Leader Websites

Scott Spence is an application team lead overseeing a large Svelte and SvelteKit codebase centered around an AI product. He leads a team of developers and ensures best practices in the development lifecycle. Previously, he was a developer advocate, partnering with companies to create content. Scott is the founder of OES Technology, providing scalable Svelte solutions for businesses. He creates blog content and educational videos. A second-career developer, he re-skilled from a VBA analyst developer role into web development. He has been working in Svelte and SvelteKit for 5 years, holding workshops and organising events with the Svelte Society London group. Scott has over ten years of experience working for large corporate organisations and has worked as a web developer in government digital transformation, creative digital and the content management space.

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.

Si Jobling is a podcaster, speaker, leader, and organiser with 30 years of experience in digital products. He is an experienced leader in tech, having worked with international brands like Rightmove, ASOS, Alibaba Group, UEFA and Yahoo!. Si is currently an Engineering Manager at Rightmove. He has also created community and podcast products around shared passions such as House Finesse, Multipack and On The Side. Since 2016, Si has focused on leading others in tech, adopting Agile principles and methodologies. He speaks at conferences and meetups and coaches others.

Meghan Raftery creates new systems, sparks change, and connects ideas. Her work spans education design, thought leadership, and community building. She enjoys connecting people through innovative frameworks and deep conversations. Meghan has founded initiatives like Edjacent, designed learning frameworks at Education Design Lab, and explored new approaches at Defined Learning. She thrives in thought leadership roles, sharing concepts that spark transformation. Meghan loves bridging boundaries and bringing together people, organizations, and ideas. Books are at the heart of who she is; she volunteers at a local independent bookstore and shares recommendations on Storygraph. Meghan believes in meaningful discourse, autonomy, and building environments where excellence is recognized. Her career path is about designing systems for impact while staying true to curiosity and joy.

Adam Keys is a builder, leader, writer, and developer. He is interested in exploring what's possible with software and teams, particularly with the rise of coding agents. He is experimenting with the intersection of leadership and individual contributor work, focusing on the activities that produce software for people amongst teams. Adam is prototyping ideas, such as Bobcat, a document editor, to explore scripting and data models. He is interested in problem-solving, both technical and social. He can be contacted via a form or during his Office Hours.

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.

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.

Martijn van Dijk welcomes visitors to his corner of the internet. He sometimes writes his thoughts there. He has posts and tags on his website. He also lists his work experience.

Damian Bacchoo has experience as a school teacher, army officer, and entrepreneur. Currently, he is a dad, school principal, and occasional blogger. He shares his thoughts on topics he encounters in his daily life, particularly concerning wellbeing, belonging, education reform, culture, and leadership. He is the author of Serendipities.blog, where he has written 92 posts and reached 126 subscribers.

Travis Schmeisser was born near Chicago and grew up in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. He currently lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with his partner and their Chihuahua-mix named Bear. He enjoys comic books, music, live performances, simplicity and making things for the web. He was influenced by the punk/hardcore/DIY scene. Professionally, he is a hands-on software design leader with 24 years of experience leading initiatives for startups to large companies. His work focuses on rapid and wide-ranging iteration, elegant minimalism, cross-team collaboration and hyper-usable workflows.