Nik Peric: is a Senior Engineer and Technical lead with a background in business administration. He has over 10 years working with Clojure and functional programming. Currently, he works at Swiss IT consultancy Deep Impact, where they use the web framework Kit for mission critical software. Nik is deeply passionate about working with small teams to create innovative and highly effective products. In a past life he lived and worked in Toronto as the VP of Technology at a market research consultancy Synqrinus, and created the Clojure/north conference. In his free time he can be found noodling on the guitar, trying out all the local foods and drinks, or out enjoying the mountain air.