Hi! I’m Donovan
I work in data primarily, building pipelines, dashboards and helping US startups with their data culture and decision-making and I’m fairly new to erlang
I’m currently helping as a strategic lead at a Stellenbosch-based ( The South African Tech hub ) Startup. ( I work remotely ^^ )
We are building with Erlang on our embedded system <3 , you might have see our founder on here too, Saprrow aka Dale
Between me & Dale we would LOVE to get some insight & support from other Erlang developers, and especially guidance from Senior Erlang devs. Feel free to send me a message if you’re an Erlang developer looking for a project to work on/mentor or feel you have domain knowledge to share or perhaps if you’re looking for a side-gig !
Hello again, all! I’m John from Colorado, USA. I am (still) very much a beginner with Erlang. I hung out here a lot last year when I was starting out. Then life got in the way and I got sidetracked with other things. Again. And to be honest, I was pretty discouraged by the last Advent of Code when, after a lot of studying, I couldn’t understand anyone’s solutions past day one. But I’m back at it again, with much to relearn. I love this community and should have stuck with it while I had some steam going.
I’m Ben Scherrey - software architect, language designer living in Bangkok Thailand. I got exposed to Erlang in the early 90’s when I consulted to Ericsson in Texas. Didn’t do anything with it until much later (after it was open sourced). Was still hard to do “regular” apps and I moved away from it. Big fan of the BEAM. Got re-introduced into it when Elixir first appeared on the scene. Was nice to actually see utf-8 support & I thought the macro mechanism had great potential for making DSLs. Alas, they changed the macro mechanism to require ()'s everywhere which broke 100% of my DSL designs and then I discovered that utf-8 support was actually something Erlang added, not Elixir so I re-discovered Erlang and have looked for opportunities to use it ever since.
Two weeks ago I trained 8 new people on how to use Erlang for backend programming and it went quite well. I suspect we’re going to foster a functional/Erlang presence in Bangkok soon and do some great decentralized/distributed systems.
I’m Magnus Leone, and I’ve been using Erlang since 2008, when I started doing 4G development at Ericsson. The test environment there is mostly Erlang, and I’ve been back and forth in different positions around Ericsson, mostly doing Erlang-related stuff. I did a stint in China, first at Ericsson, partly teaching Erlang, and later quit to teach at a high school instead. Moved back to Sweden in the fall of 2015, and have been working as a consultant ever since. Did 2 years at SAAB with Gripen E, but otherwise I’ve again mostly done Erlang stuff.
My favorite Erlang feature is probably pattern matching - it just makes code so incredibly compact, while at the same time being more readable than other languages. I do sorely miss the ternary operator though!
I’m not a great programmer, but I’m pretty good at explaining things, and I have a decent sense of what good design is. I made an Erlang Binaries cheat sheet for anyone who’s interested.
On my spare time I do HEMA fencing, scuba diving, and photography.
Hello I am yushli. I find this forum is very friendly and helpful. Right now I am just asking questions regarding to Erlang/OTP but hope can contribute back one day.
Hello, I’m mostly an Elixir developer, I dip my toe into the Erlang world pretty rarely TBH, but I see us all part of the greater BEAM family. It’s an excellent runtime with potential that has barely been tapped, and I’m happy to be a part of its future.
Hi!, Torsten from Aarhus, Denmark here. I worked as developer for a few years before ending up as a sysadmin. Back in the day, I had an interest in Erlang - got the first? book by Joe Armstrong and even got it signed by him. Never really used Erlang for anything, but now I want to take it up again, and I have a few things, that could use a rewrite.
Hi I am Arun. I am working as a software developer in healthcare company. we are using erlang as a our backend. so i have logged in this forum to get latest updates, libraries and discuss any issues in development
hi
ali, from canada
my preferred title is systems analyst
my main technical knowledge is databases
i am a big fan or functional programming
for the beam i am interested in elixir and gleam (sorry erlang)
i am also interest in programming languages in general, including by not limited to
ocaml, clojure, zig, factor, f# , rescript , shell scripting languages (bash, pwsh)
But I’m back at it again, with much to relearn. I love this community and should have stuck with it while I had some steam going.
Cheers 
for you!
There wasn’t an emoji for toasting with coffee 