Michael is a senior engineer at RentPath, Inc. where he is responsible for the development of Elixir services. Having experienced the joys of programming early in life creating games for his TI­82 calculator, Michael has spent the last decade mastering his craft. As a passionate learner and educator, he has helped organize local Ruby and Clojure meetups, led numerous programming book clubs, given more talks than he cares to recount, and mentored new engineers. Michael is a familiar face at conferences and local groups where he has enjoyed sharing his love for functional programming and testing best practices with others.