Parallel Passion

Linda is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s picture book about the whimsical world of computers, as well as the founder of Rails Girls, a global movement to teach young women programming in over 260 cities. She loves Muji, Zelda Fitzgerald, software and sparkly things.

14: Piotr Szotkowski

September 13th, 2018 | 58 mins 47 secs

mechanical keyboards, organizing, photography, public speaking

Piotr is a web developer with 20 years of experience who started dabbling in Ruby a dozen years ago, initially for his PhD thesis and later in his work as an assistant professor at Warsaw University of Technology. In his other life Piotr runs Rebased (a Ruby and JavaScript software house), develops a system for operating solar power plants, speaks at various Ruby conferences, organizes Warsaw Ruby Users Group and co-maintains the Bogus and Reek gems. His parallel passions include photography, mechanical keyboards and extremely slow jogging.

13: Aaron Cruz

August 30th, 2018 | 55 mins 6 secs

chatbots, cooking, freelancing, organizing, programming languages, public speaking

Aaron used to cook food for a living but now is a code monkey who also organizes meetups, conferences, and hackathons. He sometimes speaks at conferences and has picked up skateboarding in some kind of midlife crisis.

12: Jure Čuhalev

August 16th, 2018 | 59 mins 1 sec

breadmaking, coffee, cooking, entrepreneurship, freelancing, organizing, vegan, yoga

Jure Čuhalev is an entrepreneur, freelance web developer, certified Yoga teacher and enthusiastic about vegan food.

11: Katherine Wu

August 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 9 mins

ask vs. guess, canning, culture, education, jam, parenting, public speaking

Katherine aka KWu is a Ruby developer at Heroku who likes efficiency, making things from scratch, and holding strong opinions.

10: Don Goodman-Wilson

July 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins

electrical engineering, magic, model trains, philosophy

Don is a philosopher-engineer who advocates for platforms and developers at GitHub.

9: Rayta van Rijswijk

July 5th, 2018 | 1 hr 58 secs

kickboxing, organizing, yoga

Rayta is a gym rat, a developer, a serial event organizer, with more energy than a power plant.

8: Primož Cigler

June 21st, 2018 | 56 mins 13 secs

artificial intelligence, astrophotography, health, surfing, wordpress

Since he built his first website in primary school, Primož had a strong passion for web development. When not visiting conferences, giving talks or organizing local development related events, he focuses on fast and highly optimized online solutions. He's a windsurfer, snowboarder and beer lover in his leisure time.

7: Ajda Pretnar

May 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 43 secs

curling, cycling, data mining, improv, orange, running

Ajda Pretnar is a computational anthropologist, a tester, doc writer and an occasional developer of Orange data mining software. She teaches data mining online (YT) and offline. When she is not working, you can find her biking up a hill, running around a forest or sweeping in front of a curling stone.

6: Jonan Scheffler

May 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 38 secs

home automation, live streaming, machine learning, magic the gathering, podcasting, robots

Jonan is a developer advocate at Heroku and an aspiring astronaut. He believes in you and your potential and wants to help you build beautiful things.

5: Tomaž Zaman

April 26th, 2018 | 56 mins 35 secs

flying, freelancing, paragliding, pricing, running, skydiving, wordpress

Tomaž is the founder Codeable, where he’s responsible for product development and promotion. You might find him at a WordPress conference or UX workshop, where he’s trying to learn about users’ habits as much as possible. In his free time, he spends time with his wife and four children, jumps out of perfectly working airplanes and enjoys a good movie.

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