Awesome & Marvelous Amas
AMA → Ask Me Anything
Ask these people anything!
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Sindre Sorhus
- Full-time open-sourcerer. Maker of many npm packages and apps.
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Pascal Hartig
- Polyglot. Engineer at Twitter. Contributor to Yeoman, TodoMVC, WSK.
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Stephen Sawchuk
- Just having fun. Creator of wiredep, youmeyou. Helper of ^.
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Mark Otto
- Designer at GitHub. Creator of Bootstrap.
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Zach Holman
- Developer and speaker. Previously worked at GitHub.
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Kent C. Dodds
- JavaScript dev, open source contributor, community builder, and speaker.
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Simon Boudrias
- Yeoman, Inquirer.js and a bunch of other node modules. Software engineer at Yelp.
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Reza Akhavan
- Engineer at Mozilla. Co-organizer at NodeSchoolSF. Creator of Drywall, Frame, Aqua.
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Wes Bos
- Full stack developer, independent author, speaker, teacher and JavaScripter.
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Anselm Hannemann
- Freelance front-end developer, author of WDRL, co-organizer of Nightlybuild.io.
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Blain Smith
- Partner/Engineer at MadGlory and Odd Networks. Rebel Geek.
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Lewis Cowper
- Former forklift driver. Now web developer.
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Blake Winton
- UX Engineer for Mozilla Firefox, and the author of Whimsy.
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Darrin Henein
- Design Lead for Firefox Mobile at Mozilla, creator of Lastronaut.
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Cassie McDaniel
- Design Director for Mozilla Foundation, cofounder of Women&&Tech, speaker and writer.
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Wenjie Fan
- Front-end engineer for Linux Deepin, blogger of anotherhome.net.
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Maxime Euzière
- Front-end hacker and JS code-golfer.
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Robert Haritonov
- Front-end team lead, SourceJS maintainer and Living Style Guide evangelist.
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Lim Chee Aun
- Product engineer. GitHub stargazer. Anime lover.
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Darcy Clarke
- Developer, Designer, Founder, Mentor & Speaker.
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Vishnu Ks
- Student at IIIT Allahabad. Experimentalist.
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Nick Desaulniers
- Open Source Zealot at Mozilla.
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Henry Snopek
- Front-end developer, university student.
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Mikola Lysenko
- Geometry vagrant.
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Drew Minns
- Designer/Developer and Educator. Lead Developer and Instructor with HackerYou.
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Heather Payne
- CEO of HackerYou, founder of Ladies Learning Code.
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Ryan Christiani
- Lead Instructor and Developer at HackerYou in Toronto.
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Ahmad Nassri
- Head of Engineering at Mashape. Technology Entrepreneur & Dog Lover. Toronto ✈ San Francisco.
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Patty Delgado
- Engineering lead at Refinery29. Avid mentor and developer evangelist, especially for women and minorities.
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Nicholas C. Zakas
- Architect at Box, author, creator of ESLint.
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Lance He
- Full stack developer and speaker.
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Derick Bailey
- Developer and entrepreneur, author and screencaster.
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Andy Jiang
- Customer Acquisition and Evangelist at Segment, maker of things.
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Benny Thomas
- Full stack developer caring about children reading.
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Sebastian McKenzie
- Creator of Babel.
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Rishabh Pugalia
- Full stack engineer. Creator of CSSDeck.
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Matthew Mueller
- Creator of Cheerio, Duo, and a few other node modules.
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DeokHong Kim
- Front-end engineer at NAVER, founder of hackrslab.
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Hugo Giraudel
- CSS goblin, Sass hacker, margin psycho.
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Will Binns-Smith
- JavaScript at Bitbucket. Makes internet things.
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Lauri Tervonen
- CS & SE university student in Finland.
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Matija Marohnić
- From modding Warcraft to frontend design/development and nerdiness for Node.js build tools.
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Kyle Robinson Young
- Makes stuff and likes bears.
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Trent Oswald
- Maker of web things Mashape and nodejs/website.
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Una Kravets
- Front-end developer, Sass things, Dev communities & Open Source Design.
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Chris Missal
- Maker of Internet things in Austin, TX. A goofball, nerd, and OSS lover.
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Acho Arnold
- Full stack web developer with great passion in Social Psychology.
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Rob Furlong
- Maker of cool things with the web, freelancer.
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Honza Bittner
- Student at FIT CTU, Dart lover.
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Jan Sanchez
- Front-end developer. Creator of css-url-versioner, open source contributor.
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Adrián Arroyo Calle
- Currently a student in Spain doing any kind of development which uses C++, Rust, JavaScript and TypeScript.
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Richard Littauer
- Full stack developer, linguist, and sometime digital nomad. Creating with the MIT Media Lab, wrote the Na’vi Dictionary, NodeSchool organizer, The User Is Drunk.
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Nick Johnstone
- Web developer from New Zealand, currently working as a Rails developer full-time. As a side project, I’m making a tool for developing games with no coding required.
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JD Ballard
- Idaho native, Chalk collaborator, sunshine burns us. Likes hypotheticals, dislikes bees.
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Charlike Mike Reagent
- Passionate full stack developer, hacking on ArchLinux. Perfectionist. Revolutionist. Founder of RegexHQ, core member at JSTransformers and part of dwylhq.
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Mohamad Jahani
- Software developer from Iran, mostly working on web backends, *nix servers, electronic devices and most cool stuff you can imagine! A knowledge addict, who’s reading and working 24/7.
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Justin Miller
- Mobile lead at Mapbox, formerly Code Sorcery Workshop (Pukka/Meerkat), photographer, traveler.
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Yitzchok Willroth
- Coder & Rabbi (though seldom at the same time!); Engineering Practice Manager, Grovo; Organizer, ShorePHP & NYPHP; Conference Speaker; Mentor.
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Graham Daniels
- Sr Software Engineer at Refinery29, US Lead for PHPWomen, Host of #NoCapes, Single dad. Brooklyn, NY.
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Jeff Carouth
- Lead Platform Engineer at Liftopia, Co-host of the Loosely Coupled Podcast, mentor, and conference speaker.
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Matthew Turland
- Full Stack Engineer at When I Work, author, mentor, and conference speaker.
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Joe Ferguson
- PHP Dev, Sys Admin, Community Builder, Conf Organizer & Speaker, Maker, Hacker, Tinkerer, Space Geek, Husband. Enjoys craft beers and whiskey. Owned by cats.
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Hamish Friedlander
- Developer, CTO at SilverStripe, human (presumed).
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Chris Tankersley
- PHP developer, system admin, speaker, teacher, sometimes writer, and I play video games on YouTube.
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Deepak Verma
- Full stack developer at Hometrack Australia, AWS Solution Architect, and passionate about photography.
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Dan Abramov
- JavaScript and React hobbyist, creator of React Hot Loader and Redux.
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Daichi Furiya
- Software developer in Japan. I love Android, JavaScript and iOS.
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Maxime Thirouin
- Freelance front-end/UI/UX developer. Open Source addict & compulsive coder.
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Chris Biscardi
- UI lead at Docker. JavaScript. Haskell. Builder of products and tooling.
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Vladimir Agafonkin
- Engineer at Mapbox, creator of Leaflet and a bunch of other open source libraries. Building the future of interactive maps.
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Claudio Procida
- Full stack web developer, mentor, evangelist and speaker. Passionate about painting and photography.
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Zeno Rocha
- Developer Advocate at Liferay.
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Kahlil Lechelt
- JavaScript developer, organizes KarlsruheJS, co-host of the Descriptive Podcast and the Reactive Podcast, vocalist.
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Vadim Demedes
- Node.js addict.
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Raymond Clanan
- Freelance full stack developer at Utopian Concept LLC.
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MK Yuan
- Node.js developer at Alipay.
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Hong Liu
- Freelance full stack web developer and founder of PresentBook.
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Arnaud Benard
- Freelance JS developer and digital nomad.
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Anthony Ramella
- I went from zero to hired web developer in 5 months. I blog about my experiences learning code and working as a junior developer.
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Diki Ananta
- Freelance full-stack developer working with Laravel.
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Steel Brain
- The Rebel™, also a Node.js, PHP and HackLang developer.
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CJ Patoilo
- Front-end engineer, JavaScript evangelist, DEV IO co-Founder.
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Armagan Amcalar
- Head of Software Engineering at unu GmbH. Software architect, entrepreneur, conference speaker, mentor, electronics engineer, guitar lover, singer.
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Breno Polanski
- Front-end software engineer at Meteorite BI.
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Camilo Nova
- Full stack software developer in Colombia.
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Jon Moss
- Rails developer. Average teen. Member of the Ruby on Rails Issues Team.
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Seth Alexander
- Free Code Camper, Burgeoning Dev, all things JavaScript.
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Ariya Hidayat
- VP of Engineering Shape Security, Author of Esprima and PhantomJS.
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Rob Thomas
- VoIP Developer, IPv6 and Security Evangelist, DevOps proponent. Currently at Sangoma.
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Amit Merchant
- Full-stack developer working with JavaScript, PHP and Java.
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William Oliveira
- Front-end developer (Brazilian) working with JavaScript, Angular, Stylus, Gulp, Git, etc. Read more about me on my blog.
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Unbug Lee
- Author of MIHTool and Codelf.
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Tibor Simon
- Electrical engineer, software geek, DSP, iOS, vimmer, guitarist, biker, runner, tiborsimon.io.
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Danilo Vaz
- Front-end developer (Brazilian), working at mLabs with JavaScript, EmberJS, APIs and other cool stuffs. I’m also BeerJS/SJC organizer.
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Adrian Mejia
- Software engineer at Cisco. Blogger at adrianmejia.com. Author of “E-commerce Application built with the MEAN stack”. JavaScript lover. Boston located.
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Jon Kuperman
- I love JavaScript! I blog at Codeplanet, make videos at Nodecasts and podcast at The Web Behind.
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Max Stoiber
- Open source developer advocate at Thinkmill, developing KeystoneJS and ElementalUI. Creator of react-boilerplate, part of React Vienna.
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Joe Lencioni
- Building ImportJS and Diffux CI. Web infra at Airbnb.
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Lindsey Bieda
- Back-end developer, game maker, and hardware hacker.
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Jeroen Engels
- JS developer and open source enthusiast.
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Tim Smith
- Front-end designer, nerd, and recovering coffee addict.
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Sam Verschueren
- Full stack JavaScript developer and open source contributor.
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Haroen Viaene
- Student mostly doing JS, open source everything, creating stuff at bullgit.
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Arjun Mayilvaganan
- Senior Year Student at CEG. Striving to make it as a Full stack developer.
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Kundan Singh
- Full Stack Javascript Developer, Biker, Traveller, Photographer.
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Michael Novotny
- JavaScript developer. Open source contributor. Insatiable learner. Standards and best practices enthusiast. Development is a lifestyle, not a job.
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Artem Sapegin
- Frontend developer at Here, creator of React Styleguidist and passionate photographer.
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Miguel Durán
- Developer of things and stuff at Typeform, creator of React Slidy. Love videogames, embrace StandardJS. Living in Barcelona.
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Chris ‘Freddy’ Getsfred
- Black hoodie aficionado, full-stack developer, JavaScript lover, new open source contributer, former script nerd, former technology instructor.
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Seth Holladay
- A human seeking a full stack of pancakes and software, bug free.
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Nikita Voloboev
- macOS enthusiast, open knowledge evangelist, writer, and an aspiring web developer.
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Sitesh Shrivastava
- About Technology, Quantitative Finance, Products & Extreme Sports.
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Zach Leatherman
- I have a beard sometimes.
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Francis Sunday
- Software Developer based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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Travis Northcutt
- Husband, dad, nomad, PHP developer.
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Olavi Haapala
- Web and mobile developer from Finland.
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Manu Sunny
- Back-end .NET/Java developer.
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Ken Wheeler
- Professional American. Manchild.
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Helen V. Holmes
- Freelance designer and UI engineer.
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Rachel Andrew
- CSS Grid Ask Me Anything. Rachel Andrew is a UK web developer, writer, public speaker and co-founder of Perch CMS.
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Ilya Bodrov
- Author, teacher, consulting developer. Fan of Ruby and Elixir.
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Matt Seemon
- Voice-over artist, karaoke jockey, amateur actor, IT enthusiast.
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Gaurav Mehla
- Full-stack developer, JS coder, open source contributor.
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Hasan Bayat
- Awesome developer. Loves open source.
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Stéphane Hulard
- Open source lover, dad, husband, speaker, teacher, remote worker, full-stack developer who loves playing with PHP.
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Scott Hanselman
- Teacher, Podcaster, OSCON Chair, Developer, Open Source C# and .NET at Microsoft.
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Jürgen Gutsch
- .NET junkie, addicted to web and software development, clean coder, MVP for Visual Studio and Development Technologies.
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Lizzie Siegle
- iOS and web developer, developer evangelist, hackathon hacker and judge, Spectra organizer, racially ambiguous.
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Sami CHNITER
- Microsoft Exchange, Office, Skype For Business, PowerShell developer, blogger, and software geek.
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Mordechai Zuber - Developer, Maintainer, Open Sourcer. Passionate about development.
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Krzysztof Cieslak
- Software developer, consultant, founder of Lambda Factory, author of Ionide, Forge, Fornax, project owner and maintainer of VSCode-Elm, contributor to many OSS projects, international speaker.
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Benjamin Reitzammer
- Developer, ex-CTO, Engineering Manager, Communities.
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Clark Weckmann
- Web Developer, Designer, and Programmer. Specializing in small business websites and blogs.
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Kevin Jalbert
- Developer Lead at Shopify), primarily using Rails and React.
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Sean Killeen
- .NET Lead & Managing Consultant at Excella. Speaker, blogger, tech lead. Would love to talk .NET, modernization, distributed systems, public speaking, musical theatre, and really pretty much anything else.
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Tobias Kienzler
- Physicist, programmer, parent.
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Juha Lindstedt
- Web architect at iDiD. Creator of RE:DOM, Deck of Cards and other open source projects.
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Rifat Nabi
- Front-end developer and open-source enthusiast.
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Md Eftakhairul Islam
- Software engineer, hacker, open source enthusiast and tech blogger at eftakhairul.com.
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Chaitanya Giri
- Full-stack developer, JavaScript <3, tabs over spaces, open source enthusiast.
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Rishi Pithadiya
- Full-stack Ruby on Rails developer in India, open source enthusiast.
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Byungjin Park
- Software Architect, DevOps Engineer, Hacker, Open Sourcer.
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Ali Spittel
- Teaching code, Python and JavaScript developer, blogger.
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Khen Daniel
- Software Engineer. Aspiring Photographer. Hacker.
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Riza Fahmi
- Developer, mentor, speaker. Curriculum Director, Co-Founder Hacktiv8 Coding Bootcamp.
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Sergey Sova
- Rust lover. Mentor. Freelancer. React developer.
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Omar Bahareth
- Head of Software Engineering at Tam, mentor, full-stack developer, currently heavily into Ruby and Elixir, and slowly getting into Go and Rust. Located in Saudi Arabia.
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Addy Osmani - Engineering manager on the Chrome team at Google leading up Web Performance.
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CY Lim
- Full-stack JavaScript digital nomad.
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Hamza Baig
- Full-stack JavaScript engineer. Passionate about Artificial Intelligence.
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Frédéric Harper
- Developer Advocate at npm, former Mozilla & Microsoft one, Apress author, public speaker, #crazycatman & more.
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Emanuele Bartolesi
- Full-stack web developer. Ethical hacker. Beginner triathlete.
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Brad Garropy - Self-taught frontender at Adobe, blogger, streamer, tweeter.
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Fabio Spampinato
- Self-taught full-stack developer passionate about open source and empowering people.
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Eduards Sizovs
- Software architect, blogger, trainer, speaker, and a conference organizer.
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Even Stensberg
- OSS contributor and developer.
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Erdal TAŞKESEN
- All in one developer.
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Frances Coronel - Open source enthusiast, senior software engineer at Byteboard, Corgi mom.
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Wendell Hu
- Front-end developer at Alibaba.
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KimSia Sim
- Independent developer, blogger, owner of business apps agency. Based in Singapore.
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Jim Lesperance
- Passionate full-stack developer, loves dogs, and likes to travel.
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Greg Edelston
- Software engineer at Google. Zen Buddhist and improv lover.
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Chris Otto
- Test Engineer, creator of VSCodeFitNesse and blogger.
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Ahmad Ainul Rizki
- Full-stack developer, part-time open-sourcerer, and interested in functional languages.
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Ale Muñoz
- Developer relations at Sketch, plugin developer, designer & digital toolsmith.
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Imed Jaberi
- JavaScript dev, mentor, open source contributor, community builder, and speaker.
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Arpit Mohan - Distributed Systems Engineer, Java and Golang developer, 3x CTO, blogger.
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TheTechRobo
- Hobbyist Python 3.x developer who corrects grammar so much he loses friends.
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Lali Akhil Raj
- Creating stuff for web & AI.
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Felipe Plets
- Tech lead, open source contributor, and blogger.
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Angelo Pirola
- Microsoft (.NET) Backend Web Developer, GitHub contributor and based in Italy.
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Can Tecim
- Software Engineer, former CTO, TypeScript and Node.js lover, open source contributor, remote worker based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Jan-Hendrik Heuing
- Developer, team lead, CTO, consultant.
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Sarvsav Sharma
- Aspiring green software developer passionate about sustainable coding, specializing in Go.
Ask these organizations anything!
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Edenspiekermann
- Design agency based in Berlin and around the world.
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Code Monkey Health
- Helping developers and others with tips, tricks, recipes and programs focused on Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude and Food LEAF.
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Ruby Taiwan
- Helping developers in Taiwan with any questions. Can ask in English or Chinese.
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DevOps Taiwan
- Helping DevOps engineers with any questions.
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Vim Taiwan
- Helping vimmers in Taiwan with any questions.
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From the Front
- Nonprofit organization behind the “From the Front” conference series in Italy.
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HackCU
- A collegiate hackathon at the University of Colorado that operates a free bi-annual event for students to learn coding or push their skills building things.
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Ansible Taiwan
- Helping Ansible users in Taiwan with any questions.
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IIIT Vadodara
- Open-source organization maintained by college students.
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Nikita Voloboev
- Loves making and sharing things. Building Learn Anything, Enpicom and tools.
Fun: AMAs is a recursive acronym.
License

To the extent possible under law, Sindre Sorhus has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.