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There is a lot of crazy young talent kicking around. We’ve seen that great talent that UW Velocity is producing with Ted Livingston(@ted_livingston) at Kik. There are the Christopher (@golda) and Michael (@michaelmontano) at BackType. There is the stupidly awesome team at Extreme Venture Partners (@avarma, @fnthawar, @sundeep).

I thought I’d throw together a quick list of designers, developers and entrepreneurs that are young, hot, kicking ass and taking names. There is an amazing amount of talent in Canada. And this is who I’m watching because they are hot sh!t.

1. Dan McGrady (@dmix, LinkedIn), CareLogger
2. Kaitlyn MacLachlan (LinkedIn), AskItOnline & Yellow Pages Group
3. Casper Wong (@wongcasper, LinkedIn), CommunityLend
4. Jennifer Fong-Adwent (@ednapiranha, LinkedIn), Rocketr
5. Josh Davey (@joshdavey, LinkedIn), BurstN & Chango
6. Alex Black (@waterlooalexjo, LinkedIn), SnapSort
7. Cody Fauser (@codyfauser, LinkedIn), Shopify
8. Vincent Cheung (@veenix, LinkedIn), ShapeCollage
9. Wes Bos (@wesbos, LinkedIn), DealPage
10. Michael Litt (@michaelrlitt, LinkedIn), Vidyard
11. James Stewart (@JamesStewartUXD, LinkedIn), PostRank & TribeHR
12. Julie Haché (@juliehache, LinkedIn), Shopify
13. Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana (@dups, LinkedIn), EmpireAvenue
14. Joseph Fung (@josephfung, LinkedIn), TribeHR
15. Andrew Peek (@drupeek, LinkedIn), Rocketr
16. Simon Law (@sfllaw, LinkedIn), TrustCentric
17. Eric Diep (@ediep, LinkedIn), A Thinking Ape
18. James Blair (@jamesblair, LinkedIn)
19. Edward Ocampo-Gooding (@edwardog, LinkedIn), Shopify
20. Satish Kanwar (@skanwar, LinkedIn), Jet Cooper
21. Jesse Miller (@jesse_miller, LinkedIn), Attachments.me
22. Josh Merchant (@joshmerchant, LinkedIn), Lymbix
23. Boris Chan (@borisc, LinkedIn), XtremeLabs
24. Tyler Galpin (@TylerGalpin, LinkedIn)

This list is incomplete

I am completely aware that this list is incomplete. But who are the tastemakers that are building the next generation of emerging technology companies that no one knows about in Canada. Help me find great talents that are under 40 (this is irrelevant, who are the entrepreneurs, designers and developers that are shaping things) and based in Canada.