José Valim
Elixir author, Open Source Developer
Plataformatec
José Valim (@josevalim) is a member of the Ruby on Rails Core Team and a writer by the Pragmatic Programmers. Software developer for 8 years, he graduated in Engineering by the São Paulo University, Brazil and has a Master of Science by Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is also the lead-developer of Plataformatec, a consultancy firm based in Brazil, an active member of the Open Source community and is frequently traveling and speaking at conferences.
José Valim is Giving the Following Talks
Introduction to Elixir: a New Language on the VM
Elixir is a programming language for the Erlang VM. Elixir provides a first class macro mechanism, supports polymorphism via protocols (similar to Clojure's) and many other features while keeping the functional aspects of Erlang used to build distributed, fault-tolerant applications.
In this talk, José Valim will introduce Elixir and showcase some of its features, going into details about how they can be a useful part of developer's daily tools.
Talk objectives: The talk aims to introduce Elixir and show case its main features. The attendees will leave the talk with a better understanding of the language goals and ready to start a project with Elixir.
Target audience: This talk appeals and targets existing Erlang developers (with any level of experience).
