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 16: The Panel talks Elixir with Quinn Wilton
August 10th, 2021 | Season 1 | 54 mins 43 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio team talks Elixir and Erlang with Quinn Wilton. Elixir make the hard things easy according to Quinn. Come hear why!
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Episode 15: Grok It! Learning to Code
July 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 44 mins 54 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Steven, Lars and Alex join forces to just discuss best approaches to learning to code.
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Episode 14: Sneaking Elixir Into Your Org With Nikos Maroulis and Joel Kemp
July 13th, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 46 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Nikos and Joel share their Elixir success story at Spotify and give us some pointers on how to pitch Elixir to skeptical tech leaders.
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Episode 13: Lars and Contexts
June 29th, 2021 | Season 1 | 49 mins 37 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars and the BeamRad.io panel discuss contexts and take on come complex issues and break them down.
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Episode 12: Punking the Servers with Bryan Hunter
June 15th, 2021 | Season 1 | 58 mins 30 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Team talks with Bryan Hunter about what the BEAM can do!
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Episode 11: Marlus Saraiva and Plain. Old. LiveView
June 1st, 2021 | Season 1 | 56 mins 18 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio team talks with Marlus Saraiva Software Engineer at @dashbit, Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface.
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CLIP from Episode 11: Why Marlus Saraiva loves FP
May 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 1 min 14 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
We all love FP. Here's a great snippet from Episode #11 on why Marlus Saravia loves it too.
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CLIP from Episode 11: Learn Multiple Programming Languages
May 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 35 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Marlus Saraiva, Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface talks about the benefits of learning multiple languages. Snippet from Episode #11
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Episode 10: Teaching and Evangelizing Elixir and FP
May 18th, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 43 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Sophie DeBenedetto talks with Andre Bryan and Chris Miller about Elixir, Elm and the challenges and work arounds of learning FP.
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Episode 9: Bruce Tate and Frank Hunleth Talk Nerves
May 4th, 2021 | Season 1 | 50 mins 12 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
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Episode 8: Alex Koutmos and Parker Selbert Discuss Oban
April 20th, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 28 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
In this episode of BeamRadio, we talk with Parker Selbert about his Elixir story, and why he thinks Elixir is a good fit for a wide array of engineering problems. From there, we take a deep dive into the amazing job processing library that Parker created and maintains - Oban. You won't want to miss this one!
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Our Youngest Contributor
April 16th, 2021 | Season 1 | 53 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Hear from Steven about who is doing our show intros these days.
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Episode 7: Lars Wikman and Building it Right
April 6th, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 30 secs
On the cultural aspects of how Elixir and Erlang build things well.
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Episode 6: Steven Nunez Talks Ruby and the BEAM
March 23rd, 2021 | Season 1 | 51 mins 10 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming, ruby
For this week's episode, we talk to Steven Nunez, Elixir lover and Senior Engineer at GitHub.
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Episode 5: Bruce Tate and Turtles All the Way Down
March 11th, 2021 | Season 1 | 40 mins 1 sec
elixir, functional programming, java, myelixirstatus, technical writing
The Beam Radio team talks with co-host Bruce Tate about Java, Elixir and his long career as an author.
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Episode 4: Sophie DeBenedetto and LiveView and the Future of Single-Page Apps
February 23rd, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 29 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, erlang, functional programming, liveview, phoenix
LiveView is changing the world!