Developer Websites

Sebastian Hyberts is passionate about game and software development. He graduated from GameIT College in 2016, with a focus on game development using Unity3D and C#. During and after high school, he developed an internal-use app for Merrisun as the sole developer, using C# and Xamarin with a PHP backend. He worked for Kiloo as an Associate Software Engineer and Game Tester. Sebastian also worked on a student project for Varmekontrol, creating a Java/Spring system. He assisted the Distributed, Embedded and Intelligent Systems research unit at Aalborg University, creating high-performance parsers. In 2022, he earned a master's degree in Software Engineering from Aalborg University, specializing in programming language research. Currently, he is a Platform Engineer at Subaio. He also volunteers at ABK-Net and used to volunteer at Dotsrc.

Egan Bisma is a fully-stacked engineer. He is currently at Cornell Tech, starting in August 2025, in New York. Previously, he worked at Sociolla in Jakarta from June 2024 to July 2025, BRIK in Jakarta from January 2023 to May 2024, and HPE in San Jose, CA from September 2019 to October 2022. He has worked on projects such as Glazier, a headless React window management primitive, and Rematch Coach, a desktop app to analyze user gameplays for online competitive video games. He also created Kopimap, a map of cafes in DKI Jakarta, and ScreenplaySubs, a Chrome extension to watch movies in Netflix with screenplays in sync, side-by-side.

Alessio Marchetti is a Data Scientist at Avvale. He formerly studied math at Università di Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore. Alessio is the creator of a sudoku variant game that uses standard 9x9 Sudoku as a base and adds optional mechanics. He wrote a high school thesis on Genetic Algorithms, with some basic ideas and some working examples. He also created a WIP game and an Ising Model Simulation via Propp-Wilson Algorithm for a university exam. His bachelor degree thesis focused on Lambda Calculus. Alessio's master degree thesis involved building a transformer based model to predict the evolution of the clinical condition of patients and an explaination pipeline for a post-hoc local explaination.

Filippo Valsorda is a cryptography engineer and professional open source maintainer. He maintains the cryptography standard library of the Go programming language. He was the lead of the Go Security team at Google until 2022, and was on the Cryptography team at Cloudflare until 2017. He attended the Recurse Center batches Fall 2013 and Fall 2 2017. He can be found on GitHub and Twitch as FiloSottile, on Mastodon as @filippo@abyssdomain.expert, and on Bluesky as @filippo.abyssdomain.expert.

Lelanthran is a software developer based out of Gauteng, South Africa. Lelanthran writes software and works on anything computery. Lelanthran operates a small technology consultancy, producing bespoke software systems. Lelanthran can advise on potential projects, create prototypes or Proof of Concepts, and fix existing software.

Daniel Bahl, also known as girafpingvin, is a content creator who makes child-friendly entertainment on YouTube, primarily featuring games like Minecraft and Roblox. He has a YouTube channel with over 17,400 subscribers and has been creating content for about 2 years. His videos often include his children, Magnus (10) and Tilde (8). Daniel is married to Rikke and lives in Silkeborg with his family and their dog, Bahloo. In addition to YouTube, he posts on Instagram, releases music on Spotify, and works as a tech entrepreneur focused on making buildings smarter and more climate-friendly. He also enjoys coding and has a passion for IT security. Daniel sold his first company, a search engine called Nope, at the age of 14. He later sold his hosting company for a seven-figure amount.

Sylvain is a web developer at onepoint in Bordeaux. He is interested in backend, DevOps, CI, and infrastructure. He can be contacted on Twitter, LinkedIn, DevTo, Github, or by mail. He presented his first meetup on Youtube on February 1, 2022. He wrote about recovering SQL dumps from a MySQL/Mariadb instance that no longer starts, managing email aliases, and tracking the progress of his EPSI end-of-year thesis. He also wrote about writing an end-of-study thesis for EPSI Bordeaux.

Sebastian is a software developer from Berlin, Germany. He currently works for Small Improvements and builds smaller software projects in his free time. He loves collaborating in small teams on impactful and creative projects. He cares deeply about quality, sustainability, and accessibility. He is a believer in continuous learning, staying humble, and letting the best ideas win. Sebastian also makes music under the name bm_128 and as part of the band MØDI. He also takes photos. His website serves as a digital portfolio and a platform for his thoughts about software development, web design, and other random topics.

Reiko Kaps writes about retrocomputing, Linux, and networking. He has written about using a 17-year-old iMac as an emulation system for DosBox and Hatari. His interests include Wayland and Tiling Windows with Hyprland, as well as adding permanent entries to the ARP table of a Linux machine. He has also written about FUZIX, a Unix for 8-bit CPUs. He can be contacted via Mastodon, Codeberg, XMPP, Signal, or mail.

Mike Wilson is a self-taught developer with about 10 years of experience making software. Prior to becoming a developer, he worked as a Business Analyst in the banking industry for 7 years. He enjoys working on a mix of architectures, often using Rails and Stimulus as well as .NET Core and Angular depending on the project. He is a Father and Husband.

Dr. Christakis Mina has over 30 years of experience in construction, aerospace and academia. He has worked in private and academic sectors across Europe, USA and Asia, and has been involved in multi-billion-dollar projects in various domains such as airports, buildings, amusement parks, tunnels, bridges, highways, plants and lifelines. He has conducted research in risk analysis, machine learning and social network analysis. He is a registered professional civil engineer in Cyprus, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb), and a member of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber. Currently, he is a Manager at Technical HQ, Kansai Airports.

Matthew Fedak is a British software developer originally from Sheffield, England. Since 2015, he has spent a lot of time in Essen, Germany. He is also a travel enthusiast. Matthew started a blog in 2007 to post photos of his life and travels. He attained a first class honours in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester and later a masters degree in Creative Technology. In 2009, he began working as a junior PHP developer. He later worked as a freelancer in Sydney, Australia. He finished the Sheffield half marathon in 2014 and 2015. He is now fluent in German.

Kenrick Kenrick is a front-end developer. He has a blog, a GitHub profile, and a LinkedIn profile.

Daniel Nitsikopoulos is a software engineer living in Canberra, Australia. He has worked on projects such as PatternMate, an application to organise sewing patterns, and Adamantium, the source code behind a previous blog. He posts regularly and enjoys watching movies.

Mihai Olteanu is a JavaScript, Lisp, and C software developer. He enjoys Emacs, functional programming, Linux systems, programmable split keyboards, writing, and barefoot shoes. He collaborates remotely with small and independent teams across Europe on software activities, including Node-based microservices and distributed systems. Mihai takes on short-term, long-term, or project-based contracts through his single-member company and is located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He enjoys road-biking and hiking in the summer, and reading and thinking in the winter.

Edward Ross is a Data Scientist, Writer and Learner. He is the creator of Whatcar.xyz, a Deep Learning classifier for Australian cars, and a system for extracting and cleaning Australian job ads from Common Crawl. He writes articles on skeptric.com covering topics such as calculating Moving Averages in SQL, Searching Common Crawl with CDX and Athena, Finding near duplicates with Minhash, and Calculating the Centroid on a Spherical Polygon. He has also worked through tutorials and books such as Computational Exercises from All of Statistics by Larry Wasserman, Exercises from Regression and Other Stories, and Baking Pi Tutorial for building a Baremetal OS on Raspberry Pi.

Simon Eskildsen co-founded turbopuffer, a fast search engine for object storage, in 2023. From 2021 to 2023, he helped friends’ companies scale their infrastructure, including Replicate, Causal, Datafold, and Readwise. He started maintaining sirupsen/napkin-math and blogging on the topic in 2019. From 2013 to 2021, Simon worked at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada, as Principal Engineer/Director, scaling the infrastructure. He competed for Denmark at the International Olympiad in Informatics in high school. From 2010 to 2013, he worked with Rails at startup Relatel. He grew up in Aarhus, Denmark.

Kevin Albertson is a Software Developer from Hamilton, NJ. He creates Software, Websites, and Games.

Doug Brown is a classic Mac and Linux enthusiast who also uses Windows. He enjoys tinkering with Linux kernel development in his spare time. Doug is currently the Senior Manager of Embedded Software at Skip-Line, where he works with bare-metal firmware for microcontrollers and embedded Linux projects for the road marking industry. He writes about interesting problems he solves and cool personal projects on his website.

Jonathan is a software developer based in Dresden, Germany. He works mainly in web development as a fullstack developer, specialising in the frontend development. He primarily uses TypeScript/JavaScript, as well as Python and occasionally Rust. He has given talks at Dev Day in Dresden, c't <webdev> in Cologne, NodeConfEU in Waterford, Ireland, and EnterJS in Mainz, Germany. He also created an online tool for generating key cards for playing Codenames Duet. He can be contacted via jonathan.frere@ example.com. gmail.com or through his employer, Esveo GmbH.

Ashwani Rathee is a Master of Science in Computer Science student at UC Santa Cruz, advised by Prof. Alex Pang and Prof. James Davis in UCSC VIS Lab. His research currently focuses on understanding the 3D world with embodied agents to aid people. Before joining UCSC, he was a Software Engineer at FleetSafe working on radar focused surveillance systems. He received his B.E. in Information Technology from Panjab University, where he was advised by Prof. Mamta Juneja in the MDaRT DIC Lab. He contributed to open-source via GSOC'22, OSPP'21, GSSOC'21, and PSOC'20 working on spanning image processing, sentiment analysis, and machine learning.

Suraj Chaudhary is a writer, developer, and founder who shares lessons and resources for living a fuller life. He publishes articles weekly, offering actionable tips for optimizing life and work. His work focuses on productivity, personal life, and business/careers. Suraj started his blog in 2021 as a collection of inspirations, ideas, realizations, and lessons he has accumulated. He was born in Nepal and moved to NYC for higher education. He is currently a Mathematics and Computer Science major (Honors) at St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn, New York. He also runs a YouTube channel and sometimes hosts a podcast.

David Winter is a Software Engineer based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in the United Kingdom. He has a passion for coding and writing about it. He has co-authored four books, including "Modernising Legacy Applications in the Public Sector," "User-centered Practices for Sustainable Technology," "Building High Performance Agile Teams," and "A Field Guide To Continuous Delivery." David is currently developing a keyboard driven note application called nimblenote, built with Electron and available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Eliseo Martelli is a Software Developer & Photographer based in Turin, Italy. He is currently engaged in building a reproducible computing platform for bioinformatics research. He is a computer science student passionate about networking and high performance computing. His interests also include art, photography, design and music. Eliseo works as a Researcher at Consortium GARR in Rome, Italy. He also works as a Software Developer at Federazione Gomma Plastica in Milan, Italy. He has experience as a Network Technician at Dedalonet S.r.l. He has also worked as a Freelance Software Developer and Open Source Software Contributor.