Eleanor McHugh

Hi, I'm Ellie, a fifty-something British trans woman, hacker, and recovering physicist best known for my presentations on Ruby, Go and Privacy.

During three decades as a commercial developer I've worked on numerous mission-critical systems: cockpit avionics; satellite communications; broadcast automation; DNS; and latterly, digital identity.

I have strong opinions on most areas of software development and don't mind airing them in public, including appearances at numerous tech conferences, including Strange Loop, GoLab, GopherCon UK, Code Mesh, GOTO, and RubyConf.

There's a small selection of my past talks available on YouTube.

I'm the sometime author of A Go Developer's Notebook, an accidental primer on encrypted network communications and functional programming masquerading as a text on programming in Go.

My adventures with Ruby don't get much public attention these days but I regularly jam with Sinatra and hang out at El Rug when time allows. If you're also a Ruby Friend be sure to say hi.

I'm also co-inventor of a number of patents in the fields of Digital Identity, Asset-Tracking and Biometric Liveness with my long-time friend and collaborator Romek Szczesniak. Together we undertake research in Privacy and Applied Cryptography as InIdSol.

You can find my up to date resume on LinkedIn.

My latest side projects are a book on the design and implementation of role-playing games called Games With Brains, the 2D6-based It's Full of Stars, and research for