Hello everyone! I’m Roman from Ukraine.
I have been using Ruby for more than ten years now, and I also have some Common Lisp experience (I was using it for three years before switching to Ruby). Recently, Elixir is the thing I study and like, the language is nice and the whole development experience is very fun. I miss CL macros from time to time, but that’s okay 
I have done one small internal project with Phoenix, and so far it looks promising, so I hope to use it more in the future.
Hello all! I’m Kalind Karia from India 
I have used C, Python languages much for my past projects.
I’ve now shifted towards the functional paradigm and started with Elixir as my first functional language.
So far, I’m able to understand the concepts.
And I believe all you folks are much helpful to newbie like me 
I’m just a llama from Finland looking into Elixir and Phoenix.
Hello everyone, my name’s Bob, software engineer living in melbourne. Mostly I dealt with React, laravel (PHP) and python. Really want to make changes to elixir some day but not sure how to convince my team to use it!
Hello, I’m Sergey. I work with Python and Go most of my time, currently learning Elixir and Rust.
Hello, my name’s Milan and I’m originally from the Czech Republic but have been living & working in Japan for over three years now 
At work, I have to juggle various tech stacks depending on project requirements (Swift/Vapor, Java/Spring Boot, Ruby/Rails, Go, TypeScript/Node.js in the last three years 
), so far no Elixir projects have reached my desk but that won’t stop me from trying to convince the company to give Elixir a try! 
Hello everyone,
I am Abhishek Tripathi, from India. I am learning Elixir from Pragmatic Studio’s course. Previously, I have worked on Genetic Algorithms in MATLAB and python. I hope that my journey to web development will be relatively ‘hassle free’, given elixir’s peace-of-mind philosophy!
Hoping to develop some webapps in future.
Hi!
I’m Rosa, and I’m from Colorado. I’ve been working with Elixir for about two and a half years now, two of them have been as a full-time Elixir dev. I’ve previously worked in Java and Ruby, and done some personal projects in a few other languages, but Elixir is by far my favorite.
I want to get more involved with the community! Everyone I’ve worked with so far has been wonderful and I want to help make this language even better.
Hi again!
I’m Romario from México!
Hello. Been lurking awhile here but never properly introduced myself. I started developing software for $ in the early 1980s, am currently a .NET guy, most recently working with C#, JavaScript, TSQL and even a bit of Scheme legacy code. Past experience also includes VB.NET and the xBase language family, though arguably this should no longer be mentioned in polite company. Standing on the precipice of F# and while I like it as a language, am strongly attracted to the ERLANG runtime, for which there’s nothing at all like it anywhere else, near as I can tell. If I’m going to dive into functional, I might as well have the freedom of thousands of threads managed on my behalf without a lot of fuss. I have already gotten tired of monitor locks and critical sections.
Hello World! I’m Tucker from North Carolina, US. I mostly work on the web using JavaScript/TypeScript and python. I recently started learning functional programming and elixir on the side and maybe to use in the future
pretty excited with that 
Oh, so there is an introductions thread!
Hi, I’m Mackenzie or maco, vaguely in the Washington, DC, USA area. I’ve been using Elixir for a year and a half, since my last job started using it. This is my first functional language, and it turns out FP is fun.
Glad this introductory thread popped out again!
Hello fellow elixirians, I’m Max, originally from Northern Italy but I’ve been living in Germany for almost half of my life already… Currently residing in Berlin.
I’ve been a software engineer for a long time now, and I’ve worked with lots of different languages: PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript… you name it.
I discovered Elixir in 2017 and it’s been a wonderful way not only to discover a great new language, ecosystem and community, but also to get my feet wet with functional programming, of which I’m an almost fanatical supporter now 
I’m lucky enough to be able to use Elixir in my current job.
When I write serious code I always try to do it using TDD.
Between work and family I don’t have a huge amount of free time, but I try to contribute to the community whenever I can.
Wishing you’ll a great end of 2021!
Hi everyone.
I’m Randy. A long-time lurker on Elixir forums, Elixir confs, Twitter streams.
Read everything I can get my hands on for Elixir related programming but my day-to-day is working in Rails. I’m what you call a “Rails 3 whisperer” supporting legacy Rails apps. Ironically, nothing that I do is actually Rails at this points. It’s usually data migrations, feature flags, SPA apps, etc.
But I keep flirting with Elixir even if it’s not my day job. 
Not sure if I’ve posted here already or not. Just in case, I’m me. I’m a physician in the USA who has become increasingly interested in programming and software development over the past 4-5 years. My lack of formal CS training will show up frequently, I’m afraid.
I wouldn’t let that trouble you - software developers as a class must be about the least formally credentialled “profession” there’s ever been. And in any case, you’re likely better at programming than we are at doctoring.
Posting in the Elixir Forum means you already have a good taste in programming. 
You can take the popular Harvard CS50 for free, online. It’s a decent intro to computer science, you will learn about many important underlying concepts, you will even have to write some basic data structures and algorithms in C, and generally it’s a great starting point that will clarify a lot magic for you.
Here’s the link:
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