Eduard Bondarenko is a software developer living in Kiev, Ukraine. He started programming using Basic on ZXSpectrum a long time ago. Later, he worked in the web development domain.
He has used Ruby on Rails for about 8 years. Having used Ruby for a long time, he discovered Clojure in early 2009, and liked the language. Besides Ruby and Clojure, he is interested in Erlang, Go, Scala, and Haskell development.
Colin Jones is director of software services at 8th Light, where he builds web, mobile, and desktop systems for clients of all sizes. He's the author of Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf. Colin participates actively in the Clojure open source community, including work on the Clojure Koans, REPLy, leiningen, and makes small contributions to Clojure itself.
Michael Kohl has been developing with Ruby since 2004 and got acquainted with Clojure in 2009. He has worked as a systems administrator, journalist, systems engineer, German teacher, software developer, and penetration tester. He currently makes his living as a senior Ruby on Rails developer. He previously worked with Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer for Ruby and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide.
Falko Riemenschneider started programming in 1989. In the last 15 years, he has worked on numerous Java Enterprise software projects for backends as well as frontends. He's especially interested in designing complex rich-user interfaces. In 2012, he noticed and learned Clojure. He quickly came in contact with ideas such as FRP and CSP that show great potential for a radically simpler UI architecture for desktop and in-browser clients.
Falko works for itemis, a Germany-based software consultancy firm with strong competence for language- and model-based software development. He cofounded a Clojure user group, and encourages other developers within and outside itemis to learn functional programming.
Falko posts regularly on http://www.falkoriemenschneider.de.