amandablum

The Suck Stops Here. I help businesses do it all better through tough love.

marketing for startups, events, sponsorships, marcomm for non profits

Sean Escriva

chef

Sam Livingston-Gray

Rubyist, papa, fair-weather cyclist.

Ruby, programming

Joyce Chan

information retrieval

Kate Bagoy

Design Geek. Oversees UX @wikisway.

design, user experience

Jacob Helwig

All-around geek

Git, Perl, Ruby, Linux, PostgreSQL

rob lusardi

programming, database design and build

Tom Quick

Highly adaptive and dynamic user experience tactician with 10 years of experience in managing high-risk projects, platform migrations, and new product development. Strong command of business, technical, and communication requirements, logistics, and potentialities. Been referred to as “the fixer” – the one who gets wayward projects back on track, surpassing expectations.

project management, client communication, CMS systems, web strategy

Leif Warner

R&D&D. Wires. Tubes. Patterns. Ask me about linked data, graphs, OWL, markup languages, functional languages, and dead languages.

XML, JSON, XSLT, XQuery, XPath, XProc, XForms, RELAX-NG, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Linked Data, Haskell, Scala, functional programming

Tyler Hurst

Actual writer. Domino Street teamer. Inspirator. Opens bananas like a monkey. (almost)barefooter. Has name on shirt. Knows all the words to Baby Got Back.

Business writing, blogging, internet marketing best practices

Ben Newbill

Sr Technical Recruiter at VanderHouwen & Associates. Golf, poker, trips to Vegas. I enjoy helping people throughout the interview process, understanding motivations, and providing perspective.

Interview prep, resume format/modification, Portland tech job trends/analysis, pay ranges for specific skill sets.

Diana Larsen

Partner and Consultant at FutureWorks Consulting LLC @DianaOfPortland on Twitter; AgilePDX coordinating committee; Agile Open Northwest board member

Benjamin Kerensa

Benjamin Kerensa is an internationally recognized open source evangelist, community manager, author and speaker with experience in systems administration, project management and open source development that spans a decade. In April 2012 he joined OpenPhoto where he is a Commmunity Manager focusing on furthering the Open Photo Project. Additionally he is involved in the Ubuntu Community as a Developer and Community Evangelist and is a member of Mozilla’s WebFWD Open Innovation Program where he identifies open source projects that are well aligned with the goals Mozilla aims to achieve with WebFWD. In his spare time Benjamin Kerensa champions social causes through activism and engagement with elected officials in his region.

Ubuntu, Wordpress Development, WP Optimization, Content Delivery, High Level Availability

john melesky

Been programming in Portland for a few years, and elsewhere for a couple-three decades before that.

programming, functional programming, database use, software architecture

Thor Prichard

I lead a team of folks with blended expertise in education and technology to transform the process and practice of teaching in a global society.

Working with the K12 education market.

Grace Ewura-Esi Andrews

Cofounder and communications lead @Wikisway, a Portland based data visualization tech company. Wikisway generates fun and interactive visual graphs based on various types of content.

Social media, Crowdsourcing/crowdfunding, Presenting, Public Speaking

Sam Keen

Programmer at Shopigniter

PHP, General Web Development

Chris Johnson

We make world class, high end demo movies. Nobody does it better. (If you want my blog with sales stuff...http://instigate.me/)

sales, marketing, key account management, CRM,

Mandy McClausky

I'm a front-end designer currently working in web-based software development.

Photoshop, web design best practices/UX, CSS

Prasanna Patil

Annie LaVerdure

best damn dog walker and owner of LVD Media. I live in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

Aimee Fahey

Talent Acquisition Manager at Puppet Labs.

Resume & Interview skills, Career Coaching, Girls in Tech, Students/Interns getting into the workforce

David Wang

live life to the full, dont look back :)

Daniel Johnson

C, C++, Qt, gstreamer, OpenGL, SQL, perl, Linux, Command Line, DNS, email servers, webservers

Cooper Stevenson

Cooper is a leading expert in Information Technology systems for business automation. His award winning designs focus on expanding business intelligence and automation for medium and large industry. He moved Legislation through the Oregon Legislature and has written over ten publications for online resources. He is also featured in CNET News, Linux Today, and Linux.com. Recently, Cooper developed the first automated artificial neural network system for predicting financial securities price fluctuations and business process intelligence.

Project Management, System Administration, High Availability

Brandon Wick

Communications Counsel at McClenahan Bruer Communications

Social Media

Peter Banka

python