# Introduce yourself šŸ‘‹ **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 9, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51 "2024-12-09T15:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Modular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/modular/32/17_2.png) [@Modular](https://forum.modular.com/u/Modular)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/1 "2024-12-09T15:57:38Z")
Thanks for stopping by! Letā€™s get to know each other. Reply to this thread with: - Your name - What brought you here - A random fact about yourself - Anything else youā€™d like to share! ---
**Author:** ![Caroline](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/caroline/32/8_2.png) [@Caroline](https://forum.modular.com/u/Caroline)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/2 "2024-12-09T18:25:43Z")
Hey all! My name is Caroline and Iā€™m Modularā€™s community manager šŸ˜ƒ I live in the greater Boston area with my husband and two cats (cat tax attached). Random fact: Iā€™m currently watching Silicon Valley for the first time from start to finish. ![cat](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/modular/original/1X/0dc158aa43a3a8c6ac7ed07d3fbd75263aeac538.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![lesoup-mxd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/lesoup-mxd/32/585_2.png) [@lesoup-mxd](https://forum.modular.com/u/lesoup-mxd)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/3 "2024-12-09T18:44:07Z")
Hi) My nameā€™s Max, 18, and I am a Computer Science student at University of Nicosia, currently on my 2nd year) I picked mojo up on my birthday in September, and found it an interesting project for being both compilable and runtimeble) The memory safety and types seem logical and fluid, once you take time to adjust coming from C++ thatā€™s taught and Python thatā€™s in our lazy parts of the brain) Currently Iā€™m figuring out networking in mojo and creating a little educational game šŸ˜€ Random fact: I 3d model to release stress ---
**Author:** ![Dasor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dasor](https://forum.modular.com/u/Dasor)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/4 "2024-12-09T19:18:48Z")
Hey Everyone, Iā€™m Dasor and Iā€™m a Computer Engineering student (on my third year) I got interested in Mojo/MAX because a professor whom I work with told me about it and we are looking how we can leverage it in our HPC research group. Right now, Iā€™m running some benchmarks and seeing how MLIR is being used to provide the best speedups possible. Iā€™m also looking forward to seeing how mojo will run on accelerators since is a big part of our research group. ---
**Author:** ![IvoB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@IvoB](https://forum.modular.com/u/IvoB)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/5 "2024-12-09T19:48:12Z")
Hi all! I am Ivo, a retired software engineer, lecturer and writer of books on programming languages. I find this language so fascinating since it was made public. Iā€™ve just started a book project for Manning called ā€œMojo in Actionā€. I am confident Iā€™ll get/find expert answers here on all Mojo questions I could have in this project. ---
**Author:** ![owenhilyard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/owenhilyard/32/41_2.png) [@owenhilyard](https://forum.modular.com/u/owenhilyard)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/6 "2024-12-09T20:05:12Z")
Hello Everyone! Iā€™m Owen Hilyard, one of your volunteer moderators. Iā€™m a CS PhD student focusing on hardware accelerated distributed systems, more specifically around accelerated networking and data movement. Iā€™m also a former (I stepped down when I started my PhD) [DPDK](https://www.dpdk.org/) maintainer. I have fairly strong interests in accelerators (not in the ML sense, think more like Intelā€™s QuickAssist), heterogeneous compute (CPU, GPU, FPGA, etc all working on one problem), databases and distrusted systems. ---
**Author:** ![Zbornak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/zbornak/32/46_2.png) [@Zbornak](https://forum.modular.com/u/Zbornak)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/7 "2024-12-09T20:13:21Z")
Hi there, my name is Mark and I am an iOS developer hoping to get into the world of ML. I am from South Africa and Mojo is my current obsession. Random fact: I am a gold medal-winning bagpiper! ---
**Author:** ![Zbornak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/zbornak/32/46_2.png) [@Zbornak](https://forum.modular.com/u/Zbornak)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/8 "2024-12-09T20:22:18Z")
Silicon Valley is fantastic! Might I also recommend ā€˜halt and catch fireā€™? Itā€™s a great computer-based show, on Amazon Prime I think! ---
**Author:** ![Caroline](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/caroline/32/8_2.png) [@Caroline](https://forum.modular.com/u/Caroline)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/9 "2024-12-09T20:27:02Z")
oh Iā€™ll have to check that out! thanks for the rec! ---
**Author:** ![Rahul\_Das](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@Rahul\_Das](https://forum.modular.com/u/Rahul_Das)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/10 "2024-12-09T20:29:54Z")
Hi , I am Rahul . I am interested in Mojo Gpu Capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![martinvuyk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/martinvuyk/32/48_2.png) [@martinvuyk](https://forum.modular.com/u/martinvuyk)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/11 "2024-12-09T20:30:48Z")
Hi everyone! Iā€™m Martin. I like building machines and making them do cool stuff. Iā€™m a Mechatronics Engineer, but work as a data/ML engineer and business analyst. Iā€™m aiming to contribute enough to Mojo for it to become the next-gen fusion of C and Python. And when I say C, I mean C not C++. I want Mojo to become the next infrastructure language that runs the world for the next 150+ years, and that means making it run doom on brain-cells if necessary šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![lesoup-mxd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/lesoup-mxd/32/585_2.png) [@lesoup-mxd](https://forum.modular.com/u/lesoup-mxd)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/12 "2024-12-09T20:36:45Z")
Big goals) Let me know if you need some manual labour:) ---
**Author:** ![jack.clayton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/jack.clayton/32/57_2.png) [@jack.clayton](https://forum.modular.com/u/jack.clayton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/13 "2024-12-09T23:31:55Z")
Hi Iā€™m Jack Clayton, started off as a Modular community member very interested in Mojo, my day job was converting ML pipelines from C++/Python to Rust when Mojo was announced. The vision resonated with me so I built some learning resources, and then joined Modular as a Developer Advocate. After a year I transitioned onto the stdlib team, I love working on Mojo and helping to make GPU programming more accessible. ---
**Author:** ![sa-code](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/sa-code/32/27_2.png) [@sa-code](https://forum.modular.com/u/sa-code)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/14 "2024-12-10T06:20:02Z")
Hey everyone! My name is Samay but you can also call me Sam. I just switched from being a manager for an ML Engineering team to a Principal ML Engineer at Zalando in Berlin. I work on a repo that implements Apache Arrow in Mojo when I find the time: [GitHub - mojo-data/arrow.mojo: Apache Arrow in MojošŸ”„](https://github.com/mojo-data/arrow.mojo) IMHO Mojo has a lot of potential to modernize the dataframe ecosystem and Iā€™m here for it! ---
**Author:** ![msaelices](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@msaelices](https://forum.modular.com/u/msaelices)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/15 "2024-12-10T11:37:54Z")
Hello everybody! My name is Manuel, and Iā€™m an experienced (aka old) Python programmer who works building AI products related to real-time voice and Chat. When I saw the Mojo announcement I could not be more excited, so I started to contribute to the stdlib, mainly focused on improving the language ergonomics from a Python programmerā€™s point of view. I am developing some third-party Mojo modules like mojo-websockets to hopefully unlock the power of RT APIs. I am also interested in integrating Mojo into my company, especially when we can call Mojo packages from Python. ---
**Author:** ![billw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/billw/32/73_2.png) [@billw](https://forum.modular.com/u/billw)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/16 "2024-12-10T16:25:08Z")
Hi everyone! Iā€™m Bill, and Iā€™m a Developer Advocate at Modular. You might recognize me from the [video about Magic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xp1JpNMnLY). I have a very similar story to @jack.clayton ā€” I was working on ML pipelines at my previous job, and Modularā€™s message resonated with me, so I applied to work there. Iā€™m really excited to show everyone what weā€™ve been up to and help yā€™all learn about it. I live in Chicago, so any fellow Chicagoans on here, hit me up! ---
**Author:** ![bez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/bez/32/77_2.png) [@bez](https://forum.modular.com/u/bez)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/17 "2024-12-10T17:47:00Z")
Hi, Iā€™m Brian and I work on the MAX Engine at Modular. I just recently moved to Redmond a couple weeks ago šŸŒ§ šŸŒ§ šŸŒ§. Funnily enough, I ALSO worked on ML pipelines like @billw and @jack.clayton in the past, but at a previous internship. I graduated from my masters program this year where I worked on multi-tenant GPU sharing. It was while working on that project when I felt the fragmentation of the existing ML ecosystem first-hand and learned about Modularā€™s approach to tackling it! ---
**Author:** ![shashankp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/shashankp/32/74_2.png) [@shashankp](https://forum.modular.com/u/shashankp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/18 "2024-12-10T19:47:31Z")
hey all! Iā€™m Shashank, an experienced Developer who works on building web apps. I came to Mojo-verse from Jeremy Howardā€™s demo, as Iā€™m also a fast.ai student. Iā€™ve recently taken up sketching ([Shashank Polasa (@shashankpolasa) ā€¢ Instagram photos and videos](http://instagram.com/shashankpolasa)) Excited to learn and use the language that can go high level or low, as much as the problem needs. ---
**Author:** ![tk-the-mojician](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/tk-the-mojician/32/87_2.png) [@tk-the-mojician](https://forum.modular.com/u/tk-the-mojician)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/19 "2024-12-11T00:36:05Z")
Hey everyone! Iā€™m Tyler, I work on the performance team here at Modular. Iā€™ve been working on high-performance systems and advanced hardware accelerators my entire career, from IBM to Lightmatter and now at Modular. I take it personally if thereā€™s any software in the world that runs faster than Modularā€™s, so if you find any issues please feel free to send them my way!! ---
**Author:** ![andre1sk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/andre1sk/32/89_2.png) [@andre1sk](https://forum.modular.com/u/andre1sk)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51/20 "2024-12-11T07:55:46Z")
hey all! I am Andrei mostly working on cybersecurity type things for day job (Endpoint/EDR/XDR) and a whole bunch of personal projects in my spare time. Was hoping for a while someone would do Rust style features with Python syntax and better ergonomics so extremely exited about Mojo. [Next page](https://forum.modular.com/t/introduce-yourself/51.md?page=2)