Introduce yourself 👋

Hi, my name is bertin, I am 24.
I worked in finance for 5 years, but I realized that I loved technology more than finance, so I started a computer science degree program at university.
I found mojo on the internet early last year and I found it very interesting but there is a lot of concept that seems unclear to me and I hope it will become more obvious soon.

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Hey all, I’m Evan Ovadia, a Mojo Compiler Engineer here! Some of you might know me from the Vale programming language, or my Languages and Architecture blog. I recently joined Modular to help make Mojo the most amazing language in the world, and I’m looking forward to working on it with you all! Cheers =)

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Hey all, I’m Stef, I work on programmability here at Modular! In the past I’ve contributed to the Mojo standard library, I maintain and develop our MAX Graph APIs, and I’m currently working towards making MAX graphs more usable and hackable. Please reach out if you are using MAX Graphs or want to, I know there’s a lot of room for improvement :smiley:

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Hey folks! My name is Austin, I’m a part of the Kernel team at Modular and have been working on GPU performance optimizations, specifically for LLM inference. I’m really excited to collaborate with the community on the future of AI Engineering :heart_on_fire:

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Hi, my name is Robert and I work on the websites at Modular. I have 2 cats, and I live in the SF Bay Area.

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My name is Chris, and I am on the Kernels team.
I used to be active in the Julia community (discourse and open source), but found Mojo better suited to writing high performance software, and in particular am excited to embrace the age of accelerators in computing.

My handsome roommate is named Mocha:

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Hi y’all, :cowboy_hat_face:

I’m David, a former geospatial intelligence analyst :compass: and current geospatial data engineer.:earth_africa::earth_americas::earth_asia: I’m interested in seeing how I can use Mojo :fire:for processing geospatial data, including satellite imagery :artificial_satellite:, point cloud data (LIDAR and RADAR):satellite: , and geospatial graph networks , as well as the more typical vector (point, line, and polygon) data.

I’m also a photographer and would like to use it for processing the gigapixel photographs :camera: I regularly make for my side hustle. :grin:

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Hello everybody,
glad and greatful to be part of this amazing community of like-minded peoples.
I’m [r]d4com aka [r]émy, a seasonal :olive: olive farmer/:construction_worker_man:construction worker and computer nerd living in Spain(:sunny:south),
Really looking forward to finally become a software developer now that Mojo exists :fire: !
Hobbies includes Programming and music, ancient architectures from :hindu_temple: India and Egypt.

I also enjoy learning and teaching Mojo,
:studio_microphone: Lex Fridman interviews of C.L changed my life because that’s how the mojo adventure started for me!

Random fact: enjoyed nearly all Bob Ross :art: painting videos!

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Hi, I’m Brad, a product manager at Modular focusing on the MAX frameworks and models. Prior to Modular, I ran a small robotics startup for a number of years, then joined the Swift for TensorFlow team because I wanted to explore the intersection of machine learning and systems programming languages. After that project wound down, I continued working on automatic differentiation in Swift in the service of creating accurate physics simulations of buildings to reduce their energy consumption.

On the side, I wrote an open source molecular modeler that was one of the first applications on the iPhone App Store (and how I met my amazing wife), as well as an open-source framework for GPU-accelerated image processing. It’s that experience with programming mobile GPUs and Swift that convinced me of the incredible opportunities that MAX provides to advance AI and more. Looking forward to talking more about the exciting things we’re working on!

Here are a couple of my coworkers from Modular’s southern Wisconsin office:

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Hey everyone,

I’m Tyler Hillery, a developer with interests in Mojo. Coming from a Python background, I’m particularly excited about Mojo’s promise of combining Python-like syntax with systems programming performance.

Random fact is that I am a twin!

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Hello everyone!

Name: Jeff Banks

I’ve been following Mojo since it was officially released. The Modular community has been great and I’m plugging in more as of late. I’m a polyglot programmer with years of technical startup to enterprise expertise. I have a keen eye for innovative and game changing solutions.

Rando - I love to snow ski …

Looking forward to contributing more to the community in the future and seeing Mojo and Max evolve in 2025!

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Hi everyone!

I’m Zac, and I work here. I build things like magic and other random bits at modular. Outside work, I have two cute dogs and am famous on TikTok/YouTube. At work, I’m trying to make AI software more straightforward and friendly.

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I guess I should introduce myself now. Hey Modular community, I’m Robert, a senior undergraduate studying data science with a concentration in psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington.

I come from a diverse background—having grown up in the construction industry, attending technical school for automotive and diesel technology, and spending decades as a gamer before retiring from gaming in 2021. I initially majored in civil engineering but shifted to data science after a hiccup in Calculus II lol and because I wanted to apply my skills in more innovative ways towards my strengths.

Currently, I’m focused on building domain knowledge, in academia and industry, and keeping graduate school as an option after graduation. It has been really cool and I am grateful that I get to learn, grow, and contribute to the Modular community through research, development, and helping to build out the Modular stack. :+1:

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Hey there, I’m Josh!

I’m a Modular employee, supporting the graph compiler and runtime as an engineering manager.

You all are an awesome community, thanks for letting me be a part of it! :heart:

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Howdy, I’m Geordie.

I’m an Aussie living in Berlin (for over 10 years now) and I’m the CTO at flowkey, a leading app to teach yourself piano. We were maybe the first popular app to put Swift into production on Android, starting early 2015.

I’m deeply interested in high performance computing and ML, especially on-device training and inference.

I’m a big fan of Mojo and above all I would love to use it to accelerate ML on iOS and Android in the future. I’m also interested to use Mojo for inference in hybrid training pipelines (many frozen layers, some being trained).

Especially in data science, in the longer term, I’d love to see Mojo replace Python, which I see as a necessary evil at best and at worst largely unsuitable for what it’s most often tasked with.

Have a great end of year season everyone, I’m looking forward to big things for Modular in 2025.

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Hi, I’m Apranik! I’m a high energy physics researcher (my interest is future circular colliders at CERN). Currently me and my team are designing a new analysis framework using Mojo. Hopefully we can make it work. Happy new year!

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Hi, I’m Milt. :slight_smile:

I’m a long-suffering Cybersecurity Engineer / IT Generalist who is way overdue for a creative outlet. I’ve coded at my job and casually for enjoyment. I’m interested in Mojo for low-level / kernel-level system development, with one eye on RISC V. It’s an academic interest until I get comfortable. I enjoy fitness, being social, and big ideas.

I look forward to a bright future with you fine folk! :slight_smile:

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Hey all, I’m Douglas and I live in Tokyo.

I’m a swift engineer interested in growing into an AI engineer and quite curious about Agents replacing traditional apps. I’m really excited about what Modular is doing and curious to learn and connect with this community.

I’m very curious about an idea I’ve been playing around with for a new kind of OS, perhaps with Max near its core, optimized for edge inference. I imagine the future of computing will be composable agents and widgets, not silo’d “dumb” apps as they are today. I would think this would be beneficial for consumer devices from phones to glasses, as well as robotics, anything where edge inference optimizations would make a big impact.

I’m wondering what a fork of Linux, or customized FreeBSD, or something even more ambitious in swift, rust, or mojo, might gain vs using the existing stack of macOS / Linux / Windows and the inference and applications on top.

Also apologies @clattner I tried to reply on the other post you commented on but I guess since I marked it “answered” it closed the post right away preventing my reply. Anyways makes sense on the complications of hardware adoption strategy, I’ll stick with Nvidia hardware for now.

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Ed from West Michigan, USA!

Our home is located an easy walking distance from Lake Michigan, and tourists come to this area for vacation in warm weather. In the winter when the conditions are right, we often get lake effect snow. The climate and soil is great for fruit trees, grape and blueberry farms. Woods surround our home, and we are often visited by wild turkeys, squirrels, deer, racoon, woodpeckers and a variety of other birds.

In a previous work life, I selected Python to develop test software for custom designed test equipment used for manufacturing test of consumer appliances. From this interest in Python, I learned of the Mojo programming language and MAX’s AI/ML capabilities, and of the Modular team’s vision for impacting this space. I am applying these capabilities on a personal project hosted on GitLab.

Mojo is the main language for this project, and depends heavily on 3rd-party Python libraries and custom modules, so Python interoperability is critical. In addition to Mojo syntax, I’m learning how to interact with Python to/from Mojo. My intent is to leverage the AI/ML from Mojo/MAX and fill the gaps with Python. As Mojo/MAX matures, I expect to replace Python modules/libraries with native implementations if/when available. My vision is that the underlying framework developed for this application can be leveraged in future, diverse applications.

I’m really happy/excited to learn from and interact with like-minded folks both here and on Modular’s Discord server.

Thanks, and happy coding! :smiley:

Bio:
I come to Mojo/MAX from an extensive professional background in Manufacturing Quality, Hardware Test Engineering, Software Development, Test Requirements & Specs. LinkedIn

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Chris
Github discussions redirected to here
I am not Chris Lattner

Just another rando software engineer :wink:

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