Ingrid is an engineer currently working for Intercom in Dublin, Ireland. She has been coding for more than 12 years and discovered her passion for distributed systems and infrastructure 3 years ago. She is a conference speaker, an active member in the Python community and loves mentoring and helping with…
Jason Lengstorf (@jlengstorf) is a developer at IBM and a consultant on matters of life and work balance. He blogs and writes at lengstorf.com and speaks at events about his experiences with burnout and what he did to get out of that vicious cycle. We’ve caught up with him at…
Lyza Danger Gardner (@lyzadanger) is an Open Web Engineer at Bocoup and co-founder of Cloud Four. She enjoys figuring things out and blazing new trails in the areas of web-connected devices, web standards, accessibility and emerging browser APIs. She especially likes writing, speaking and teaching about technology. At the Smashing…
Tessa Mero (@tessamero) is a Global Speaker, World Traveler and Mentor. She is a Developer Advocate at @cisco and organizer of @SeaPHP, @pnwphp and @DevNetCreate. She collects all of this at TessaMero.com During a recent visit in Berlin, I was lucky enough to have her come to the Microsoft Office…
Cyrille Fauvel (@fauvelcyrille) sports the title of Sr. Worldwide ADN Sparks Manager at Autodesk and works on all new, creative and innovative ideas including the Forge service. At the Shift conference in Split, Croatia, Chris Heilmann took some time to ask Cyrille a few questions about what his department in…
Martin Splitt (@g33konaut) is a senior software engineer at Archilogic but prefers the term “Open Web Cheerleader”. He contributes to a lot of open source projects. He gives quite a few talks and workshops, writes articles and blogs at 50linesofco.de. At the Confoo conference in Montreal, Canada, Chris Heilmann took…
Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks) is a designer, developer and prolific presenter from England. He just finished writing “Inclusive Design Patterns“, a book on how to write more accessible interfaces for common issues we face in interaction design. At the Reasons conference in London, England, Chris Heilmann took some time to ask…
Mahdi Shadkamfarrokhi is the Curriculum Manager of All Star Code in New York.All Star Code empowers young men with the skills, networks, and mindsets they need to create new futures through technology. They work towards building a world where every young man has the confidence to dare greatly, the safety…
Una Kravets (@una on Twitter) is an UI engineer at @digitalocean and a community builder, technical writer & cohost of @toolsday. She previously worked at @ibmdesign and posts her travels on Instagram. You can find her on the web at una.im. She loves art and creating it by using clever…
Barbara Ondrisek (@electrobabe) is a developer and bot creator from Austria, and owner (minder) of the Mica, the Hipster Cat chat bot. We invited her to chat with Chris Heilmann about creating bots, how to deal with issues of privacy and security and what’s important when you want to create…
