This thread is for everyone to say hello and introduce themselves to the community.
I’ll start:
I’m Giovanni Campagna, I’m a 3rd year PhD student at Stanford, advised by prof. Monica Lam.
My main interest is programming languages, but since I started the PhD I discovered my love for natural language processing (“the highest-level programming language”, Monica says). I am no machine learning expert, but I have learned a thing or two about translating natural language into code.
I’ve been involved with Almond since the very beginning, when Almond was called Sabrina and it was a class project in CS294S 2015. I am the lead developer on the project.
Previously, I was involved with the GNOME community, which made me a free-software enthusiast. I am a believer in open-source, and open-source has taught me almost everything I know about software engineering. I am also one of the few people who are foolish enough to run GNU/Linux on the desktop.