{"code":"ZZGE97","name":"Mattsi","biography":"I'm Mattsi, a software engineer / consultant / craftsman / tell-computers-what-to-do-guy. I have a personal tech blog over at www.matt.si\r\n\r\nI'm a polygot and use a wide variety of tech in my day work. In my personal projects I've mostly been sticking to Rust for the past few years. I founded a Rust study group and have done some conference/meetup talks and workshops about the language too, including running a day-long Rust workshop at the UK's first Rust conference.\r\n\r\nOther interests:\r\n\r\n* ethics in tech\r\n* digitalrights\r\n* chess (I'm writing my own chess engine! https://github.com/Mattsi-Jansky/Iroh)\r\n* AI, more search & logic AI than machine learning\r\n* Simulations and gamedev\r\n* Tech meetups, conferences, hack camps\r\n* Animation, anime\r\n* videogames, particularly RPGs","submissions":["SGTVJX"],"avatar_url":"https://program.why2025.org/media/avatars/camp_profile_smaller_U2WkPe5.jpg","answers":[]}