Walé Ogundipé is a software developer based in Seattle. A perennial participant at tech competitions across the United States, he has won (among many other prizes) the Best User Experience Award at Techcrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon. He also speaks regularly at programming and user experience conferences such as Abstractions, AlterConf, and Open Source Bridge. He enjoys cultivating the programming community at large and as co-organizer of SeattleJS, one of the largest Javascript meetups in the United States.