Engineer Websites

Gregory Szorc is a software developer with a focus on Python, Rust, and build systems. He has extensive experience with Python, particularly CPython, and has shared his knowledge on optimizing Python performance. His work includes projects like PyOxidizer, which aims to improve Python module importing and application distribution. He has contributed to Mercurial and has experience with Firefox build systems. He has written about topics such as open source, code signing, and version control.

Marnetto is a software developer. He is interested in programming language theory, compilers, and formal methods. He enjoys working on challenging problems and learning new things. He is currently working on a new programming language. He also enjoys reading, hiking, and playing video games.

Rakhim is a staff engineer at IQM Quantum Computers. He is always working on various side-projects and writing about them. He has an occasional non-spammy newsletter with updates about his projects, ideas, and thoughts about technology and programming. His projects include Minifeed, Exotext, and Textpod, among others. He is the author of "Quantum Computing For Software Engineers", "Foundations of Clojure", and "Conscious Attention". Rakhim has given talks on topics such as full-stack quantum computing and genetic programming. He blogs at rakhim.exotext.com, sharing his thoughts on technology, programming, and life.

Mayx, also known as Mabbs, is interested in programming and ACGN. Mayx is skilled in writing scripts in Python, JS, and Bash. Mayx's blood type is B and their zodiac sign is Leo. Contact information includes Wechat & Telegram: unmayx, Phone Number: 15209678869, and Email: i@mayx.eu.org. Mayx also has a Mastodon and About.me account.

Karthinks collects notes on karthinks.com. Karthinks writes to be able to think, covering topics such as avy, elfeed, emacs, gptel, latex, notmuch, orgmode, popper, and treesitter. Karthinks's work includes explorations of tool use with gptel, fringe matters, Emacs window management, RefTeX in Org Mode, and various Emacs-related topics like persistent prefix keymaps, structural editing, and LaTeX previews. Karthinks also delves into the Notmuch email client and shares Emacs editing tips.

Cidoku, also known as Cid to friends, is interested in religion, mythology, mathematics, logic, philosophy, nature, art, and the occult. Cidoku is captivated by the unusual and forgotten and seeks to bring the good back. Cidoku believes that everything is connected, beauty is objective, making art brings us closer to the divine, the creative process is an act of discovery, the contemporary world is harmful, materialism is false, the reconciliation between man and woman is of utmost importance, romanticism is key, and that there is no single path to the truth, though some paths are better than others. The mascot of cidoku.net is the white-haired witch, Shirogami.

Markus Himmel is a software developer with a background in mathematics. He is interested in formal verification, algorithm engineering, ILP solving, and topology. He works as a Research Software Engineer/Tech Lead at the Lean FRO. In his free time, he is a mathlib maintainer. He can be reached by sending him a message on Zulip or sending an e-mail to his first name at his employer’s website.

Phil is a Staff AI Engineer at Hugging Face, where he helps companies adopt and implement Machine Learning and Open Source. He is passionate about democratizing artificial intelligence through education and open-source. Phil is a frequent speaker, teacher, and writer about Machine Learning, MLOps and Transformers. Before joining Hugging Face, he was a Lead Data Scientist at a leading AI company, where he helped build and deploy large-scale machine learning systems.

Alex Gaynor is a software resilience engineer based in Washington, DC. He cares about building systems that work and has experience in the government, private sector, and open source. Alex has been very involved in open source, both writing code and serving as a director of both the Python Software Foundation and the Django Software Foundation. Originally from Chicago, he spent a few years living in San Francisco. He likes delis and bagels.

Oleg Kutkov is an embedded systems engineer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a focus on software and hardware hacking. His expertise includes Linux kernel and driver development, as well as embedded platforms such as AVR, STM, NXP, QCA, and Raspberry Pi. He has experience in reverse engineering, electronics, and radio. Oleg's interests extend to astrophysics and space. Oleg holds a CS master’s degree from Kharkiv National Aerospace University (2005-2011) and completed an edX MIT online course in Aerospace Engineering. He is currently a Senior Embedded Engineer at Ubiquiti Labs Ukraine, working on the AirMax project. Previously, he worked at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Yandex LLC, and SunBay Innovations LTD. Oleg is a free software contributor and has been a member and lecturer at space and physical conferences.

Nick Winans works at Roblox, where he develops their Design System, improves libraries like React, and supports accessibility. He also runs a niche wireless DIY keyboard company called Nice Keyboards, designing low-power wireless parts at Typeractive.xyz and polishing the DIY customer experience. He can be found on GitHub (Nicell), via email at nick@winans.io, on Discord (nicell), on YouTube (TheNicell), and on LinkedIn.

Martín Soto is a research scientist on AI Alignment at the UK government’s AI Security Institute. He develops new research agendas to mitigate catastrophic risks from future AI, with a current focus on automated Alignment. Before this, he worked with Owain Evans on AI self-awareness and did AI risk modelling with the Center on Long-term Risk. He has published research in Mathematical Logic and Decision Theory.

Samuele Amato is a 19-year-old developer who enjoys working with low-level systems. He shares some of his projects on GitHub, ranging from small C utilities to OSINT tools. Beyond programming, he likes writing and has a strong interest in philosophy and biology, which influence how he thinks and creates.

Chris K. W. graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Data Science, in the College of Letters & Science. They previously worked on platform engineering, distributed computing, observability, and container orchestration at Anyscale. Chris is currently on sabbatical. In their freetime they enjoy doodling with their fancy printer, reading (with recommendations for Vonnegut, Ted Chiang, and Terry Pratchett), and playing competitive Pokemon. They can be contacted at <thissite.xyz>@gmail.com.

James Bornholt is a senior principal engineer on the S3 team at Amazon Web Services. He works on the S3 Tables analytics service and S3 Vectors vector storage service, open-source clients like Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and S3 Connector for PyTorch, and backend storage systems including ShardStore. He also develops the Shuttle framework for testing concurrent Rust code at AWS and elsewhere. Before AWS, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in formal methods, programming languages, and systems, with a focus on making systems software faster and safer using automated verification and synthesis techniques. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington. His work has received best paper awards from SOSP, OSDI, ASPLOS, and EuroSys.

Aras Pranckevičius can read and write computer code. He writes a blog on programming and stuff. He runs a game development Mastodon instance at mastodon.gamedev.place, where his user is @aras. He is also on Twitter as @aras_p. Aras has been contributing to Blender since 2022. He worked on the Unity game engine between 2006 and 2021. Occasionally, he does talks and writes articles on graphics. He has spare time projects on his website and on Github. nesnausk! is his demoscene stuff.

Anders is a Fullstack Developer, Product Engineer, and Startup Founder. He has spent most of his career building consumer facing apps. He does consulting work on Clojure, JVM, SQLite, product design, rapid prototyping and performance tuning (with a focus on vertical scaling). He is an Open Source contributor to hyperlith and sqlite4clj. He has created fun demos such as Game of Life (Multiplayer) and One billion checkboxes (Multiplayer). He is also a speaker.

Justin Cartwright is a Software Systems Engineer with a background in automotive powertrains, IoT, smart buildings, and functional safety. He currently lives in Chicago, IL and works as a Software Engineer at Fennec Engineering. When he is not in front of his keyboard, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, exploring new places, and getting a good run in. His wife and her family are from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After spending a couple years living down there, he has a new appreciation for Havaianas and will never turn down a Pastel de Queijo. He can be contacted at cartwright.76@gmail.com. He can also be found on GitHub, Medium, and LinkedIn.

Stephen Barrack is an aspiring techno-wizard who aims to improve the way users, hardware, and software interact with each other. He uses his programming knowledge and soft skills to facilitate how people interact with computers and how programmers interact with business partners. Outside of work, he codes on his GNU/Linux servers and repairs and repurposes old electronics. When he is avoiding screens, he spends his time doing Gregorian chant, hiking, playing tennis, reading, and playing table-top games with friends & family.

Konloch is a Lead Software Engineer (Full-Stack) with a deep passion for reverse engineering and low-level computing. He has been actively coding since 2008, with Java being his preferred language for personal projects. His background in reverse engineering has provided him with extensive experience in a variety of languages, including Java, C, and x86 Assembly, as well as creating and working with domain-specific languages. He maintains Konloch.com as a wiki and source of documentation for his various projects. The majority of his software is open source and he welcomes contributions and critique.

Josh Beckman is a Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify, building a visual programming platform for merchants and improving the interfaces for Shopify developers. He lives in Chicago. He is an engineering leader specializing in complex systems design and delivery at scale. He has a background in high-velocity startup environments. He leads multiple teams within Shopify’s large engineering organization to deliver highly complex interfaces at scale and speed. He focuses on being a technical expert who can advise teams and drive technical design decisions in complex systems. He is particularly excited about integrating AI and LLMs into software development practices and building systems that make these technologies accessible to the public. His email address is josh@joshbeckman.org.

Shashank is an engineer who used to work on large-scale intelligence systems, crafting Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps solutions, primarily Recommender Systems for online learning. He is now studying High Performance Computing at Georgia Tech and intends to combine ML and HPC to work on super large scale intelligence systems. He enjoys discussing games, maximizing fun, cult-building, machine learning, computers, or how to build companies. He can be contacted via email or LinkedIn. Mindy the cat supervises all operations.

Cesar Aguirre is a software engineer, lifelong learner, language enthusiast, and avid reader. Based in Colombia, he works remotely as a C# backend engineer and technical writer. With over 10 years of experience, he specializes in building APIs and backend code with .NET technologies, mainly C#, ASP.NET Core, and SQL Server. He helps teams grow high-quality, maintainable, and performant backend code. Cesar has worked in public services, electronic invoicing, and reservation management as a full-time employee and independent contractor. He shares his learning and programming experiences on his blog, which he considers his own time capsule. He is a cat owner, vim user, plain-text lover, and Zettelkasten practitioner. In his free time, he enjoys reading books and learning foreign languages.

Franz Balzke is an electrical engineering student. Franz likes noodles in different shapes, cats, video games, and coffee.