Hi 👋. I have a lifelong obsession with programming, mathematics, and technology. I love creating things and exploring abstract problem spaces. I'd classify myself as a polyglot full-stack engineer. I have the most experience with TypeScript and Rust, but I've also enjoyed many other languages and tools, and always love to learn more.
I'm the creator of ValueScript: https://ValueScript.org.
- ValueScript - A Dialect of TypeScript with Value Semantics
Ashley Davis is a seasoned software craftsman, entrepreneur, and author, bringing over 25 years of software development experience that encompasses coding, team leadership, and company founding. His extensive background spans startups to major global firms, while his contributions include writing and open-source coding. Currently the CTO at Deployable and is the creator of Data-Forge Notebook, an innovative desktop application for JavaScript and TypeScript exploratory coding and data visualization.
- How to cheat at testing in JavaScript (and still have great tests)
Previously I've built hundreds of npm packages that together get 500 million installs a month. The past few years I've been primarily working on Dorothy, a dotfile ecosystem that you can find at https://github.com/bevry/dorothy
- Dorothy, dotfiles for automated devops
- Auto-publish JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js/Deno packages
Hello, I'm Blake. I love software development, it's the job I always wanted and I'm lucky to still be able to do it two decades later. I have a keen interest in the practice, culture and history of our profession, and am a passionate advocate for the sublime intersection of quality, simplicity and velocity in the solutions we produce.
I'm currently working as a Tech Lead at Redbubble on a team responsible for preview rendering, foundational data services, admin frontends, and legacy system wrangling, using a heady brew of JS/TS, Ruby & Go.
- "Nobody ever got fired for 'npm install'"
Daisy is a full-stack developer and full-snack devourer based in Narrm/Melbourne. She was the Conference Director of PyCon AU 2023 and PyConline AU 2020, and is enthusiastic about well-designed APIs and dresses with pockets. She is more scared of you than you are of her.
- From futons to functions: the principles of good API design
Daniel is a Team Lead at Nextgen Group. He's been developing web software for over 10 years now, with special interests in Domain Driven Design, Typescript, and software for Democratic Deliberation.
- Message Schema Validators
- Intro into Canvas & Games Development
Julian has been coding for yonks. He's been teaching synthesizer classes for yonks too!
This is one of his special talks where he teaches coding AND synthesizers!
- Bits, Bytes and Beeps: Reverse Engineering a MIDI Protocol
- Karaoke
Liam likes to learn things, which makes software development the perfect career. After many different roles in the technology industry he is now a Principal Software Engineer, working on Seq - the centralized structured logging server.
He has studied software engineering, mathematics and business and has twice been on a boat that sunk. He does not have a favorite anything.
- Centralized Telemetry for JavaScript Diagnostics
A full-stack developer who's pretty good at design and knows how to communicate with people? Who is this guy? I'm Marty, developer, entrepreneur and bootcamp teacher based out of Melbourne.
I developed my first website over 20 years ago, in primary school. It was a Homer Simpson fan site called 'Homercool', I built with Microsoft Word, and it had a flash menu in case you're wondering why I don't drive a Lamborghini.
More recently things have gotten serious, with my focus being on healthcare - building software to help with vaccine logistics, pre-conception genetic carrier screening and, in my current role, epilepsy management and diagnosis.
I'm also the solo developer on a project called Anycamp, which was featured as iTunes App of the Day in Australia in 2019 🎉 (twice).
While I was at Rome2rio I went on a ux and split testing bender - you can see some of the results of those experiments at http://usabletravel.com. I've also had a great amount of fun teaching coding at LeWagon in Melbourne which was one of my biggest learning and growth experiences.
- Incrementally improving large legacy codebases with betterer
Matt is the CTO of Mom's Friendly Development Company on the sunny Gold Coast of Australia. To his everlasting shame he has been falling upwards through the rungs of acadamia, obtaining his PhD from Bond University in 2011.
His software company has varied interests in everything from the construction industry and infrastructure in general through to medical research and big data.
- Bun: The Background, Upsides and Negatives
Hello! My name's Matt, and I'm from Brisbane, currently based in Sydney. I currently work as a full-stack software engineer on the Growth team at Atlassian.
- Metrics and tech tricks: an introduction to running web experiments
Got it, Steve. Here's the revised bio:
More than just a software dev, I'm a tech generalist with a knack for getting things done. I lead the Refactor team on the Gold Coast and have had my hand in everything from IoT innovations to blockchain ventures. Beyond coding, I've always been keen on supporting our local developer community and fostering discussions at Gold Coast TechSpace. If you're into tech or just curious, I'm always up for a good conversation!
- Beginners Guide to Geospatial