About Ifat Ribon, Fito von Zastrow, Noel Rappin

Ifat is a Principal Architect at LaunchPad Lab in Chicago. She enjoys untangling complex problems, finding the right words for hard things, and helping teams make confident technical decisions. She’s a big fan of good abstractions, long runs along the lakeshore, and finding the signal in the noise.

Fito von Zastrow is a Staff Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki. He is a SF Bay Area transplant from Asunción, Paraguay. He enjoys hiking, watching soccer, video games, and pair-programming.

Noel Rappin is a Staff Engineer at Chime Financial. Noel has authored multiple technical books, including “Programming Ruby 4” “Modern Front-End Development For Rails” and “Rails 5 Test Prescriptions”. He also hosted the podcast Tech Done Right. Follow Noel on Bluesky @noelrappin.com and online at http://www.noelrappin.com.