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Israel Fermin Montilla is a software engineer, musician, and writer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is passionate about building meaningful products, creating music, and sharing his knowledge. He writes about technology, development practices, music, and personal reflections. Israel practices digital minimalism, focusing on quality, meaningful work, and genuine connections.

Dave Kobrenski is an artist, musician, and author. He is the author of *Finding the Source*, *Djoliba Crossing*, and *Drawing on Culture*. Between 2001 and 2016, Dave traveled extensively in West Africa to study traditional music with master musicians, including Famoudou Konaté and Lanciné Condé. Dave plays the Fulani flute, kamale ngoni, djembe, and balafon with his music project, called Afroflute. As an artist, Dave conveys his love for culture and diversity in his portrait drawings and watercolor paintings.

Anita is a Change Maker and Freedom Tech advocate. She is a Bitcoin educator, author, and the founder of Bitcoin for Fairness, a non-profit focused on Bitcoin adoption in the Global South through education and capacity building. Her work centers on promoting Freedom Tech like Bitcoin and Nostr, empowering individuals and the civil society to achieve financial freedom, digital privacy, and self-sovereignty. Anita has worked with the Human Rights Foundation and travels to support local communities in learning about Bitcoin. She shares her experiences through keynotes, her book (L)earn Bitcoin, her online learning platform Crack the Orange, and her YouTube channel.

Riccardo Giorato is a Software Engineer, Mentor, and Content Creator from Italy. He is a Fullstack Engineer at teero. Riccardo has mentored over 20 software engineers online through MentoMento. He creates Cypress tutorials and examples. Riccardo writes about programming, technology, and remote work on his blog and Medium.

Serah Blackstone-Fredericks is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and mentor. She is a living inquiry into how stories shape, live in, and liberate us. Her work includes selected essays, features, and published pieces across platforms, as well as Substack dispatches on life, loss, longing, and becoming. She offers mentorship and 1:1 offerings.

Mary Job is a community strategist, educator, and advocate for sustainable digital ecosystems. She helps purpose-driven communities thrive through strategy, storytelling, and systems. Over the last decade, she has worked at the intersection of technology, education, and inclusion, building spaces where people can connect, learn, and grow. She teaches individuals, organizations, and global tech projects how to design communities that last and pay. When not consulting or speaking, Mary is writing, traveling, and documenting stories.

Rob Sterlini is a front-end developer and Staff Full Stack Software Engineer at UNiDAYS. He has a first-class degree in Typography & Graphic Communication and has led projects across multiple disciplines. Previously, he worked at Zoopla as a Senior Software Engineer and at Fueled building web experiences for companies like Apple and Pinterest. Rob is also running the London Marathon in 2025 to fundraise for Mind. He enjoys making pasta, building LEGO sets, playing OSRS, and supporting Spurs.

David Hayes, often called drhayes, lives in Austin, TX and does stuff with computers. He is a dad who enjoys jokes, especially dad jokes. He is interested in plain text formats, productivity, and knowledge management. David is a musician who plays the piano and likes making music with trackers. He also enjoys keyboards that make too much noise, especially ergodox keyboards. He can be found online as drhayes or a variation of that name.

Manuel Romero is the founder of Hola Mundo, an independent publication launched in February 2025. He provides subscribers with full access to the website and email newsletters featuring new content. His work focuses on building and maintaining this subscription-based platform.

Drew Mann is an online entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in digital marketing and the founder of Drew's Review. He specializes in Affiliate Marketing, Ecommerce (including dropshipping and Amazon FBA), YouTube, AI and SEO. Drew leverages his expertise to review online courses and software on his blog, providing actionable advice and insights to help others navigate making money online. He has a portfolio of websites powered by affiliate marketing and eCommerce and also has YouTube automation channels. Drew has been featured in publications like Yahoo and Empire Flippers.

Katy Schutte is a writer, improviser, performer, and teaching artist. She improvises shows in different styles and genres, and has toured to over 30 countries, performing, directing, and teaching. Her book, *The Improviser's Way, A Longform Workbook*, is published by Nick Hern Books. She performs with companies including Project2, Hell Yeah!, Brand New Musical and We Built This City on Rock and Coal. She designs improv curriculum and writes and performs theatre shows in different genres. She also writes and performs immersive productions and has worked on augmented and virtual reality and multi-platform work. She was the first improv performer in VR. Her writing spans mediums including musical theatre, radio songs, web series, feature film, AR/VR shows and games, and card games.

Bravely She Blogs began in 2020 during a period of change in the blogging world. Initially influenced by content marketing pressures, Bravely is now evolving into its intended form: a space for unfiltered expression. It explores themes of depression, grief, parental alienation, and narcissistic spiritual abuse. Bravely aims to be a voice of quiet courage, offering a sense of belonging.

Tony Dang is a web developer who enjoys rock climbing and calisthenics. He uses his blog to experiment with web technologies and share useful things he creates and learns. He encourages visitors to read his blog posts, check out his projects, and watch videos of his talks, presentations, and podcasts. He can be contacted via email or video chat.

Sarah Ahn is a St. Louis-based designer with a background in UX design and studio arts. She graduated from Webster University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and from Treehouse with a Techdegree in UX Design. Before focusing on design, Sarah worked as a caricature artist at the Saint Louis Zoo and started her own business, Caricature STL, providing creative and artistic solutions such as event entertainment and custom illustrations. Currently, she is seeking UX design opportunities and training to be a yoga teacher.

Julien Brionne is an independent Product Lead. He works with founders and Heads of Product (Series A/B, critical products, teams of 15-50 people) when the product system has grown faster than its ability to make decisions. He helps teams that are delivering and have rituals in place, but find the product becoming more difficult to manage due to accumulated, unresolved decisions. Julien immerses himself in the team to identify decisions that have remained open for too long, simplifies the scope by explicitly stopping certain initiatives, and participates in arbitrations, assuming difficult choices and forcing the organization to make its decisions consistent over time. He has experience in SaaS B2B and B2C contexts, on critical products and platforms, and has held roles of Head of Product and Product Lead since 2012.

Alda Lima is an English - Brazilian Portuguese Translator and Language Specialist with 16 years of experience. She has translated 66 books and has over 1,000 hours as an interpreter. Her experience includes localization, transcreation, human & MTPE, LQA, transcription, and creative writing. Alda's expertise spans various industries, including marketing, Agile, luxury retail, gaming, entertainment, healthcare, wellness, travel & hospitality, and sustainability. She has worked with Brazilian book publishers, Scaled Agile Inc., Rolex, Ray-Ban, Oakley, ClassPass, Club Med, Life.io, and Shakespeare in the Ruins. Alda holds a Bachelor's Degree in Arts – Production Design from UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro's Federal University and is a SAFe Agilist certified.

Brad Garropy is a lead frontend developer, growing content creator, side project connoisseur, and open source maintainer. He blogs about his goals and reviews of past years. He also creates videos and side projects.

Uri Shaked makes stuff, writes, and speaks. He is currently working on Wokwi and Tiny Tapeout. He creates projects such as Wokwi, an online embedded systems simulator, and Tiny Tapeout, an affordable way to manufacture custom ASICs. He also created The Skull, a hardware CTF challenge, and The Salsa Beat Machine, a virtual salsa band practice tool. Uri Shaked also blogs about various topics, including hardware crowdfunding, ESP32 debugging, and Arduino simulation. He has given numerous tech talks on subjects like virtual hardware, reverse engineering, and machine learning.