Engineer Websites

Ian Duncan is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in The Netherlands. He is a full-stack developer living in The Hague and currently works as an engineer at Mercury, a financial technology company that develops bank products for startups. At Mercury, he focuses on making it easier for other engineers to write correct, resilient, and maintainable code. Before Mercury, Ian was Principal Engineer at Forge Global, a private equity marketplace, where he helped build a platform for trading private company shares and assisted with the merger with SharesPost. He has been writing in Haskell and other functional programming languages professionally since 2014.

Oscar Molnar, also known as Tymscar, is a Senior Software Engineer currently working at Glean. His professional interests include visualisation, large-scale deployments, *nix systems, and competitive programming. He has been programming for 18 years, starting with making mods for games. Oscar has deep understanding of both React and Lit for front-end development, as well as backend design and maintenance of large scale Node/Express applications. He is proficient in Python 3, using it for competitive programming exercises. Oscar has professional experience with Unity3D & Unreal Engine, creating VR/AR visualisations for Jaguar Land Rover. He is confident using Git and has experience with Plastic SCM. Oscar has personal, daily experience with Linux, macOS & Windows. He also has app development experience with iOS & Android.

Peter Ullrich is a Senior Elixir developer and educator. He has a background in Psychology and Computing Science from the University of Groningen. Peter is a PragProg Author, public speaker, blogger, and founder. He is passionate about Software Architecture, Product Engineering, and sharing knowledge. Since 2024, he has worked as an Elixir consultant, focusing on small-to-medium companies and project development. Previously, he built internal payroll software at Remote and Studitemps. Peter develops frontends preferably with Phoenix LiveView and attempts to apply his Psychology knowledge in the IT context. He is also a bicycle activist living in The Netherlands.

Markus Strasser works on psychoanalysising generative models (mechanistic interpretability) and infusing them with good taste (preference alignment). He makes art and studies the physics of biological information processing. Previously, he worked on drug discovery, biomedical literature search and knowledge discovery (with funding from Emergent Ventures), machine learning interpretability, no-code tools, browser extensions, and bioinformatic automation at Oxford Nanopore. He studied philosophy, some mathematics, and later fine art with stints in Viennese and Prague Ateliers, the Barcelona Academy of Arts, and Stanford.

Will Morrison is a mechatronics engineer who likes to make things. He is interested in procedural generation, musical instrument design, robotics, and pretty much anything that could be considered tech art. He made his website to have somewhere to document the things that he builds.

Yakko likes building things and telling stories. Yakko is a product/software/data/infra engineer. Currently, Yakko is building Skald, a knowledge base that stays up-to-date. If you want to chat, contact Yakko.

Carolina Baffigo is an architect, engineer, and builder focused on bringing purpose, performance, and profit together. She has almost thirty years of experience building things, starting as a mechanical engineer designing products and systems, and then moving into leadership roles building teams and commercial organizations. Her work focuses on helping organizations tighten how they sell and refine what they bring to market through Project Fluent™ and Profit Arc™ methodologies. Carolina helps leaders and teams who want their businesses to run better with clearer priorities, stronger execution, and healthier profit. She believes meaning and purpose show up through how we work, lead, and build.

Sam Saffron is the Co CEO of Discourse and a co-founder. He lives in sunny Sydney. He loves writing about performance, Ruby, Mini Profiler and technology related topics. He can be contacted at sam@samsaffron.com for speaking engagements and general enquiries.

Nathan Barry is a CS graduate student at UT Austin interested in systems and machine learning. He enjoys working on hard problems with great people and occasionally writes about things that interest him. Nathan is currently finishing his Master’s of Science in CS at UT Austin (Aug 2024 - Present). He will be a Graduate Researcher at UT Austin starting in August 2025, working on diffusion language models and previously distributed low-communication training. Previously, he worked at Apple as a Machine Learning Intern (May 2025 - Aug 2025) and as an Undergraduate Researcher at UT Austin (Feb 2024 - Sep 2024). He also worked at multiple startups as a Software Engineer (Nov 2021 - Jan 2025). Nathan finished his Bachelor’s of Science in CS and Math at UT Austin (Aug 2021 - May 2025).

Rob Bowley has worked in technology for over 25 years, starting as a software engineer around the time of the DotCom boom. Approximately 14 years ago, he transitioned into leadership positions. He currently works as a Product & Leadership Technology Advisor, Consultant, Coach & Mentor. He has been part of early-stage start-ups and scale-ups, as well as large-scale enterprises. His leadership experience includes leading teams ranging from small to large, with a focus on building scalable products and creating motivated and productive team environments. He is an early adopter and advocate for Agile practices and created the Agile Retrospective Wiki. He is passionate about contributing to the local tech community and making the tech industry more accessible.

Radek Kozieł is a software designer and developer. He shares his thoughts and interesting finds on his website. He is the author of two open-source themes for Hugo: Terminal and Hello Friend. He also created a custom set of semantic styles called Terminal.css. He can be found on Mastodon and Bluesky. He is from Poland.

Alex Hyett is a software developer based in the UK. He has been programming professionally since 2010, with his coding journey starting in the 90s. He enjoys technology, programming, self-hosting, and gaming. He writes about these topics on his website and creates short videos on software engineering for his YouTube channel. Alex studied physics at the University of Bath where he got a masters degree. He also enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar, and watching movies. On his website, he writes about technology, programming, entrepreneurship, self-hosting, and the internet.

Ilja Panic is an Information Ecologist who crafts intentional software experiences and explores the intersections of technologies and living systems. Ilja is currently building AI-enabled tools and protocols for ecosystem mapping and knowledge sharing with Resolve. Since circa 2012, Ilja has been making products on the web and has collaborated with digital agencies, nonprofits, early-stage startups, SMEs and large enterprises. Some of the companies Ilja has worked with include Avast, GoodData, and Phrase. Ilja has a penchant for thoughtful design, clear information architecture and meticulously crafted experiences. Ilja approaches their praxis with a critical eye, stemming from an eclectic academic background in complex systems and emergent technologies.

Chris Hannah is a Senior Software Engineer at WorldFirst, where he works on various types of software using Java, Python, JavaScript, and other languages. He also dedicates personal time to writing code and has open-source projects on GitHub, as well as apps like Text Case and Text Shot. Beyond coding, Chris enjoys photography, particularly with 35mm film cameras. He shares some of his photography online, with more on Instagram. Chris also enjoys writing about various topics and is working on refining his writing approach to focus on more thoughtful essays.

Stefan Abi-Karam is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering under Prof. Cong (Callie) Hao as part of Sharc Lab. His Ph.D. work focuses on AI for hardware design and EDA, with a focus on FPGA and high-level synthesis (HLS) design flows. His research includes creating large-scale HLS/HDL datasets, benchmarking LLMs for hardware code generation, and integrating LLMs into HLS and FPGA design tools. He is also a full-time research faculty at Georgia Tech through Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) within the Cybersecurity, Information, Communication, Command and Control and Software Systems (CIPHER) lab division. He was awarded the inaugural LAD Fellowship to continue working on rapid design of domain-specific hardware accelerators using AI agents for HLS design.

Sharif Shameem is the founder of Lexica, a company building creative tools backed by state-of-the-art generative models. Previously, he worked on Debuild, a low-code tool powered by language models. Before that, he built Vectordash, a peer-to-peer GPU cloud backed by Y Combinator. He lives in San Francisco and spends his free time experimenting with software design, researching genetics and longevity, and trying to build the future. He can be reached on Twitter at @sharifshameem or via email at samin100@gmail.com. He tries to respond to every message he receives.

Seth Purcell helps founders build and lead exceptional dev teams. He fights complexity for a living. Over twenty years, he has led software teams in a variety of roles and industries. He believes engineering, product management, design, security, marketing, and operations are all different flavors of the same fundamental approach. He enjoys building great teams and cultures. His career goal has always been to do work he’s proud of, with people he admires, for a good purpose.

Alex is a Senior Research Scientist on the AGI Safety and Alignment team at Google DeepMind. His research interests include deep reinforcement learning and agents. Previously, he conducted research in robotics. He graduated from the UC Berkeley Computer Science program in 2016, where he did undergraduate research in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. He was an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Outside of machine learning, he enjoys complexity theory, theoretical cryptography, and mathematical logic. In his free time, he plays card games and video games, including Magic: the Gathering and Dominion. He is a puzzlehunt enthusiast and has helped write multiple hunts, including MIT Mystery Hunt 2023.

Benyamin Limanto is a Christian who believes being Christian is a daily process of growing to be more like Christ. He describes himself as an ordinary boy with an extraordinary God to serve. He is a geek who likes instant noodles and playing Minecraft. Benyamin works full time as a Software Engineer. He is a contributing author at TahuTek, a Mozillian at Reddit, and contributes to the Joomla repository at GitHub as a silent reader. He also contributes translation at Transifex Virtuamart. He enjoys sleeping, writing articles, coding, and drinking green tea. He can be contacted via email at me@benyamin.xyz.

Alex Elias is a robotics engineer with a Ph.D. from RPI. His work centers on inverse kinematics, motion planning, and control for robot arms and mobile robots. He solves real-world problems with math. His research includes cuspidality, redundancy, and parallel mechanisms. He designed algorithms for 7-DOF elastic-joint arms to service satellites in orbit. He led development of 5 mobile robots for tent manufacturing and designed a GUI-based hybrid motion and force controller for robotic deep rolling.

Paul Smith is a software engineer and computer programmer living in Evanston, IL. He has been developing websites and applications professionally for more than two decades. He was a leader of the “tech surge” that fixed HealthCare.gov. He co-founded and was the founding CTO of Ad Hoc. He is formerly the CTO of Public Good Software. He was the Deputy Director of Technology at the Democratic National Committee from September 2011 through February 2013 and worked closely with the Obama For America 2012 campaign. He co-founded EveryBlock in 2007. He co-founded Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail in 2003 and continues to serve on the board. He intermittently attended St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he studied physics and philosophy. He is originally from Maryland.

James O'Claire is the author of a personal website where he shares his analysis of mobile B2B trends. His work includes research on SDK usage across a large number of apps. He has investigated AI-generated apps and their use of SDKs and libraries. James also explores topics such as AI companies, personalization in ChatGPT, and self-hosting data. He has written about mobile trackers, Contabo VPS, and Android data endpoints.

Basil Labib is a senior at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, pursuing a B. Tech in textile engineering and a M. Tech in computer science and engineering. He is advised by Prof. Srikanta J Bedathur. He is passionate about making AI systems safe for humans. He was a research fellow at Impact Academy last summer. Previously, he was the Deputy General Secretary of the Board for Student Publications and a member of DevClub, Blockchain Society, and ARIES. His interests include psychology, philosophy, economics, technology, science, art, and design. When not working, he enjoys quizzing, watching films, and listening to Urdu rock music.

Timothy Nguyen is interested in how things work, mathematical elegance, and clear thinking. He received his B.S. and Ph.D in mathematics from Caltech and MIT. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (2011-2014) and then a Visiting Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (2014-2017). During these years, his research interests expanded into high-energy physics, where he investigated mathematical problems underlying quantum field theory. Most notably, his work provides a formulation of perturbative path integrals that simplifies and corrects prevailing conventional treatments. Since mid-2017, he’s been working on machine learning in industry. Presently, he is at DeepMind where he works on both fundamental research and solving real-world problems using deep learning. He grew up in the San Francisco bay area and currently lives in London.