Who is Irina Dumitrascu? I am a geek girl from Romania; I like to program, travel and walk on mountains. In the last year and a half I was lucky to do all of them while visiting South America together with my boyfriend, [Cristi], as semi-nomad freelancers. I am shy, deliberative, and intellectual. If I [...]
Who is Jack Danger Canty? Jack is an overprivileged urban male in Seattle who writes code and loves personal growth of all kinds. Danger is his middle name.
Who Jose Ignacio Costa? I’m a Software Engineer from Montevideo, Uruguay, and Co-Founder of WyeWorks where I office as senior developer, consultant and manager.
Who is Zack Hobson? I am a professional software developer, originally from Los Angeles. I’ve been working in database-backed web applications for most of my career, which has been going on for about 15 years (including a 3-year break after the 2000 tech bubble burst). My current employer ENTP is responsible for the products Lighthouse [...]
Who is Erik Michaels-Ober? I’m a software developer and entrepreneur living in San Francisco. You may know me as sferik on IRC, GitHub, or Twitter. I’m currently a Fellow at Code for America. I also hack on a number of open-source software projects, including RailsAdmin, Thor, Faraday, MultiXML, Octokit, the Twitter gem and the recently-kickstarted [...]
Who is Giles Bowkett? Giles Bowkett is a thriving programmer, a struggling actor, a prolific blogger, a once and future information marketer, and a former DJ whose vinyl records simply did not sell, at all. He’s writing a book on how to create algorithmic music with Ruby. He expects it to sell, because people have [...]
Who is Marcin Bunsch? A geek with an open mind who’s greatest passion is coding. I’m a new tech junkie and I’ve made a career out of it. I’m the R&D Manager at FutureSimple, the company behind Pipejump and Quotebase.
Who is James Edward Gray? My dad. That and the fact that James Gray is a super common name are the main reasons you usually see me go by my full name: James Edward Gray II. As for who I am, I’m just a programmer. I don’t think of myself as much more involved than [...]
Who is Salvatore Sanfilippo? I’m a programmer based in Sicily, Italy, 33 years old. I believe that programming is a fight against complexity, and that reinventing the wheel is a good thing. I work for VMware, my goal is to develop the Redis data structure server.
Who is Eloy Durán? A 29 years old Dutch guy with Bolivian heritage, born and raised in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), for whom the world revolves around musical rhythms. Not a hardcore geek, or at least never thought of myself as a geek. Yet, here I am, so there you go. Where and when did you [...]
Who is Aaron Patterson? (Please read this in a film noir voice) Aaron Patterson is a man. A man driven slightly mad from being forced to program Java for too many years. He grew up on the streets of Salt Lake City, just a mile past the wrong side of the tracks. A place where [...]
Who is Sean Cribbs? I’m a developer and music geek. I maintained and directed Radiant CMS for just over two years, and I’m currently the author and maintainer of Ripple, a collection of gems that help you connect your Rails 3 applications to Riak, a distributed key-value store product that is made by my employer, [...]
Who is Peter Cooper? If anyone official asks, I’m a software developer, but in reality I’m a publisher and author who now only does a little software development on the side. I’m not particularly well known for any one thing but have a lot of different projects going at the same time. I’m the editor [...]
Who is Paul Dix? I’m the author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails, a VP at a financial data startup in NYC called Benchmark Solutions, the organizer of the NYC Machine Learning meetup, and the author of several Ruby gems including Typhoeus and Feedzirra. My programming interests generally fall into one of two [...]
Who is Agata Mazur? Professionally: I am a young entrepreneur (and since I was 21!), manager and a senior Ruby on Rails developer from Kraków, Poland. I started my journey through the IT world four years ago. The very first company I helped to found at the age of 20 is Applicake, a Ruby on [...]
Who is Corey Donohoe? Some dude who happens like to programming. I work at GitHub, an amazing website dedicated to software collaboration. I love disruptive and irreverent things. One of my friends in SF described me to his wife as a grown up skater punk.
Who is Santiago Pastorino? I’m a member of the Rails core team and co-founder of WyeWorks a Ruby on Rails consultancy shop. You can find me as spastorino on Twitter and Github. I’m an OSS fan and live in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Who is Ola Bini? Ola Bini is a Swedish developer with a large interest in programming languages. He spends most of his time focusing specifically on languages such as Java, Ruby and his own languages.
Who is José Valim? @josevalim An open source developer, a speaker, a musician and an entrepreneur. I’m co-founder and lead developer at Plataforma Tecnologia – a development and consultancy company focused on Ruby and Rails, based in Brazil – and a Rails Core Team member. I am happily living in Kraków with my wife!
Who is Kevin Gisi? Kevin W. Gisi is a software engineer, Eau Claire Ruby User Group co-founder, Rails Rumble administrator, open-source advocate, piano accompanist, and nice guy.
Who is Tekkub? I’m a whiny, lazy, hermit of a programmer that lives on a “mountain” in Golden, CO. I run GitHub’s tech support and do some Ruby on Rails programming on the side. I also have a *small* collection of World of Warcraft addons I’ve written over the years. I live with my partner [...]
Who is Robey Pointer? An infrastructure engineer at Twitter (@robey). Recently, I’ve been on the FlockDB & Gizzard teams there, and in the past I’ve done things like kestrel, paramiko, and eggdrop. I live in the Mission district of San Francisco, where I like to hang out at the local whiskey bars, but I grew [...]
Who is John Nunemaker? I am a farm boy, turned web developer, who has fallen deeply in love with Ruby and MongoDB. I work at Ordered List with Steve Smith and teach JavaScript at the University of Notre Dame. I reside in South Bend, IN with my wife, Stephanie, and a couple crazy cats, Bob [...]
Who is Ryan Bates? I host and produce Railscasts, free Ruby on Rails screencasts which are released every Monday. Teaching is my passion, and I love doing it through screencasts.
Who is Dr Nic Williams? I tentatively started referring to myself as ‘Dr Nic’ in 2006 on forums and blog comments after I created my blog http://drnicwilliams.com I acquired that domain only because some clown had just taken http://nicwilliams.com Similarly, I wasn’t able to get nicwilliams@gmail.com when I created an account. My history online shows [...]
