Satish Talim
Here's a list of Gophers. All Gophers are awesome!!
Source: http://www.gophercon.in/
Rob Pike is a Distinguished Engineer at Google, Inc. He works on distributed systems, data mining, programming languages, and software development tools. Most recently he has been a co-designer and developer of the Go programming language. Before Google, Rob was a member of the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, the lab that developed Unix. While there, he worked on computer graphics, user interfaces, languages, concurrent programming, and distributed systems. He was an architect of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems and is the co-author with Brian Kernighan of The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming. Other details of his life appear on line but vary in veracity.
Creator of memcached, OpenID & LiveJournal.
Member of the Go team.
Andrew Gerrand works on the Go Programming Language at Google Sydney. He has written dozens of articles about Go, and given many talks and workshops at conferences around the world. He is the co-author of A Tour of Go, and is the fourth most prolific contributor to the Go project. He is passionate about software quality, and believes Go is a unique tool for building reliable software at scale. Before Go and Google, Andrew wrote software for Internet companies.
Organizer GopherConIndia.
Founder RubyLearning.org.
Go and Ruby Hobbyist.
Director JoshSoftware and Maybole Technologies.
Author and Trainer.
Dave is an Australian speaker, blogger, and open source author. He co-organises the Sydney Go Users group and has been an active contributor to the Go project since February 2011.
Russ Cox has worked on the Go programming language at Google since 2008. Before working on Go he developed Google's Code Search, which let programmers grep through the world's public source code; he wrote the search engine for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences; and he hacked at Bell Labs on the Plan 9 operating system. He earned his AB and SM from Harvard in 2001 and his PhD from MIT in 2008.
William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Studios in Miami, FL, a mobile and web app development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go In Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net and the organizer for the Go and MongoDB meetups in Miami. Bill is focused on Go education and through his new venture GoingoGo Training, Bill continues the cause by working with individuals and groups who want to take their Go knowledge and coding skills to the next level.
Francesc Campoy Flores joined the Go team in 2012 as Developer Advocate after several years as a Python and C++ developer. His mission is to make Go useful and fun.
Gustavo works for Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu, and has been contributing to the Go language and community for almost as long as the language has been publicly known. He's the author of a number of well known packages such as the MongoDB driver, goyaml, gocheck, pipe, and many others, and is also the technical lead that designed and brought the juju orchestration framework to life within Canonical.
Jiahua Chen is a Gopher, web application developer and open source author, who is also the creator of Go Walker, Gopm, Gogs and Macaron. He is very active on the GitHub and named himself "coding addict”. Besides, he is a video course maker and publisher as verified teacher at NetEase Cloud Class and UCAI, his mission is to inspirit more people to learn Go in China.
Kelsey Hightower is a System Admin with over 10 years of experience in making IT problems disappear using the power of Unix, programming, and empathy.
Ben is an open source software developer focused on behavioral analytics, distributed systems, and data visualization. He has started several popular, open source Go projects including SkyDB, go-raft, and megajson. He is also a core contributor to CoreOS' etcd project.
John Graham-Cumming is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.
He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications.
He can be found on the web at jgc.org and on Twitter as @jgrahamc.
If you've heard of him at all, it's likely because in 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the mistreatment of British mathematician Alan Turing.
He is a licensed radio amateur.
Pravin is a programmer geek with high interest in cloud computing. He is well versed in architecture and designing of High Volume Distributed Systems for PaaS (Platform as a Service) and BaaS (Backend as a Service). As the lead of the Go and Ruby communities in New Delhi, India, he organizes several Meetups activity. Currently, he is focused on his book "Go In 7 Days". He is also one of the GopherConIndia organizers.
Baishampayan "BG" Ghose is CTO/Co-founder at Helpshift Inc. BG is a career functional programmer with exposure to a wide variety of programming languages and paradigms. His areas of interests are Semantics of Programming Languages, Distributed Systems, Software Design and the intersection of Software, Culture & Society.
Blake Mizerany after starting his career as a developer at a handful of Fortune 500 companies, Blake became one of Heroku's first hires, focusing on research, development, and distributed systems engineering for the next five years. He is the creator of the Ruby framework Sinatra and co-creator of the distributed data store Doozer. Blake is an active member of the Go community, and passionate about ruthlessly simplifying developer experiences. You can often find Blake evangelizing about the things he loves around the world, riding his bike all over San Francisco, or scaling rock walls. He recently joined the team at CoreOS.
Adrian Zankich is the "Serious Programming Guy" at The Hybrid Group, and the project leader for Gobot. he is well-known to the open source community from speaking at RubyConf, RubyKaigi, MagmaConf, LARubyConf, and other tech conferences. A Los Angeles native, Adrian has worked on Telematics-based web applications and has explored a wide range of technologies. From Go to Ruby to JavaScript, cloud computing, and firmware development, he has integrated many different systems in his client work, as well as his many open source contributions to Gobot, Cylon.js, KidsRuby, and other projects.
Derek Collison is the founder and CEO of Apcera, a San Francisco-based company building the modern enterprise IT platform. oday, he leads the company toward turning that vision into reality. With numerous software patents and frequent speaking engagements, Derek is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, and emerging cloud platforms. He lives in San Francisco.
Karan is a Go enthusiast from India and author of the EMBD framework. An ex-ThoughtWorker, he is currently bootstrapping a startup where one of the heavily used languages is Golang. Also helping organise GopherConIndia as part of the core team
Mark Bates is the founder and chief architect of the Boston, MA based consulting company, Meta42 Labs. Mark spends his days focusing on new application development and consulting for his clients. At night he writes books, raises kids, and occasionally he forms a band and “tries to make it”. Mark is the author of three books, “Distributed Programming with Ruby” (2009), “Programming in CoffeeScript” (2012), and “Conquering the Command Line” (2014). He also runs the weekly Golang screencast site, www.metacasts.tv
Matthew has been a hacker since he was teething. He specializes in GO, Ruby and Scala. His most notable projects were porting Bloomberg.com to ruby of rails from scratch. Building real time ad platforms in scala at Tapad. Most recently building the largest financial instant messaging server on the planet from scratch in GO with a small team for Thomson Reuters. In his free time he likes to hack arduinos and scuba dive. He recently spoke and runs the Go Meetup in Bangkok. Matthew splits his time between New York and Bangkok leading teams in both locations.
Mike Gehard is a software engineer at Pivotal Lab. He was a part of the team that wrote the logging platform for Cloud Foundry and helped move the Cloud Foundry CLI tool from Ruby to Go. His latest adventure was as an instructor at gSchool, a 24 week developer training program that teaches complete programming beginners how to effectively translate requirements into code. When he's not sitting at the computer, he's out exploring the great outdoors around Boulder, CO.
Ron Evans is a software developer who has been active in the free and open source community for over 20 years. As "Ringleader" of The Hybrid Group, he helps clients solve some of their most difficult technical and business problems. Ron has been a keynote speaker or presenter at conferences such as Maker Faire, GopherCon, GoGaRuCo, RubyConf, FutureRuby, Ignite, L.A. Ruby Conference, Scottish Ruby Conf, and MagmaConf. Ron is an active contributor to many open source projects and created the award-winning KidsRuby, free software to help teach Ruby programming to kids.
Cory LaNou is an instructor at gSchool and focused on creating workshops and classes for Go. He is also the co-organizer of Denver Gophers, one of the worlds largest Go meetups.
