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César Ferradas is a Software Engineer and Systems Architect from Lima, Peru. He is a Software Engineering leader with over 11 years of programming experience and 8+ years in professional roles at both startups and large companies. He graduated from University College London with a BSc in Computer Science with a minor in Entrepreneurship, earning First Class honours. César has expertise in software development across the stack, as well as in Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and Site Reliability. He is passionate about sustainable software and focuses on simple code design, scalability and efficiency. He was the creator and main author of Heron Python and has contributed to projects such as Flasgger, RQ and Tofu Auth.

Joe Banks is a Software Engineer based in London and a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. He maintains large data pipelines at the BBC in the Digital Distribution department. He primarily works with Python, but also enjoys Elixir and Golang. He is interested in the internet and how it works, with a particular fondness for DNS and BGP. Joe is a co-founder of Python Discord, a programming community with over 400,000 members. He also serves as DevOps Lead for the community, maintaining their Kubernetes and Ansible based infrastructure. He is the administrator of the hobbyist AS211224 network, a small, IPv6-only network.

Dan Bartlett is a founder, writer, coach and bodyworker. He has 20 years of coding experience and 10 years of building teams. He helped his last company grow to a $150m valuation. Today, he coaches nerds, leaders and founders. He supports startups in optimising their product and engineering processes. He was a cofounder and Head of Engineering at Almanac. He was also the founder of a meditation community called OpenSit which was acquired in 2017. He has worked as an EM at GoCardless. He has meditated for nearly 15 years. He ran 100km in a day and raised £1200 for the mental health charity, Mind.

Mike Bell is a developer, tinkerer, coder, hacker, and husband in his 30s. He is powered by coffee and whisky. Mike lives with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Generalised Anxiety Disorder, which he has had for all of his adult life. His views are his own.

Dean Sas is a father, husband, software engineer, cyclist, reader and a geek. He lives in Chesterfield, UK. He is passionate about the web, cycling and reading. He works for Automattic on WordPress.com, where they are on a mission to democratise publishing and commerce. He can be contacted via email at dean@deansas.org or via social media.

Bridget Hunt shares her approach to living the best life she can. She focuses on overcoming procrastination and believes in taking action "NOW." Inspired by Andrew Huberman's insights on dopamine, she has made significant changes in her own life to combat procrastination. Bridget offers tips and strategies for improving productivity, emphasizing breaking tasks into smaller steps, setting specific goals, and using time management techniques. She encourages self-compassion and finding peak productivity times. Bridget's journey with procrastination has been tough but rewarding, leading her to prioritize getting things done.

Aran Wilkinson is a software engineer based in Huddersfield, UK. He has a passion for building robust and scalable systems. His expertise includes Golang, Rust, cloud technologies, CI/CD systems, and event-driven architectures. He works as a contractor, consultant, and mentor. He enjoys working on greenfield projects, leveraging event-driven design principles, and building systems that respond to and process events in real-time. Outside of his professional pursuits, he enjoys cooking, especially making pizza. He also enjoys cycling, traveling, and engaging in DIY projects.

Celeste is a Taiwanese individual working in the UK. She resides in Manchester and works as a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Manager for a SaaS provider. Her background is in language-related fields, having graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Interpreting. She previously worked as a technical writer and freelance translator in Taiwan. After deciding to switch careers, she returned to the UK and successfully transitioned into the digital marketing field. Celeste shares her experiences with overseas work and life observations on her website, Notes by Celeste. Her website also includes practical resources and interviews.

Alex Panagis is a Swiss-born entrepreneur and founder based in London since 2022. He is the founder of ScaleMath, where he operates and advises industry-leading companies, focusing on helping them scale customer acquisition. ScaleMath was officially launched in 2018 and has worked with companies worldwide. Alex started his entrepreneurial journey at a young age and is passionate about helping companies grow faster and better. He has managed marketing and SEO for companies and directly helped founders drive their company’s rankings, recognition, and revenue. He has been featured in HubSpot, Business Insider, and WP Engine.

Becca is an indie Apple platforms developer and a software engineering manager. She is also a Mum, tech tinkerer, reader, runner and occasional gamer. She is currently working on Chronicling, her iOS app for tracking anything. Before working in tech, she completed a PhD in Geophysics at the University of Oxford. She is mostly active on Mastodon. She has appeared on podcasts such as Launched with Charlie Chapman and iPad Pros with Tim Chaten to discuss Chronicling. She sends out occasional updates with new posts, interesting links and projects she's working on via her newsletter.

Douglas Rumbaugh is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering under Dr. Dong Xie at Penn State University. Prior to his current role, he was a member of the computer science faculty at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and worked as an IT consultant. He holds degrees in both computer science and mechanical engineering. His interests include programming, working with Unix-like systems, and teaching.

Toska is someone who wears many hats. She is a scientist in training by day who tries to distance herself from science by night. This blog is an experiment to test if she can consistently write and hopefully improve along the way. She speaks English and German fluently and Russian fairly well and is trying to learn Turkish. She reads a lot and can be followed on StoryGraph. Aside from live music events, large gatherings overwhelm her. She enjoys spending time with her friends at a café or park. She believes people should send their friends more physical cards. She can be contacted at toska0@posteo.com.

Ding Yu lives in Tokyo, Japan. He is the CTO at tourcandy and was previously VP of Product and Engineering at Japan Foodie. He is a long-time designer and web developer with selected works available. Ding Yu is a Pink Floyd and Murakami Haruki diehard. He has worked on projects such as Kintoun, a translator for Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and 若愚, which provides information and services related to ChatGPT for immigration, career development, product planning, and software development. He is also associated with 东光读书会. His old works can be found on Flickr.

Rob Allen is a software consultant and technology leader living in Worcester, UK. He is passionate about producing pragmatic solutions which are maintainable for the long term. Rob is a leader, advisor, engineer, open source maintainer, and a public speaker. He maintains rst2pdf and Slim Framework and is on the Laminas and Apache OpenWhisk leadership teams. He creates his own projects that he shares on GitHub and contributes to other projects that he uses. Rob is the primary author of Zend Framework in Action and contributed to C++Builder 5 Developer’s Guide. He has been a professional software engineer since 1995, after graduating as an Electronic Engineer from The University of Birmingham in the UK. He concentrates on HTTP APIs, lives in the UK, runs 19FT and publishes Daily Jotter for Mac. He also takes photos.

Samir Talwar is an automation engineer who focuses on removing bottlenecks, improving team cohesion, and improving delivery time. He has experience as a CTO, a software engineer, and a project manager, and tends to fill whatever role needs filling. He enjoys writing. Samir typically works with functional code, especially in Haskell and Rust, but is not picky. He often finds himself wrangling Jira, writing shell scripts, or setting up a Nix cache. He helps teams deliver functionality faster. He can be contacted by email or on the fediverse.

Bart Wronski is a coder passionate about the intersection of technology and art. Bart grew up in Warsaw, Poland, and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. Professionally, Bart is a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research, working on the future of real-time graphics. Before that, Bart was a Staff Software Engineer at Google Research on image processing, computational photography, computer vision, and machine learning. Bart's career includes experience in the AAA console video games industry, including roles at Sony Santa Monica Studio, Ubisoft Montreal, and CD Projekt RED. Outside of work, Bart enjoys music, visual arts, philosophy, snorkeling, strength sports, and recreational cycling.

Chris lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. He approaches things as a quant, systems thinker, and anarchist. His interests are tangentially useful for software product development and delivery. He has worked in software engineering, site reliability engineering, management, and undercover statistics. He writes articles to teach his future self and others. He publishes his ideas so that other people can poke holes in them. He likes getting emails.

Isaac Jordan is a Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Future. He previously worked as a Software Engineer at G-Research, AWS, and Amazon Retail. He has 10 years of professional software engineering experience. Isaac Jordan holds a Computer Science (First Class) degree from the University of Glasgow. He is proficient in C#, Java, TypeScript, and JavaScript.

David Bowen is a studio artist and educator. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including ZKM Karlsruhe, Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Eyebeam New York, Ars Electronica Linz, BOZAR Brussels, Science Gallery Dublin, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijón, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, The Cranbrook Museum of Art Detroit, Intercommunication Center Tokyo and Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. He is a two-time recipient of a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship and has received awards such as Grand Prize, Japan Media Arts Festival; Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica; and Third Prize, Vida Art and Artificial Life international competition. Bowen has been an artist in residence at Autodesk Pier 9, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Arctic Circle and has collaborated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Rose Rachel is the ethereal creator of the Roseiverse, a plane of existence. Fae is an artist, actor, and women/gender studies major, and also a web developer. Fae identifies as a transfemme anarchist system of six, and is autistic and ADHD. Fae built the website using only HTML and CSS. Rose can be reached on Tumblr or via email at rose@roseiverse.com.