Brooklyn Zelenka
Hey there, I'm Brooke
Depending on the community, I'm best known for:
- Witchcraft, which ports Haskell idioms to Elixir
- Specifying Ethereum Virtual Machine improvements
- UCAN, a form of distributed, user-owned JWT+SPKI auth
🙌 What I'm (Currently) Excited About
- Programming languages & PLT
- Distributed systems
- Database design
- Tech community
- Startups & advising
⚛️ Fission
I'm the cofounder and CTO at Fission, where we're eliminating the need for a backend & DevOps (yes, serioulsy). The web as a platform is incredibly powerful, and we're giving everyone a native app feel, right in the browser, without plugins. Filesystem, DB, user-owned accounts & data, encryption at rest, automatic offline support, privacy out of the box, and everything else you'd need to get up and running with a modern web app. No messing around with k8s, no server setup, no differences between production and your local environment.
🗣 🗺 Conference Talks
I gives conference talks (slides here), often on the topics of functional programming, the future of programming, and models of computation.
🧑💻 👩💻 👨💻 Tech Community
I've been involved in the tech community in Vancouer for several years now. I founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup, and for a few years helped organize Code & Coffee YVR. In 2018, we ran Conf & Coffee, a 2-day tech conference.
🧙🔮🐈⬛✨ Witchcraft
What started as a teaching tool at the FP Meetup turned into a suite of libraries porting common Haskell idioms into Elixir. Witchcraft is a suite of libraries that work well together, including:
You can help support Witchcraft by getting involved her eon GitHub, or contributing on Open Collective.
⛓ 📦 Blockchain
Once upon a time, I was fairly involved with Ethereum. I coauthored a number of standards in the space, including: