Exercism Community Stories

Ethan Hansen is a current computer science student at Case Western Reserve University studying the intersection of quantum computing and cybersecurity.

He loves all things open source, private, and secure.

He's also a big fan of the V language - so he built the track for it on Exercism! You can check it out here and give it a try - https://exercism.org/tracks/vlang

We had a great chat across such a wide range of topics and ideas an...

Thelma was raised in Bronx, NY. She studied for a BBA in Economics from Baruch School, CCNY. Currently she is a widow with an adult daughter and son. She worked as a programmer, mostly C and simulation software at Johnson Controls and smaller firms; long retired.

Now she walks all the time for recreation and to run errands; she bikes and swims in warmer times and her main hobby is Exercism! She never learned to drive as her and her...

Looking to get started with coding? Carl's story should inspire you to push off into learning Python...As a total newbie to coding, her took on the Exercism Python track without knowing anything about programming and is now flying.

Carl, known in the community as “meatball”, lives in Sweden and is a full time student.

He recently discovered his love of Python on the Exercism website where he started to build up his knowledge of pro...

Erik Schierboom lives in The Netherlands and works as head of open-source for Exercism. There he builds the software and infrastructure that powers the open-source elements of the platform, ensuring each track is a joy to work with. He was a top Exercism volunteer before joining full-time. As a true polyglot developer, his biggest passion is learning new languages. He loves to share knowledge, for example via mentoring, blogs, Sta...

Today we are catching up with Bobbi Towers, the self-proclaimed "Child of Exercism", who began their journey of contributing to open-source software right here with us. They joined the community in 2018 as a student on the Clojure track and went on to become a mentor. When the pandemic fell upon us and we began work on v3, the track needed a maintainer so they stepped up to develop the tooling and write the initial exercises, despi...

We caught up with Isaac who is involved with Exercism, specifically in mentoring learners across numerous different programming languages. A self-proclaimed techie. Jack of all trades.

Coffee hobbyist. Enjoying motorcycles, bicycles, woodworking, welding, DIY, fantasy novels, gardening...amongst other things. We are so grateful for all the effort and energy Isaac puts in to mentoring and wanted to give a little insight into the d...

Taiyab Raja is the principal UI/UX designer behind Exercism v3. If you think Exercism looks and feels awesome, he’s the man to thank.

Taiyab enjoys all things startups, design and entrepreneurship. Born to entrepreneurial immigrant parents and raised in a deprived neighbourhood in Birmingham, England, Taiyab fell into his love for tech, design and building things, which, by chance, led to getting involved in amazing and interesting...

Franziska lives in Germany and has a full-remote position as a Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian (the company behind Jira, Confluence and Trello). She works on Go services for a new product called "Jira Product Discovery". It aims to support product managers with their work and is currently in public beta.

Before joining Atlassian, Franziska worked as developer (Node.js, Go, Vue.js) and tech lead at small companies around Fra...

Gabriel Nelle is living in South Germany near Baden-Baden. He’s sharing the apartment with his girlfriend and two cats. He studied to be a teacher for mathematics and German at university in Siegen which he finished in 2008.

Since then he worked as a developer in the web-space mostly with JavaScript, PHP and Python. Early 2016 he switched to Go and has never looked back. At GoStudent he is part of building the No 1 global school as...

Rebecca Mark works for Unison Computing, where her mission is to make learning the Unison programming language as fun and accessible as can be. She started programming after a career in education; her favorite question from a student has been, “Is Rebecca a real grown-up?” to which her answer is another question: “Does that exist?” She started studying web development between sandwich bites on her lunch break.

Later, she was a me...