Hi. Michael from the US, living in Netherlands (but looking toward Portugal or Costa Rica as my next home).
I’ve been doing this stuff for a while, starting with C and C++ in Unix, but always looking for a better tool, always learning new things. That has led me through Java, Python, Ruby, and some Clojure (and many other languages for brief cases).
Now here I am looking at Elixir as my next secret weapon :).
Hi all! I am Bozhidar from Skopje, Macedonia. I am currently working as a Python Data Scientist and I am curious about Elixir. I have 2 years of professional experience as a programmer, but it has been a great and fulfilling ride and I’ve learned a lot. I am here mostly to read about the learning experiences of other people. Until now the Elixir community seems very welcoming which is very important in my opinion.
Hello! I’m Russ Olsen. I’ve done some Ruby here and there. Lately been spending some of my spare time looking at Elixir. I will say this: If you are new to Elixir and still want to help out, Jose + co are lovely about taking documentation pull requests.
Russ, welcome!
I’m SO excited about you checking out Elixir because I would absolutely LOVE to see an Elixir book from you 
For those of you who don’t know Russ, he is the author of some of my favourite programming books of all time!
Design Patterns in Ruby and Eloquent Ruby 
As you can see from the reviews, it’s not just me who appreciates his flair for writing and technical prowess.
Russ, an Elixir book from you would be a dream come true 
Hello, I’m Alex from Tucson, AZ.
Recently, I worked at the University of Arizona and introduced Elixir and Phoenix to their community at their recent IT Summit.
I’ve worked in Ruby, Javascript, and PHP, in addition to Elixir. I’ve built monolithic and microservice applications. I find the problems presented in distributed computing fun and the potential of machine learning fascinating.
Oh, and I’m looking for a job. 
Hi I’m Joe from Madison, WI. I have a bad habit of spending my free time learning new programming languages instead of doing significant things with them, but Elixir has me more interested in sticking with it than most partially because of the lisp style metaprogramming (I fell in love with scheme in university; probably had something to do with having professors like Kent Dybvig and Dan Friedman) but mostly because the BEAM is basically what I’ve been wanting in a programming paradigm for years but failed to realize has existed for longer than I have sadly. facepalm
Looking forward to learning more with all of you. 
Hey, I am Sergio. Working with Rails and now heading to Elixir and Phoenix. Nice to meet you
Hi there, I am Joe from Switzerland.
I have been working with Ruby for two years now and am going to switch to elixir full time in June. 
Hello. I’m Szymon from Kraków, Poland. Trying to learn Elixir+Phoenix, and looking for something to keep me up to date with what’s going on in the community. Am I in the right place?