Websites from Canada

Amy is a practitioner offering Forest Therapy Walks and Wayfinder Coaching. She believes in the innate wisdom within each individual and supports clients in uncovering their true nature. Inspired by her own journey of healing from occupational burnout, she uses embodied and meditative practices to help others recognize what brings them freedom, peace, love, generosity, and joy. Amy is a daughter, mother, wife, sister, and aunty, and currently lives on the Traditional Territories of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. She has a background in healthcare as a physiotherapist and executive.

Patricia Borlongan is a front-end developer and digital designer currently working at goodmorning.com. Her work focuses on web design and development, with a belief in prioritizing user and business goals. She is a growing developer and designer who learns through hands-on experience, building, breaking, and fixing code. Patricia also volunteers for organizations like Ladies Learning Code, SACE, and Dev Edmonton Society, where she is a board secretary. In her free time, she enjoys illustration.

Reese is a CS student at UWaterloo. They are looking for w26 internships. Recent ventures include TryTorial.com. Reese is developing clean tech software at Elastic Energy and is a Campus Ambassador at Warp.dev. They have a Twitter and blog.

Ella is a Deaf(ish) graphic designer and artist of many disciplines. They are also a dog parent of mostly-Scottish ancestry, currently living on unceded Quw'utsun territory (Coast Salish). Ella creates solo tabletop roleplaying games and is influenced by anti-capitalism, bouldering, eating plants, and zines, among other things. They are interested in imagining a better world and learning new skills, including Scottish Gaelic.

Deb Rouleau, also known as SekhmetDesign, is a Punk Web Specialist Geek. She is a digital communication and web marketing professional by day and an elder full-stack/frontend web developer with 25 years of experience. She is also a wannabe Infosec enthusiast, focusing on OSINT and social engineering. Deb is an amateur historian, social media manager for Hackfest, and co-founder/organizer of the Montreal GeekFest. She is a mental health awareness advocate and a diversity/LGBTQ+ advocate. She identifies as they/she. She writes in both French and English.

Daniel is a programmer, Linux user, text editor enjoyer, and graduate student. He writes about his interests, which include notes, essays, rants, and guides. His personal work is open source and consists of small, focused tools. He contributes to projects like Ashen, Kakoune, and zona. He also manages shring.sh. He prefers software that is small, understandable, and well-behaved.

Alex Kazam creates experiences that blend psychology, theatre, and impossibility. His work is designed to remind audiences that reality is bendier than they think. He has received an award for his personal blog and a YouTube award for having over 100,000 subscribers. Alex appeared in a small segment on America’s Got Talent. He also performed a live mind-reading special called "Magic Beyond Tricks."

Hamish Johnson is a photographer and physicist. He recently completed his Bachelors in Physics with a certificate in Digital Journalism at Simon Fraser University. He is currently working in quantum communications and optical control systems, with a side focus on data communication and science journalism related to quantum physics. He enjoys landscape and nature photography, and is pushing his comfort with portrait work. He also enjoys hiking and skiing. He experiments with programming languages like Python, C++, Ruby, and JS to develop his own projects. He maintains a personal website to showcase his work in physics, prototyping, and digital journalism.

Tris is a web developer and design engineer who builds fast, accessible, and beautiful websites. They are the lead developer for Orium's internal codebases, streamlining processes, delivering new features, and maintaining platform stability. Tris helps businesses and individuals create compelling online experiences, crafting unique solutions to stand out or streamline their digital presence. They have experience with technologies such as Next.js, SCSS Modules, Contentful, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Lottie.js, React, Gatsby, Shopify, Liquid, Vue, Nuxt.js, and styled-components.

Zakhary is a computer engineer and retro-computer enthusiast, particularly of the Nintendo Game Boy. He learned to code with Python in 2014 and has since focused on low-level/systems programming (C, C++, and Rust) and hardware (Verilog). He enjoys solving low-level problems on constrained systems where performance considerations are heavily relevant. Zakhary is currently a Sr. Rust Developer at Tenstorrent. He previously worked as an FPGA Architect at Altera and as a computer architect intern at Qualcomm. He earned a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Taran Bains is a self-taught full-stack software engineer based in Vancouver, Canada with over seven years of experience. He is passionate about Typescript, both front-end and back-end. Taran aims to share his knowledge with the world through his website and other platforms. He values effort, accountability, and collaboration, drawing inspiration from figures like Andrew Huberman and his father. Beyond software development, Taran enjoys Lord of the Rings, the color pink, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and is a published poet.

Peter Scriven is a Software Engineer from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently living in Montreal, Canada and learning French. He is interested in data visualization, open data, and the open web. Peter has worked as a Full Stack Developer at Trade Me, New Zealand's largest online marketplace, and as a Data Analyst at CCS Disability Action. He is passionate about building interesting systems that solve important problems and enjoys tinkering with small open source projects. In his spare time, he plays guitar and skis.

Laure Marin de la Vallée works 1-on-1 with clients in Somatic Massage Therapy and Ayurvedic Consulting in Montreal and online. Living with chronic illness for 25 years, she writes about autoimmune remission, philosophy, traditional medicine, and joyful embodiment. Her approach involves exploring life as an archaeological dig, moving away from a war-zone mentality towards the body. Laure's practice is influenced by Contact Improvisation, Taiji, Qigong, Tuina, Craniosacral Therapy, the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique, and Focusing. She is also the Adjunct Director of the Académie Québécoise d’Ayurveda, where she is completing her certification as an Ayurvedic Naturopath.

Ben is a software engineer and Mandarin speaker based in Canada. He builds apps using Ruby on Rails and AI. He shares his thoughts on web, game, and technology development on his blog. Ben is currently building Stray, a link-sharing service. He also developed English Fox, an AI-powered vocabulary learning tool. He was a core developer for the Darkstar Project, an open-source recreation of the Final Fantasy XI server, where he focused on monster AI. Ben founded Throw The Project, a Flash game studio.

Mike Fiorillo is a growth advisor and former Staff Product Manager. He helps startups with growth roadmaps, PLG (Product-Led Growth), and activation strategies. He has previously worked at Temporal, DuckDuckGo, and InVision. Mike focuses on PLG, growth roadmaps, data & experimentation, and CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization). He assists early and growth-stage startups in building sustainable growth engines through PLG, activation optimization, and experimentation.

Jolyssa is someone who embraces contradiction and finds joy in both the process and the human experience. They are a creator who makes music, writes code, and builds things with their hands. They are driven by a desire to feel alive and leave a lasting impact. Jolyssa shares their thoughts and creations on their website, offering a glimpse into their personal journey and ongoing projects.

Alex Leung is a Syntropy Engineer, Programmer, and Professional Engineer (P.Eng.). He builds products from 0-1 and scales them from 1-100. Currently, he works at Jetson, focusing on vertically integrated energy solutions. His previous experience includes developing AR/AI Glasses at Google and driving product engineering initiatives at Cash App. Alex's background spans distributed systems, embedded systems, and AI. He holds an MSECE from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BASc from the University of Waterloo. He enjoys playing tennis, reading, hiking, rock climbing, and spending time with his cat.

Jeet Mehta is the founder of Swift, a B2B SaaS company for sports facilities. Previously, he worked as a Product Manager & Data Scientist at Shopify. He was born in Bangalore and raised in Toronto. He has experience in mobile development, circuit design, machine learning, data science, and product management. He played for the Canadian national cricket team. Jeet enjoys reading, writing, and playing cricket. He is interested in building an online presence and publishing written content.

Noel Berry sometimes makes video games and art. They spend most of their time at Extremely OK Games. Noel has worked on games such as City of None, Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, Celeste Classic 2, Celeste, Celeste Classic, Skytorn, Chaos Heart, Kiki and the Monster, Drunken Assassin, Outpost, Prism Panic, Broken Robot Love, Chunkadelic, Abandoned Incubattle, Reach For It, The Depths, Leap 4 Blue, Pixel Runner 2, The Plunge, Pixel Switch, Red n Blue, AGOSS, Chimpventure, and Zymo. Noel has also written about making video games in 2025, remaking Celeste's Lighting, and procedural generation.

Jack Harrhy is currently at Spellbook working on AI stuff and spending too much time on personal projects with no revenue potential. Previously, he worked for C-CORE, CoLab Software, and Bluedrop. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland from 2017 to ~2023, but gave up trying to complete his undergrad. He survived cancer twice. He grew up in Ystrad Mynach, Wales, and moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 2008.