Jose Valim

Jose Valim

Elixir Creator

Elixir Phoenix

Biography

Jose Valim created Elixir, bringing modern features to the Erlang VM. He was previously a Rails core team member.

Daily Work

  • Leading Elixir development
  • Working on the language and tooling
  • Speaking at conferences
  • Building the Elixir community

Challenges

“Elixir brings joy to building concurrent systems. The Erlang VM is incredible; we just made it more accessible.”

Impact

Elixir has made concurrent programming accessible and powers real-time systems at scale.