opinions, tutorials or things he likes to point out. He has been pointing out police misconduct and other things. Coding is a hobby and profession for him. Video games led him to code. He created a web game that started off similar to NeoPets. He finds that vertically integrated infrastructure lacks quite a bit because of new technologies. Professionally, he has worn many hats. He has built infrastructure software and plans to release a few products that makes heavy use of it. His musical consumption ranges from pop, rock, rap, metal and any mixture between them. He enjoys anime, Shark Tank, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and other shows. He is working on Excerion Sun LLC, a Delaware company.