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I would like a list of contact information for blind software engineers.
Hello! Thanks for asking to create a list of contact information for blind software engineers. In short, Saqib Shaikh, Jordyn Castor, Ed Summers, Florian Beijers, Michael Curran, James Teh, Matt King, David Best, Ashley Cox, and Krishnakant Mane are the 10 blind software engineers whose contacts I have provided in this research brief. You'll find a deep dive of my answers below.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
In order to compile a list of blind/visually impaired software engineers, I tried to look for communities/groups of blind software engineers. Unfortunately, none could be found. So, I looked for news articles listing the works of such software engineers and have compiled a list of 10 blind/visually impaired software engineers from these sources.
Saqib Shaikh is a blind programmer with Microsoft. He has been blind since he was seven years old. He made an app called Seeing AI as a research project, using intelligence APIs from Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Jordyn Castor is a software engineer with Apple who has been blind since birth. Castor has also worked for Goldman Sachs and USAA, she is an alumni of Michigan State University.
Ed Summers is a legally blind software engineer at a North Carolina-based data analysis company, SAS, has developed a software that can turn graphs to music. Retinitis pigmentosa, a degenrative eye condition, was diagnosed in Summers when he was just 10 years old.
Florian Beijers is who is a fully blind software developer and founder of Free Code Camp. Beijers says on his LinkedIn profile that he is "Looking for new backend webdev and accessibility opportunities." He has also worked with companies such as KLM and others, in the Netherlands.
Michael Curran and James Teh developed a screen reader company NV Access. NV Access is based in South East Queensland, Australia. Curran and Teh had met at a children's music camp for the blind.
Matt King is an accessibility engineer at Facebook, he was born visually impaired. King worked at IBM from 1989 right after graduating from the University of Notre Dame, up to 2009, before joining Facebook.
David Best is a former IBM web developer who created a network of iBeacons, for visually impaired people to navigate easily. Best describes himself on his LinkedIn page as "Accessibility IT Specialist at BEST Consulting"
Ashley Cox is a blind musician and software programmer. According to RSBC, young Cox (before turning 19 years old) accumulated 400 clients in 2 years.
Email: kk@dff.org.in
Krishnakant Mane is a visually impaired software engineer who developed an open-source accounting software GNUKhata.
CONCLUSION
Saqib Shaikh, Jordyn Castor, Ed Summers, Florian Beijers, Michael Curran, James Teh, Matt King, David Best, Ashley Cox, and Krishnakant Mane are blind software engineers whose contacts I have provided in this research brief.
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