Desmond Bowe
Artist at Desmond's Tiki Tube Amps
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDesmond Bowe is a multidisciplinary software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building products, teams, and communities across the Elixir and Ruby ecosystems. He founded the Empire City Elixir Conference and cohosts ElixirTalk, blending technical depth with a strong emphasis on community, aesthetics, and experiential design. As a hands-on engineer he’s led engineering teams and CTO roles, shipped resilient message-driven architectures (including improvements to the popular Hutch RabbitMQ library), and built tooling to speed code review at scale. His background spans startups and product engineering from Payitoff to Versus Systems, with a track record of migrating and stabilizing complex systems under pressure. Based in Los Angeles, he mixes creative pursuits—amplifier design and music—with software craftsmanship, bringing an unusual combination of artistic sensibility and pragmatic engineering to every project.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St. Albans School (D.C.)BA Economics, BA Economics at William & Mary
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Github Skills (7)
rabbitmq10
configuration-management10
error-handling10
message-queue10
queue10
ruby10
yaml7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ruby-amqp/hutch
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
A system for processing messages from RabbitMQ.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Desmond focused on improving the configuration loading and error handling within the Hutch library. Their contributions included parsing configuration files, handling invalid attributes, and implementing error messages. Furthermore, they refactored the broker's API connection and publisher logic, ensuring robustness and better handling of connection and publisher errors. These changes enhance the reliability and stability of the message processing system.
rabbitmq
ElixirTalk/elixirtalk
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
ElixirTalk Podcast
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 months
elixirpodcast
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