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Adi Iyengar is a Staff Software Engineer and an Open source advocate with 8 years of Elixir experience. For his day job, he works as a Staff Software Engineer at theScore where he uses Elixir, Distributed Erlang, Phoenix LiveView and several other tools to help build a high-volume, robust sports betting platform. On the side, he advises several startups and smaller organizations (all using Elixir) with domains ranging from commercial real estate management, Blockchain, B2B marketplace and mission-driven healthcare.

Adi is also the co-host of Elixir Mix Podcast, a weekly podcast where hot topics in Elixir ecosystem are covered. He is extremely passionate about the Elixir community and constantly tries to find ways of giving back by mentoring people, helping startups adopt Elixir, helping candidates find Elixir jobs etc. Recently, Adi authored an Elixir book, Build your own web framework in Elixir (with Packt Publishing), that walks its readers through building a small web-framework using Elixir.

When he's not writing or talking about Elixir, Adi can be seen with the Guitar, playing Ping Pong or Billiards, or trying out a new break dancing step.

• 😄 Pronouns: He / Him

• 💻 I work with:
  
  

• 🔭 I’m currently working on:

  • Promoting my book: Build your own web framework in Elixir 📖
  • My podcast: Elixir Mix Podcast 🎤
  • Advising startups with Elixir 💧
  • A few talks at Engineering conferences 🗣️
  • Building a workflow automation framework in Elixir 🤖
  • Building an intelligent animal motion detector for my backyard pond using Elixir, Nerves and Nx 🐢 🦦
  • Catching up on Theoretical Physics books 📚

• 🌱 I’m currently learning:

  • Machine Learning with Elixir
  • Nerves + Raspberry Pi
  • Scaling Elixir services on Heroku
  • Gleam-lang ⭐

• 💬 Talk to me about:

  • Elixir 💧
  • Software Engineering Processes 🤖
  • Test-Driven Development ❌ ✔️
  • Theoretical Physics 👓 🔭
  • Cool, new or shiny software stuff ✨
  • Open-world video games 🎮

• ⚡ Fun facts:

  • Both my thumbs are hypermobile 👍 It allows me to play some weird chords on the 🎸
  • I code about 80 hours a week ⌨️, but it's still not my number one passion