Alex Koutmos
Co-Host of Beam Radio
Alex Koutmos is currently a Senior Software Engineer working at Boulevard. He has been working professionally with Elixir since 2016 and was hooked on the BEAM since reading Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić in 2015. When Alex is not programming or reading books, he is playing Nintendo Switch with his two beautiful daughters. Alex and his wife also enjoy taking their girls and Springer Spaniel George out on hikes all across the USA whenever the chance arises.
Alex Koutmos is also the author of quite a few Elixir blog posts that he publishes on https://akoutmos.com. He also publishes regular Elixir Tips on Twitter under the #myelixirstatus hashtag. He has also maintains a few packages on Hex.pm and is currently obsessed with taking Elixir application observability to the next level with his latest project PromEx.
Alex Koutmos has hosted 84 Episodes.
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Episode 48: The One and Only José Valim
March 16th, 2023 | Season 2 | 49 mins 4 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Panel has a long lovely Elixir chat with the creator of Elixir - José Valim
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Episode 47: Security with Michael Lubas
March 2nd, 2023 | Season 2 | 40 mins 57 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Panel has a fascinating conversation about security in Elixir with Paraxial Founder, Michael Lubas.
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Episode 46: Meryl Dakin: Building Healthy Elixir Teams
February 18th, 2023 | Season 2 | 53 mins 29 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Panel talks with Meryl Dakin about building healthy Elixir teams and adopting Elixir
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Episode 45: Dave Lucia and Elixir's Superpowers
February 2nd, 2023 | Season 2 | 45 mins 12 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Panel talks with Dave Lucia about Elixir's Superpower and the Elixir Community
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Episode 44: Flora Petterson Talks Nerves and Puppets
January 20th, 2023 | Season 2 | 44 mins 5 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio Panel talks with Flora Petterson, technical writer and puppeteer about using Nerves to animate puppets.
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Episode 43: Doing Well and Doing Good: Elixir Apprenticeships
January 5th, 2023 | Season 2 | 44 mins 36 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Panel talks with Chris Nelson and Andrew Ek of Launch Scout about Apprenticeships
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Episode 42: Happy Holidays!
December 20th, 2022 | Season 2 | 17 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
From all of us to all of you! Wishing you a wonderful holiday season however you celebrate it and Happy New Year!
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Episode 41: Membrane
December 19th, 2022 | Season 2 | 50 mins 46 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio panel talks with Mateusz Front, a lead architect at Membrane about all the cool BEAM things going on there.
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Episode 40: Alex McLain Talks Nerves
November 30th, 2022 | Season 2 | 1 hr 2 mins
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel has a lively discussion with Alex McLain on Nerves, the BEAM and learning.
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Episode 39: Bruce and the Great Loop
November 9th, 2022 | Season 2 | 46 mins 4 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The panel talks with Bruce about the boating adventures on the Great Loop and how many similarities there are with programming in Elixir.
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Episode 38: BeamRadio Team Reflects on Chris McCord's LiveView Keynote
October 26th, 2022 | Season 2 | 50 mins 3 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
BeamRadio Team Reflects on Chris McCord's LiveView Keynote from ElixirConf 2022.
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Episode 37: Beam Radio: Talk Radio with Steven and Lars
October 12th, 2022 | Season 2 | 45 mins 36 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Join Steven and Lars as they explore favorite topics around Elixir and the Beam.
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Episode 36: Curiosity as a Superpower
September 21st, 2022 | Season 2 | 48 mins 38 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio team talks to Brooklin Meyers about teaching Elixir and the new DockYard Academy
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Episode 35: eqWAlizer with Ilya Klyuchnikov
August 31st, 2022 | Season 2 | 42 mins 34 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
This week the BeamRadio Panel talks about eqWAlizer Ilya Klyuchnikov.
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Episode 34: Catching Up with the Beam Radio Team
August 22nd, 2022 | Season 2 | 43 mins 42 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The panel discusses MJML EEX, Rust, Surface and LiveView and more!
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Episode 33: Beam Radio Talks Elixir with Bowery Farms
June 8th, 2022 | Season 2 | 43 mins 51 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel talks with the Bowery Farms team Kevin McNamee and Nick Sanford about how they use Elixir.