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Kilo Loco
Kilo Loco is the alias of Kyle Lee, a self-taught iOS engineer, instructor, and content creator who turned a string of dead-end jobs into a nine-year career building production mobile apps. After teaching himself Swift to build apps for his own family, he became a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Amplify, reached tens of thousands of developers through YouTube tutorials and courses, and now leads iOS work on accessibility testing tools at Deque Systems while tinkering at the edge of AI and developer tooling.
Nicola Ballotta
Nicola Ballotta is an Italian engineering leader with 25+ years of internet industry experience, currently serving as Director of Cloud at Namecheap where he built EasyWP — one of the world's most affordable managed WordPress hosting platforms — from prototype to production. He is best known as the creator of The Hybrid Hacker, a newsletter that grew from zero to 30,000 subscribers in 18 months before being acquired by Refactoring in June 2024. The combined publication now reaches 120,000+ readers and serves a 900+ member private community of engineering leaders.