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Bios for CWG Leads + Members
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
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
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
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?)
- Enthusiasm. I like to help everyone learn.
- I really like Go, I use it at work for a container networking open source project.
- Pranks ;)
Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?)
- Core team member @ GoBridge
- Organizer @ Go Remote Meetup group with 1200+ members and 23 meetups in a year. ( #remotemeetup in Gophers slack, remotemeetupgo on twitter)
Your favorite thing about Go:
- Easy on eyes :)
The one thing you'd change about Go:
- vendoring
What's something you'd like to accomplish in this group: (feel free to look at the issues for ideas if you're stuck)
- Spread Go knowledge across geographical boundaries (especially to those who don't have local Go meetups, resources)
Twitter Handle: Gunjan_Patel1
Favorite Green Food: ~broccoli~ jk. Grapes
Bank account info.... Routing number: 221.. nice try Cassandra 😂
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
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
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:
- About the language: interfaces
- About the community: nice and welcoming people!
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
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
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
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:
- core team member at GoBridge
- author of a Go tutorial for beginners
- instructor at workshops introducing and teaching Go
- Berlin User Group meetup organizer
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
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?)
- writer/editor
- organize, teach, mentor at local workshops
- gopher plushie photographer
Go-related extra curriculars: (what groups and organizations are you already associated with?)
- Edmonton Go meetup organizer (January 2014-present)
- Authoring Get Programming with Go to help make Go approachable to hobbyists and scripters
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)
- Establish Go locally (help spark GoBridge workshops, WWG, etc.)
Twitter Handle: nathany
Favourite Green Food: avocado
👋 👋 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
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?
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 :)
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
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 🍻).
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: 🥑
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!
