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Slalom BuildThe Build Blog is a collection of perspectives and viewpoints on the craft of building digital products today, written by the technologists that build them. By builders, for builders.
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The Build Blog is a collection of perspectives and viewpoints on the craft of building digital products today, written by the technologists that build them. By builders, for builders.
Editors
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Tim KnappEngineering Practice Director at Slalom Build. Software Architect, Tech Culture Champion, Dad, Amateur Foodie. Managing Editor of the Slalom Build Blog
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Blake NorrishQuality Engineer, Software Developer, Consultant, Pessimist — Currently Sr Director of Quality Engineering at Slalom Build.
Andy Whitehouse
Solution Owner for Slalom Build, where she helps clients develop and implement custom IT solutions.
Kelli Mohr
Spend my days in the Cloud. Keep things simple and efficient. Software Engineer. DevOps Enthusiast. Agile Evangelist. Amateur farmer.
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Tim WhitneyTim is a Practice Area Lead with Slalom Build in Chicago. He helps clients with architectural vision, product development, and engineering thought leadership.
Erin Gold
Experience designer at Slalom Build. Focused at the intersection of strategy and social impact.
Tanya McGinnity
Multiclass Creative Generalist Elf with 14 Intelligence, 13 Wisdom & 16 Charisma. Low constitution but a big heart.
Luis Hermosilla
Lead Experience Designer. Digital wanderer. Based in London. Passionate about all things design. Music, art and photography enthusiast. www.luigiht.com
Writers
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Matt RitterSoftware engineer & Solution Principal at Slalom Build in Chicago, spicy food enthusiast, & amateur clockmaker. Editor of the Slalom Build blog.
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Tim WhitneyTim is a Practice Area Lead with Slalom Build in Chicago. He helps clients with architectural vision, product development, and engineering thought leadership.
Slalom Build editor
Tim KnappEngineering Practice Director at Slalom Build. Software Architect, Tech Culture Champion, Dad, Amateur Foodie. Managing Editor of the Slalom Build Blog
Dustin Duclo
Mobile Architect for Slalom Consulting focusing on native Android, native iOS and Xamarin solutions.
Stenio Ferreira
Solution Architect, interested in DevOps automation, SDLC culture change, and cloud platforms. Trying to master “Seven Nation Army” in the electric guitar! :-)
Brian Sokol
Director of Software Engineering @ Slalom Build Chicago. TypeScript, Node, React, and Angular. Contributor to https://medium.com/slalom-engineering.
Paul Bourdel
Staff Engineer/Consultant/Architect. Any views or statements expressed are mine and not necessarily those of my employer.
Stephen Weinrich
Stephen Weinrich is a Software Engineering Director for Slalom Build Chicago currently focused on all things Cloud, DevOps and DotNet.
Jeremiah Dangler
Jeremiah is a passionate technologist at Slalom who drives a culture of curiosity and innovation. His current focus is on microservices using Serverless.
Dustin Duclo
Solution Architect for Slalom focusing mainly on Xamarin, native iOS and native Android with a moving interest towards all things Azure and .NET
Edward Groberski
Senior Architect for Slalom Build focusing on native iOS and native Android solutions.
Hal Deranek
Hal Deranek has been in the testing game for a while, excelling at automation strategy and execution. He currently works for Slalom in Washington, DC.
Matthew Sheppard
Solution Architect at Slalom UK. Software engineering, cloud native architecture/infrastructure & infosec. Cannot be trusted alone with cheese. @justatad
Renan Dias
Leading Security Engineering @ VTS. Follow me for all things Application/Cloud Security. Opinions are my own.
Amarpreet Singh
I'm a Solution Architect and engineering leader based in San Francisco, passionate about exploring new technologies and tackling interesting challenges.
Rob Cummings
Slalom Build SRE Practice Lead (https://www.slalombuild.com/) and co-organizer for DevOpsDays Seattle.
Dan Siwiec
I'm a full-stack software engineer and architect with 15+ years of experience. Also, an IoT tinkerer in my free time
Paul Kirk
Paul Kirk is a product software veteran from Seattle, WA. He is a music lover, vinyl enthusiast, sci-fi reader, and a huge fan of UW football.
Young Chul Kim
Quality Engineering Solution Architect at Slalom | AWS Cloud Practitioner | Lifelong learner
Nelson N
For the last decade Nelson’s been working to improve the quality of any software team he’s a part of. Currently _building the future at Slalom Build
Pierre Nicolas Durette
Montréal-native in Toronto. Engineer. Tech, things, code, automation, design, synth pop, schnauzer.
Diego Garber
Solutions Architect for Slalom Build Chicago currently focused on cloud technologies and .Net Core
Clashofpods
(left to right in photo) Michael Leonard and Jeff Claudon, Solution Architects, Slalom Build Quality Engineering
James Gimourginas
I build, lead, and manage high-performing development and delivery teams to create world-class technology products.
Nick Calow
Data Engineer at Slalom Build. Reader, writer, artist, technician, programmer, other stuff when the need takes me
Cameron Shotwell & Youngdong Kwon
Cameron Shotwell & Youngdong Kwon work at Slalom. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshotwell https://www.linkedin.com/in/youngdong-kwon-590083163
Raphael (Raff) Louis Vitón
We're always building something - let's focus on building what matters most. First things first, Build U. #iamaninnovationproject
Jonathan McBride
Experienced and passionate Quality Champion and Agile Zealot. Currently Director of Quality Engineering at Slalom Build.
George Popescu C
Platform, Data & ML Engineer. Currently with Slalom Build. Student at Georgia Tech OMSCS.
Lauren Howell
Founder of TinyBit creative studio. web producer, strategist, artist, Designer. I observe, appreciate, and create Design.
Nieky Allen
Chicago-based software architect & web enthusiast | NodeJS, TypeScript | https://github.com/dallen4
Mike Wisniewski
Experienced manufacturing pro in TRUMPF lasers, SICK track & trace. Passionate about NVIDIA Omniverse & Instant NGP. Python & Java backend developer.
Susan Libby
Passionate about Agile software delivery processes and methodologies. Love working at Slalom_Build to deliver amazing work for our clients.
Caleb Tonn
At Slalom Build I work in platform engineering. Leading dynamic teams to build scalable & secure solutions. Let's explore ideas together.
Asma S. Gulbaz
A quality engineering leader who possesses years of experience in driving continuous improvement in product delivery, quality and processes.
Rob Koch
Cloud architect with an economics background, history buff. Married to Wendy for 27 years and counting, parent of 3 kiddos!
Rafael Escoto
Data Architect @ Slalom Build. I help build Data Solutions and, love technology. Thoughts shared are my own.
