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Intro

Hi all, if you’ve joined recently you may have seen a welcome message from me in your inbox but I figured a great way to get to know folks here would be an intro thread. As we share Solace related knowledge and learn from each other, let’s get to know each other!

Name or handle

(only share what you’re comfortable with of course)

In real life I’m Trish Mermuys and you can find me on twitter @mermuys and LinkedIn if you want to connect with me there.

Location

Where in the world is…
I’m in Ottawa, Canada. Right now I’m working from home but normally I’m at Solace’s headquarters here in Ottawa.

Job

I’m currently the Developer Content and Community Manager here at Solace. My job is to help make this community a thriving place where you can find other people who are as passionate, interested, and curious about Solace, PubSub+, Event Portal, and really anything related to event driven architecture.

For fun

Tell us about the fun story about your experience with Solace
For me it’s not directly related to Solace software or the broker, but starting a new job in the midst of a pandemic. I had worked remotely before, but it was temporary (six months) and with a team of people that I already knew quite well and had great rapport with. I started with Solace in May when everything was pretty much shut down here in Ottawa. So I didn’t get to meet any of my coworkers in person until last week. We just had restaurant outdoor patios open recently so I was able to join @hong and @Tamimi for some drinks and food and finally see them in real life! It was a great moment to get to know them even better, plus the beer tasted really good!

###Now it’s your turn! Comment below? and tell us a bit about yourself!

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Intro
How’dy ya’ll! ? Me iiamo Tamimi, no hablo Español (Translation: My name is Tamimi, I dont speak Spanish)

Name or handle
My name is Tamimi Ahmad, and I go by Tamimi, Tam, Tams, Tim, Timmy…etc (I still get new variation of my name on a daily basis so I’m pretty used to it by now) :victory_hand: Follow me on The Twitter on @ TweetTamimi and get ready for cool content featuring: Solace, tech, gifs, opinions and random thoughts ? I am also on the Linked of In here

Location
I’m in Ottawa, Canada ?? Right now I’m working from home too and usually in normal days I also work from home or usually a cafe. I do well with public spaces, you can call me the nomad developer ?

Job
I am a Developer Advocate with the office of the CTO. I work hand in hand with @marc @Aaron and @TomF baking some cool developer initiatives and events. In a nut shell, i am involved with enabling developers to using our product. On normal non-pandemic days you can catch me either online partaking in virtual activities, cruising around reddit on tech forms, writing technical blogs on dev.to or traveling around giving talks at conferences, meetups and events ? I am also super involved with doing POC’s and projects with other technologies, tools and frameworks to see how they integrate with Solace :high_voltage:

Apart from Solace, I am also the Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships at a non-profit organization called Connected Canadians. We are involved with increasing digital literacy for older adults and teaching them how to use technology better. I am very passionate about our vision and what do to contribute back to the seniors community in Ottawa. You can check out our website to now more, and if you want to watch cute testimony videos of seniors talking about their experiences with technology (phones and computers)! ???

For fun
I am an AVID gif user ? catch me pulling out a gif for literally any situation . You know how they say a picture is worth a 1000 words? Well I believe that a gif is worth 1001 words! I just feel like you can explain a situation or reflect how you feel without needing to type anything, ya know?! Here is a gif for ya’ll

party gif

Now what is YOUR fav gif?? I accept gif challenges.
Also, as you can probably tell by now, I like using emojies quite often as I believe they are worth 887 words ?

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Name or Handle

My name is Marc DiPasquale and you can find me on Twitter (@Mrc0113) and on LinkedIn. Feel free to connect!

Location

I’m located in Orlando, FL ?? where I work out of my home office unless I’m traveling for exciting Developer events. I know a lot of people travel to Orlando for vacation so let me know if you’re in town and want to grab a drink and meet IRL

Job

I’m a Developer Advocate at Solace where I’m always working to help enable developers and provide the best experience possible with our technology! Prior to joining Solace I worked with several large organizations as a Software Engineer implementing event-driven, real-time, systems and was actually a Solace user at a few of them :slight_smile:

For Fun

Outside of work I spend most of my time with family/friends and I enjoy participating (okay mostly watching…) Sports ? ? and Traveling :airplane: ? when I get the opportunity to do so.

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Name or Handle

I’m Hong and you can find me on LinkedIn.

Location

I’m in Ottawa, the beautiful but cold capital city of Canada.

Job

I’m the Senior Community Content Manager at Solace. As the title tells, I’m the content guy for this Community and the developer content on Solace’s blog page. So, if you have any suggested content ideas or want to write for the Community and Solace, feel free to reach out to me.

For fun

I enjoy playing ping-pong. I used to have our weekly games with my friends before the COVID-19 lockdown. I miss them a lot now.

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Name or Handle

I’m Kuladeep Sadu, This is my LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuladeep-sadu-24731628/

Location

I’m working in Singapore, Lion city.

Job

Working as Middleware Engineer in Barclays and taking care of Solace and Tibco middleware infra build, upgrade and engineering stuff. Looking forward to learn and contribute from/to solace community.

For fun

I enjoy playing with kids, spending time with family and friends. Watching movies, also spending some time with books and blogs :slight_smile:

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Nice to meet you and welcome, @Kuladeep! What kind of books and blogs do you read?

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Glad to meet you @hong. I usually visit tech blogs like tibcommunity and ittoolboxs, and with fiction books :slight_smile:

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@Kuladeep Cool! BTW. As @marc is asking people, where do you get your tech news?

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ack’d @hong :slight_smile: thansk for pointing me this link got to know few more tech news

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Name or Handle

Handle?? Haha awesome. Well, my name is Aaron, but I used to have handles like “Doc Zaius”, “sLh”, “King Influx” and others back in the BBS & PC demoscene days.

Location

Currently in Singapore! But originally from Solace HQ back in Ottawa, Canada.

Job

Yes I have one of those. Have worked at Solace over 9 years, from Professional Services to Sales Engineer to (currently) Developer Advocate.

For fun

I code. Mostly Solace utils or demos. Right now, I’m working on releasing my geo[spatial|metric] filtering library for Solace PubSub+ and MQTT. I was also getting into kitesurfing before COVID.

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##Name or Handle
My name is Uli. 3 kids, no pets.

Location

Karlsruhe, Germany

Job

After doing 23 years of IT operations (not dev-ops, only ops) in a large Germany-based company, I switched to Solace in 2019 - completely different work style, completely different life style :slight_smile:

For Fun

I play Trombone. And I conduct a wind orchestra. And still looking for any demo idea to integrate some music into Solace events

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@uherbst Welcome and nice to meet you! We did post a blog post last year that talks about music and Solace events: https://solace.com/blog/making-event-driven-music-with-midi-solace-and-slack/. Looking forward to your demo or blog post. :smile:

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Name or handle
Leah Robert (“Row-bear” - my last name is french, although it doesn’t look it!). You can find me on LinkedIn here
Location
I’m in Silicon Valley, California but am originally from rural Ontario, Canada.
Job
I am a Solution Architect at Solace working in the Pacific Northwest region.
For fun
In my free time, I bake/cook and try to get outside in any way I can (roadtrips, hiking, camping)!

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Welcome, @pr320235! Do the answers from @Tamimi and @marc answer your questions? Also, it would be great if you can share your project with the Community – what it is about, how you developed it, etc.

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Aloha,
Dev from singapore here?

Handle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/minisha-murugan-335ab821

For fun
I like creating comics mostly around technology, painting, up for a good chat always, currently exploring DJing world?

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Welcome, @minisha! Looking forward to your comics. :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the DJing world (and our community) @minisha! do you just do it for fun or record and play at events? I play on the Pioneer DDJ-400 and it’s a solid one! I don’t record or perform at events tho, just for fun ?

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Thanks. You can find some comics in my insta: MylifeasMinisha on Instagram: "#smartgadget#technology#iot#it#dataprivacy#cybersecurity#security#internetinmouth#smartthoothbrush#computers#geeks#data#datatransmission#internetofthings#smartfuture#comicworls#techcomicstore#comics#cartoon#poweredbytechcomicstore#smarttoothbrush#comicsby_mm"
@Tamimi I dont play for events yet. This hobby started like a month ago. Traktor is my starting point, ll see where it goes.

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Name or Handle
This Nagaraju Kshathriya (You can call me NaGG) and you can find me on LinkedIn https://in.linkedin.com/in/nagaraju-kshathriya

Location
I’m from Bangalore, the Sillicon Valley of India.

Job
I’m MuleSoft Developer at Accenture. As the title tells, Everyday I do integrations between applications ( Be it legacy or modern) thru API Led connectivity and I own my blog Vanchiv (https://vanchiv.com) - an iPaaS Learning Platform to share my knowledge and connect with world. So if you have any issues with Integration between Solace and iPaaS tools, feel free to reach out to me.
Recently I presented how to integrate Solace with MuleSoft to achieve event driven architecture.

For fun
I enjoy playing with iPaaS Platforms and Chess. Exploring life in different way to live the life fullest. Most of the time into connecting applications :smiley:

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