CrystalConf 2023

Full-time Crystal lang developer in Bright.
Come to this language after > 7 years of C++ experience.

Beta leads the development of the Crystal language for more than two years. But there's more to it: not only he develops and lead teams, he also conducts research on a variety of topics, and teach in advanced topics of computer science. His passion is developing and understanding programming languages.

A crystal-core member

Carl Harrison, known in the community as “meatball”, lives in Sweden and is a full-time student. He is the Crystal maintainer on Exercism 4, which is a free learning platform that offers various exercises to learn programming. Outside of Crystal he also programs in Python, Ruby, Elixir, Js, Ts, and Swift.When not programming, he likes to do various 3d art and 3d printing as well as play video games.

Living in Stockholm, Sweden working as a developer at 84codes, mainly as a developer and project lead on the LavinMQ team.

I am a computer scientist who loves all facets of this job. I worked as a trainer, hot-liner, QA engineer, operator, software engineer, craft coach. Software quality assurance is one of my biggest concerns. My contributions to crystal go in this direction.

Software Dev. Passionate tinkerer.

Ever since I started using the Crystal programming language I always wanted to conjure something useful for the community, As time passed I was able to grow with the language and develop a deeper understanding of low level programming. All of the accumulated information and knowledge has been a positive change as in I am able to create interesting open source projects and spread the abilities of the Crystal programming language.

Core team member of the Lucky Framework. @jwoertink on github

Computer technician from the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP), future Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from the same institution, currently Software Engineer at Nimble, member of the He4rt Developers community and first Brazilian ambassador of the Crystal programming language.

Johannes is principal engineer of the Crystal project at Manas.Tech, driving forward the development of the language, its Open Source community and ecosystem.

After falling in love with Ruby he encountered Crystal and became intrigued by the happy developer experience combined with superb performance.
With steady contributions to the language he eventually became a Core Team member and finally took a full-time position within the Crystal team at Manas.Tech in 2021.

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I am a professional pharmaceutical chemist with a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences, specializing in computational biology. Currently, I hold an academic position at the Universidad Católica del Maule in Chile, where I am a member of both, the Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule (CIEAM) and the Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Química Computacional (LBQC).

My research focuses on modeling biological systems, particularly membrane proteins and proteins in general, using computational methods to elucidate molecular and physiological mechanisms. This enables the design of novel molecules for therapeutic applications.

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Acknowledgments
Thanks to FONDECYT - ANID for postdoctoral grant No. 3210774.
Thanks to "Centro de Bioinformática, Simulación y Modelado (CBSM) - Universidad de Talca" and Fondequip EQM160063.
This work used resources of the "Centro Nacional de Processamento de Alto Desempenho em São Paulo (CENAPAD-SP)".

Collaborators
Francisco Adasme - Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile.
Leandro Martínez - Universidad de Campinas, Brasil.
Jans Alzate-Morales - CBSM, Universidad de Talca, Chile.

I am originally a Ruby on Rails developer who fell in love with Crystal after it was featured in an issue of Ruby Weekly a few years ago when it was still v0.35.

I currently work for a company that has a Rails monolith that runs most of the US voter registration system and I have been advocating for the slow and steady adoption of Crystal into our tech stack to use in production.

Tech lead at Kagi Search - an ad-free, privacy respecting, paid search engine.