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Maya FerrisFounder and senior backend engineerMaya Ferris started Stacklog in 2019 after typing out one too many long Slack explanations she wished she could just link to instead. She has spent twelve years as a backend engineer at mid-sized companies, running production databases, migrating observability stacks, and building on-call rotations, and most of what she writes starts from a migration or an incident she actually worked. She is based in Portland and currently spends more time than she'd like thinking about cron and NAS fan curves.Anders VikStaff writer, hardware and toolsAnders Vik spent six years fixing water-damaged laptops and overclocked gaming rigs at a repair shop in Austin before deciding he'd rather write about hardware than solder it for strangers all day. He owns more keyboards and spare NAS drives than furniture, and he tests most of what he covers on his own desk before writing a word about it. He joined Stacklog to cover the hardware and daily tools that change how a workday actually feels.Iris QuillStaff writer, engineering history and infrastructureIris Quill ran mail and file servers for a university computing lab in the early 2000s, back when printing out an RFC and highlighting it by hand was a normal way to debug a problem. She still keeps a shelf of networking books nobody else in her house will touch, and spends weekends reading old mailing list archives for fun. She writes about the history behind the tools engineers use without thinking about it, and tests hosting providers with the same patience she once gave aging mail servers.