Putting things in order is hard. So we iterated over a map (which as of Go 1.0 is unordered) and got..
Peter Kieltyka peterk
Chief architect behind Horizon Games. Having co-founded both NuLayer and Pressly, he's passionate about creating awesome teams and powerful products. A lifelong gamer, coder, and an open source and decentralized evangelist, Pete's committed to building a better world.
Topher Bullock topherbullock
Topher recently joined Shopify as a Staff Developer and is based out of their Toronto, Canada office. Shopify is a Canadian based e-commerce company whose mission to make commerce better for everyone and has helped 800,000 businesses sell $100B through the platform.
Topher has experience working on distributed systems, infrastructure automation, Concourse, Cloud Foundry, Service Broker APIs, and Mobile Apps.
In 2017, he was selected as one of Canada's Software Developer Top 30 Under 30.
Dmitri Shuralyov dmitshur
Software engineer and an avid gopher. He strives to make software more delightful.
Coming from a game development and graphics/UI background where C++ was used predominantly, he discovered and made a full switch to Go six years ago, which lead to increased developer happiness.
In his spare time, he's mostly working on software development tools and exploring experimental ideas. He enjoys contributing to open source, fixing issues in existing tools and the Go project itself.
Aaron Wislang as_w
Aaron is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft with over a decade of software development, systems architecture & security experience across the major clouds, development platforms and industries. His current areas of focus include Open Source, Go, Containers and Kubernetes. He joined Microsoft from Rackspace where he was a Senior Systems Architect & Software Developer on the Azure Product & Engineering team. Aaron and his wife currently live in Toronto, Canada with their two boys and their turtle.
Jessica Xie
Jessica Xie is a Software Developer at Shopify, Toronto, where she worked on various projects around the APIs with high throughput, low response time, and high availability, both on the server and client side. She studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Previously, she worked as a Software Developer for Chango, an ad tech company that was bought by Rubicon Project. Chango's ad bidding systems handle more transactions while having a lower response time than Twitter.
Matt Layher mdlayher
Matt Layher is a Distributed Systems Engineer at Fastly, and a regular contributor to a wide variety of open source networking applications and libraries written in Go.
Denise Yu deniseyu21
Denise is a software engineer who occasionally wears a product management hat at Pivotal R&D in Toronto. Denise has previously delivered conference talks on topics ranging from continuous delivery to functional programming to scaling company culture.
She enjoys learning about distributed systems, release engineering, and low-level Linux kernel programming, and when she's not coding, she is often doodling sketch notes that break down technical concepts into digestible pieces at https://deniseyu.io/art
Nicole Tibaldi nicoletibaldi
Nicole is a frontend developer at Manifold. She cares deeply about improving tech hiring, agile processes, and bridging the gaps between product, design, and engineering. Nicole has previously worked for New York based travel company Tablet Hotels, and spent a short stint in the consulting space. Prior to her pivot to the tech industry, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in music performance and spent five years working in banking.
Jon Bodner jonbodner
I am a software engineer, lead developer, and architect and enjoy presenting and discussing open source, technology trends, and the future of software engineering. Over the past 20 years, I've worked in just about every corner of the software industry including on-line commerce, education, finance, government, healthcare, and internet infrastructure.
I am currently a Senior Software Engineer at Morning Consult, a global technology company revolutionizing ways to collect, organize, and share survey research data to transform how decisions are made.
James Bowes jrbowes
James Bowes is the CTO of Manifold. Over his 14 year career he has worked for companies like Red Hat and Salesforce as a senior member of the technical staff. James has scaled early stage startups and also managed and sustained large organizations. James is mainly a backend developer, focusing on thorny concurrency issues, but whenever he can, he likes to build infrastructure, try out cool new software, help his peers learn, and make people laugh.
Christine Dodrill theprincessxena
Christine is a Senior Site Reliability Expert at Lightspeed POS with over half a decade of systems administration, architecting and implementing complicated services at scale. She just left Heroku where she was a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Services team.
Her other hobbies include teaching meditation, video games, drawing and writing.