Isaac Harris-Holt

CTO @ Rover

Isaac is a recent functional programming convert (coming from a Python and data engineering background) and a YouTube creator producing content around the Gleam programming language.

Outside of software, Isaac’s biggest passion is his collection of over 50 hats!

Talk:
Jumping on the Bandwagon: How I Ended up Writing Gleam for a Living

Diving into a new language can be pretty daunting. Falling into a new language by accident? That’s a completely different story.

This talk will discuss how a series of unexpected events led to a career in Gleam, highlighting the lessons learned along the way, Gleam’s strengths - and its pitfalls - and how to write production-ready Gleam code.

Key Takeaways:

  • I’m hoping to convince you to try Gleam if you haven’t already, and force your coworkers to try it if you have! We’ll go over all the things that make Gleam a great language for building production apps, and hear some success stories from people who’ve already done so!

Target Audience:

  • The BEAM-curious or the existing BEAMers who are new to Gleam and want to see how they could progress to being true Gleamlins.