search

golang / cwg

Community outreach Working Group
132 stars 21 forks source link

Bios for CWG Leads + Members #15

Open cassandraoid opened 7 years ago

cassandraoid commented 7 years ago

Lets get to know each other!

It's important to know who specializes in what or who's involved in established org, so that we can better assess what our group can truly accomplish. We appreciate you sharing this information with us! If there's anything you'd rather not disclose, don't fill it in!

### Please fill out the following info in a comment: [note, this information is public :)]

Name:

Location:

Company:

Title:

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?)

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?)

Your favorite thing about Go:

The one thing you'd change about Go:

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck)

Twitter Handle:

Favorite Green Food:

Bank account info.... just kidding :-D

spf13 commented 7 years ago

Name: Steve Francia

Location: NYC

Company: Google

Title: Go team PM / Open Source Architect

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?) I'm on the Go core team and a member of the project leadership. Outside of Go I have a lot of experience with open source organizations having done similar things for MongoDB, Drupal, Docker & Hugo. I'm also pretty friendly.

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?) I'm a lead of the DXWG. I'm an often organizer of GopherCon & GothamGo.

Your favorite thing about Go: Made programming fun again

The one thing you'd change about Go: I kinda hate the for := range syntax.

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck) Help more people take leadership roles in the project.

Twitter Handle: spf13

Favorite Green Food: Spinach

cassandraoid commented 7 years ago

Name: Cassandra Salisbury

Location: San Francisco, CA

Company: Netlify

Title: Dev Relations (and all things marketingy)

What're skillz you bring to the table: I build developer communities and brands for a living (content, community, communications...get a lot of devs to love and use all the stuff, + find out why they don't like it). Dev relations (building evangelist teams), branding & messaging, content marketing, education-based growth strategies, partnership and biz dev, product dev strat/ PM'ing (I ❤️ GitHub Projects), event organizing, gopher plushie collecting (d'oh!), karaoke singing (jingle writing).

Go-related extra curriculars: GoBridge chapter lead, GoSF meetup organizer, close to WWG

Your favorite thing about Go: The Gophers (people first, plushies second)

The one thing you'd change about Go: Lack of organization and communication in the global community.

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: Better communication between organizers, better distribution of Go to the ecosystem (seeing Go not just at Go conferences) to drive adoption and careers available.

Twitter Handle: cassandraoid

Favorite Green Food: Avocado

gunjan5 commented 7 years ago

Name: Gunjan Patel

Location: San Francisco, CA

Company: Tigera (Project Calico)

Title: Software Engineer

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?)

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?)

Your favorite thing about Go:

The one thing you'd change about Go:

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck)

Twitter Handle: Gunjan_Patel1

Favorite Green Food: ~broccoli~ jk. Grapes

Bank account info.... Routing number: 221.. nice try Cassandra 😂

davecheney commented 7 years ago

Name: Dave Cheney

Location: Sydney, Australia

What're skillz you bring to the table: blogger, meetup organiser, public speaker, mentor, conference organiser.

Your favorite thing about Go:

I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken research worker and a well-studied mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler. Who'd have guessed sophistication bought such noise? Quote: -- Richard P. Gabriel

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: help Go programmers feel they are part of a global community.

Twitter Handle: @davecheney

ymotongpoo commented 7 years ago

Name: Yoshi Yamaguchi

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Company: Google

Title: Developer Advocate

What're skillz you bring to the table: blogging, translation, meetup/conference organizer, public speaking, outreach to local Gophers.

Go-related extra curriculars: GoCon/local Go meetup organizers, Engineers in Go user companies,

Your favorite thing about Go: standard development environments, practical but minimum features.

The one thing you'd change about Go: vendoring

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: To make local communities to other regional and global ones.

Twitter Handle: @ymotongpoo

Favorite Green Food: Pepper

ernesto-jimenez commented 7 years ago

Name: Ernesto Jimenez

Location: London, UK

Company: GoCardless

Title: Engineering Manager

What're skillz you bring to the table: Training, mentoring, public speaking.

Go-related extra curriculars: Gophers Slack, Google Developer Experts, and Go London meetup when possible.

Your favorite thing about Go:

The one thing you'd change about Go: less manual writing of boilerplate code

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: Bring more Gophers in and help them feel welcome and part of the community.

Twitter Handle: @ernesto_jimenez

Favorite Green Food: Edamame

mikespook commented 7 years ago

Name: Xing Xing

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Company: Kiwikrane

Title: Software Developer

What're skillz you bring to the table: Blogging, translation, training, mentoring, public speaking.

Go-related extra curriculars: Gophers Slack, Golang Chinese WeChat Groups, and Go Auckland meetup when possible.

Your favorite thing about Go: Simple but power enough

The one thing you'd change about Go: So many magic tips which import complex into code

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: make better organised online and offline communities, let more companies using Golang and its design philosophy.

Twitter Handle: @mikespook

Favorite Green Food: Kiwifruit

bketelsen commented 7 years ago

Name: Brian Ketelsen

Location: Tampa, Florida, USA

Company: Microsoft

Title: Principal Developer Advocate

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?)

Community organization, conference organization

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?)

Tampa Go Meetup Gophercon

Your favorite thing about Go: Easy to Read

The one thing you'd change about Go:

Remove the concept of GOPATH

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck)

Help people get on board with Go faster!

Twitter Handle: @bketelsen

Favorite Green Food: spinach

Pisush commented 7 years ago

Name: Natalie Pistunovich

Location: Berlin, Germany

Company: GrayMeta

Title: Software Developer

What're skillz you bring to the table: meetup organiser, public speaker, conference organiser, social media accounts maintainer

Go-related extra curriculars:

Your favorite thing about Go: The code is simple and clear

The one thing you'd change about Go: GOPATH

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: More tools for communities to build themselves and share knowledge

Twitter Handle: @nataliepis

Favorite Green Food: Seaweed Salad

nathany commented 7 years ago

Name: Nathan Youngman

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Company: Agile Animal

Title: Software Developer

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?)

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?)

Your favourite thing about Go: goroutines

The one thing you'd change about Go: anything that makes Go more approachable

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck)

Twitter Handle: nathany

Favourite Green Food: avocado

mbbroberg commented 7 years ago

👋 👋 late to the party due to some account issues but I'M SO IN HERE NOW 🙌 🙌

Name: Matthew Broberg

Location: Portland, OR

Company: Sensu Inc

Title: VP of Community

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?) podcaster, public speaking, career counseling, blogging, lots of experience leading maintainers of open source project, branding & messaging, content marketing, documentation writing

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?) Gopher Slack, Go Meetup PDX, Twittering at #golang

Your favorite thing about Go: testing as first-class citizen, the end of tabs vs spaces arguments, unbelievably cool community of people

The one thing you'd change about Go: $GOPATH needs to Go (and excited to see it do so)

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck) Continue to help developers get their unique story of using Go out into the world through events, blogs and podcasts!

Twitter Handle: @mbbroberg

Favorite Green Food: brussel sprouts

arjanvaneersel commented 7 years ago

Name: Arjan van Eersel

Location: Bulgaria

Company: Balkan Technologies

Title: Owner / developer

What're skillz you bring to the table: meetup organizer, translator, speaker, contributing to regional and local outreach

Go-related extra curriculars: Go Bulgaria meetup, organizer of the Fosdem Go devroom since 2017, making the Go tour available in Bulgarian (work in progress), hyper ledger fabric enthusiast

Your favorite thing about Go: General language structure and composition

The one thing you'd change about Go: Moving of data between structs

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: Contribute to developing a strong Go community in South Eastern Europe and help out where ever else I can.

Twitter Handle: @arjanvaneersel

Favorite Green Food: Spinach

Bank account info.... just kidding: Banks? Aren't we all bitcoin users nowadays?

danicat commented 7 years ago

Name: Daniela Petruzalek

Location: Brazil

Company: globo.com

Title: Senior Software Developer / Technical Leader

What're skillz you bring to the table: (what do you do that could help this group succeed?) meetup organizer, speaker, writer, workshop instructor, mentor, open source contributor and anything else that is not listed but I may learn how to do it :)

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?) WWG organizer, GDG organizer, open source projects contributor, speaker, workshop instructor (Introduction to Go) and conference organizer (The Developers Conference Porto Alegre - Golang Track).

Your favorite thing about Go: top 1 - the community, but also the look and feel of the code, with it's C roots but "upgraded" to modern standards.

The one thing you'd change about Go: I would trade make and append and other magical functions for generics any time [sorry!]

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck) I want to help making Go reach it's full potential as a mainstream programming language.

Twitter Handle: @danicat83

Favorite Green Food: detox juice :)

GoesToEleven commented 7 years ago

Name: Todd McLeod

Location: Fresno, California

Company: Greater Commons

Title: Founder & Teacher

skillz I am great at teaching and on-boarding, humanizing education, and creating entertaining and engaging learning. I have been teaching online at the college and university level since 1997. I studied online education at UC San Diego. I helped found and run the "Online Teacher Training Program" which taught all of the college faculty in Central California how to teach online.

Go-related extra curriculars golangbridge.org

favorite thing about Go: Ease of programming.

one thing you'd change about Go: Add machine learning to the standard library.

something you'd like to accomplish in this group Help others learn to code. Grow the Go community. Ignite passion and potential in others. Share good values. Inspire others to be generous and to help others.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Todd_McLeod

Favorite Green Food: green beer

AlekSi commented 7 years ago

Name: Alexey Palazhchenko

Location: Moscow, Russia

Company: @Percona

Title: Tech Lead

What're skillz you bring to the table: Local community organization.

Go-related extra curriculars: @GolangShow podcast co-host, Golang Moscow meetups organizer and speaker, golang-ru Slack moderator, open source contributor.

Your favorite thing about Go: Simplicity (is Complicated)

The one thing you'd change about Go: Shadowing.

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: More interconnections between local Go communities.

Twitter Handle: @paaleksey

Favorite Green Food: Bamboo beer (cheers @GoesToEleven 🍻).

campoy commented 7 years ago

Name: Francesc Campoy

Location: San Francisco is where I pay rent

Company: Google

Title: Developer Advocate

What're skillz you bring to the table: Leading and help members do their job, my position as member of the Go team at Google can help with this. Also I've been told I tend to be quite friendly. Finally, my YouTube series justforfunc seems to be a good example of scalable efforts that benefit the whole community.

Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?) I play in an orchestra ... if that counts?

Your favorite thing about Go: The community! <3

The one thing you'd change about Go: I want to use emoji as valid identifiers. 

func 🔪(s string) []string { return strings.Fields(s) }

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck) I want to empower every member of the community to make their voice heard and feel as a useful part of the community no matter their background.

Twitter Handle: @francesc

Favorite Green Food: 🥑

ashleymcnamara commented 7 years ago

Name: Ashley McNamara

Location: Austin, TX

Company: Microsoft

Title: Principal Developer Advocate

What're skillz you bring to the table:

Go-related extra curriculars: In addition to making Gophers - I'm a speaker, a workshop instructor, and lead for Women Who Go Austin

Your favorite thing about Go: Hands down, the best thing about go is the community.

The one thing you'd change about Go: I'd love to see more beginner resources for learning Go.

What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: My goal is to grow the community, but not just any community, a community of knowledge sharing and inclusiveness.

Twitter Handle: @ashleymcnamara

Favorite Green Food: Wasabi!