Simon St Laurent Author & Editor

Ivo Balbaert is a programming teacher and Crystal enthusiast. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and has worked for 25 years in the software industry as a developer and project manager in several companies. Now he combines teaching and consultancy with technical writing. He is particularly interested in elegant emerging languages for concurrency and distributed processing. Simon St. Laurent is a content manager at LinkedIn Learning, focusing primarily on front-end web projects. He has been co-chair of the Fluent conference and of OSCON. He has authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, and Learning Rails 3, XML: A Primer, and Cookies. You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.