Engineer Websites

Abdellatif Abdelfattah is a product builder who likes creating beautiful UIs. He worked as a full-stack engineer at Twitter. He co-founded Tarteel.ai, led the engineering team at Quran.com, and shipped with his friends at levels.fyi. He is currently building Agentset.

Görkem is a maker at heart, skilled in digital fabrication, programming, and hardware design. He explores building alternative technologies using open-source tools and shares his creations online. Görkem advocates for open-design and publishes his works under open software & hardware licenses. His projects have been featured on various media outlets, including VICE, Hackaday, Raspberry Pi News, and Arduino blog. He is a Physicist and Interaction Designer by training, with degrees from Bilkent University and Estonian Academy of Arts. He maintains a personal website as a creative canvas to showcase his work.

Stephen Gunn is a Kansas City based developer with over 20 years of experience in web development. His journey started with HTML4 and Netscape 3. He is passionate about transforming chaos into order, finding patterns in complexity, and giving information a clear and effective voice. Stephen focuses on building scalable, lasting projects that prioritize user experience. He works with a variety of languages and frameworks, including HTML, CSS, and TypeScript. His expertise extends to Svelte and SvelteKit for front-end development, as well as backend runtimes and RDBMS technologies. He is proficient with tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere and has a strong background in live streaming using OBS, and is skilled in audio recording and production. Stephen's workflow is terminal-based, with Linux as his primary environment.

Erik Schluntz is an engineer and entrepreneur with a passion for solving problems and increasing efficiency, particularly through automation. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, working on Large Language Models. Previously, he co-founded Cobalt Robotics and served as its CTO, building AI-enabled security guard robots. Earlier in his career, he worked on SpaceX’s Flight Software Team and Google[x]’s Smart Contact Lens project. Erik also founded Posmetrics, which was accepted to Y Combinator and later acquired. He graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering. His interests include mountain biking, sailing, skiing, hiking, reading science fiction, playing board games, and traveling.

Alvin Wan works at OpenAI. He creates resources to teach AI, including a guide to AI and a Leetcode for AI interviews. He also provides guides to the job hunt. Alvin is a fourth-year undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was Head Undergraduate Student Instructor for CS189: Machine Learning and formerly for CS70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory. Outside of work, he serves as Technology Manager for TEDxBerkeley. In his free time, he enjoys folding origami, drawing, reading, playing the piano, and designing.

Evan Schwartz is an ideas person, inventor, and software engineer specializing in Rust and Typescript. He is currently working on Scour, a personalized content feed. He previously created or co-created Autometrics, TurboVPB and Turbo Phonebank, and Interledger. Evan has worked at TigerBeetle, Fiberplane, and Ripple. Outside of work and programming, he enjoys running, cooking, taking beginner salsa lessons, reading about political economy, and making ceramics.

Chris Loy is a software engineer, data scientist, and serial entrepreneur working in the AI space. His background is in engineering and data science. He was the CTO and co-founder of Datasine, a startup in the AI space that was acquired by Shutterstock. Currently, he works as a startup advisor and fractional CTO. Chris has experience writing code, training machine learning models, building software products, and running tech teams. He has worked at companies big and small, mentored junior engineers and data scientists, and served as an advisor for some companies. He writes about tech, data, and AI on his website. He is based in London.

Joshua Fonseca Rivera is a Senior Software Engineer and AI Researcher. He builds large-scale distributed systems, fine-tunes LLMs, and hacks vintage hardware. His AI and Engineering Labs projects include training AI to find Austin's most dangerous streets and investigating how RLHF silences AI. He also replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue memory and fine-tuned GPT-4o for YouTube. Joshua evaluated whether open-source AI can read its own mind and tested LLM reasoning capabilities against philosophical paradoxes. He has experience with MongoDB to Postgres migrations and scaling backends to handle traffic spikes. Joshua created Vim-Bujo, an open-source CLI tool.

Max Leiter is currently building v0 at Vercel. He is interested in politics, tech, and building a fast, accessible web. He co-created v0.app with Shu Ding, Jared Palmer, and shadcn while on the AI team at Vercel. He worked with Shu Ding and later Lars Grammel on the first three versions of the Vercel AI SDK. His projects include SortableJS-vue3, KnightOS, and The Lounge.

Rey Foret is a person who listens to trees at night. Rey Foret takes recordings with capsule-microphones deep under the bark of trees.

Manuel Bernhardt is a polyglot software engineer, trainer, and independent consultant. He helps technology companies engineer, deploy, and operate highly available and fault-tolerant systems, and improve existing systems to meet predictable performance requirements. Manuel has experience in engineering and operating distributed systems. He is the author of the book Reactive Web Applications. He studied telecommunications at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon. He lives in Vienna, Austria and enjoys traveling. He is fluent in English, French and German.

Brad Woods is a front-end engineer. He is interested in rewilding the internet. His projects include Garden Talk, Layout Generator, 7 GUIs, Lord of the Rings, Git Time, ViewBox, POP culture, V8 Engine, XState, Evac Feed, and Apollo GraphQL. He also identifies as Edward from Cowboy Bebop.

Michael Bastos is a product leader, advisor, and angel investor. He is passionate about helping startups and high-growth companies scale. He has experience working with companies of all sizes, from early-stage startups to publicly traded companies. Michael has held leadership positions in product, marketing, and engineering. He is also an active angel investor and advisor, and enjoys helping other entrepreneurs build successful businesses.

André Videla is a functional programmer with an inkling for type theory and category theory. He is interested in dependent types, programming languages, user experience and user interfaces, compiler architecture, lenses, and quantitative types. He sometimes works on Idris2, mostly to resolve the problems that he encounters himself with the language. His PhD Thesis is about Monadic programming in the category of containers. He is interested in the ergonomics and the semantics of programming, in particular servers backends, data description languages, and compilers. He can be found on discord (identity5193) and mastodon @andrev@types.pl.

Bram Adams (@bramses) works on Your Commonbase, which is described as a simple ledger with complex computations. He reads five books a month and lives in NYC. He maintains an irregularly updated Goodreads list of books. His all time favorite books are listed on his website.

Vi Prime is a programmer and artist who helps people explore new and existing worlds. Vi's work on Unity Reflect and VisualLive allowed their customers to peer through walls and keep track of what they find. Work at ExpoTech made it possible to gear up for adventures by practicing with real firearms in a simulated space. Vi focuses on 3D art and game development, supported by experience in programming, web, and videography. Vi is a creative self-starter with a mix of technical and artistic skills.

Jason Thorsness is a software developer who enjoys exploring various technical topics. He is the creator of Tractor Loader, a library for NextJS and Sharp that enables inline image transformation in JSX or MDX. He has written about topics such as AI, databases, web development, and performance optimization. He shares his projects and thoughts on platforms like GitHub, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Thomas Groch is a person.

Chun Fei Lung publishes notes, blogs, and other types of articles on his personal website, Chuniversiteit. He writes about software engineering research, software development, work, and other topics that he finds interesting. He has been publishing since 2018.

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.

Jason Cameron is a Senior Software Engineer at Stan, based out of Toronto, Canada. He enjoys creating projects in his spare time. Notable projects include RedditVideoMakerBot and Anubis, an anti-scraper tool. His work focuses on backend development and system architecture. He maintains several services including metropolis, mCTF, MCPT, and Foodle. Outside of software, Jason enjoys playing Ultimate frisbee, photography, organizing/participating at/mentoring hackathons, and spending time with his dog, Bella. He also has a passion for exploring the world.

Skye Freeman is a programmer and hobbyist musician who enjoys pancakes. Currently, Skye works in Product Engineering at Aura Frames, and previously worked at Affirm and Venmo. Skye's projects include a self-hosted micro blog, Swift Starter Kits (a modern iOS boilerplate built with SwiftUI), fretboard.el (an Emacs package for visualizing guitar notes), and broadcast.ex (an Elixir package for social media posting). Skye writes a blog, mostly about programming, learning, and current projects.

Ryan Mavilia, also known as Mav, writes about the small experiments that shape his life. His topics include phone addiction, persistence, creative recovery, and figuring out what actually matters. He sometimes writes about tech or his other hobbies. He is currently trying to be less distracted and more intentional. He can be found on GitHub and LinkedIn.

Tom Dekan solves business problems, often with code. He is an AI engineer and CTO at Stackfix. He writes about topics such as creating Django and React apps, AI image generation, synthetic data for AI training, adding Stripe to Next.js, and using Google's Veo3 for video generation. He also shares strategies for customer development using LinkedIn and automating git commit messages. His work includes guides to vector embeddings, LLMs, detecting AI-generated text, and launching on Product Hunt.