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José Castro, Engineering Manager and Magician

Hi, my name is José Castro, and I currently hold the title of Engineering Hiring…

Grady Booch, IBM Fellow on the Celtic Harp and Dulcimer

Hi, my name is Grady Booch; I am an IBM Fellow, and Chief Scientist at IBM Research for Software Engineering, as well as Chief Architect for a project called Watson/M which involves an AI effort for embodied cognition, in effect…

Matteo Aliffi, Software Engineer and Poet

Sometimes, designing software is like creating a piece of art. At the beginning, everything is a puzzle, like dozens of words that run through your mind. Step-by-step, they find their place into the final shape of a creation that everyone can enjoy. For…

Bruno Martins, Software Developer and Musician

There are four main things that I took from music into my career:

First, being a member of a band helped me to understand what it means to work as a team. Everybody needs to have his or her own well-defined part on the…

Aidan McCullen, Technology Consultant and Podcaster

Hi, my name is Aidan McCullen, and I am a disruptive innovation consultant at Katawave, a business imagination studio based in Dublin. My career in digital technology only began about nine years ago. Before then I was a professional Rugby…

Jennifer Keane, Product Owner and Cake Baker

Anyone who does not have a baking disaster story is not a baker! Probably the most stressful almost-disaster I have had was making a cake for my nana’s 80th birthday. I thought a hexagonal cake would be beautiful, but I did not count on how difficult…

Mark Reidy, Growth and Operations Manager on Running and Cycling

Hi, my name is Mark Reidy, and I am currently working on an Ecommerce start up called Bellanove as the head of growth and operations. I was born in the US, just outside of Washington DC. I moved to North Carolina when I…

Albert Floyd, Developer and Comedian

My first time doing stand up was a good experience. I wrote up a 10-minute routine, and went to an open mic in Barcelona called El Medi, a bar where I usually go that runs opens mics for stand up comedy. My friends told me that I should try it out, and I finally…

Angela Kravcevich, Software Engineer and Body Painter

Hi, My name is Angela Kravcevich, and I am a Dublin based Software Engineer. I am originally from Klaipeda, a town on the coast of Lithuania. I moved to Ireland with my family when I was 12 years old. We originally moved to a little town…