Who is Dion Almaer? I am a Brit who came over to the US for college. I took my American wife back to life in London for a year, and have lived in each of the timezones in the continental US, ending up in silicon valley where I reside now. I grew up playing cricket [...]
Who is PJ Hyett? A simple man with big dreams.
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 Rick Olson? Part open source programmer, father of one, and comic book fanboy. I live in Portland, OR, and work at GitHub. Before that, I launched two bootstrapped web products as the lead developer.
Who is Chad Fowler? I’m a husband, programmer, musician, learner, teacher, author, (spoken) language enthusiast, recent fitness junkie, and aspiring retiree. I am CTO for InfoEther by day a director for Ruby Central, for which I co-organize the official Ruby and Rails conferences. I also teach for Pragmatic Studio with Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic [...]
Who is Wynn Netherland? I’m a Christian husband and father who can’t believe he gets paid to do what he truly loves to do – coding on the front-end of the Interwebs.
Who is Stephan Schmidt? I’m head of development at brands4friends, a shopping club or flash ecommerce site. We sell mainly clothes for reduced prices and a limited time, like a summer sale every day. Beside that I’m a programmer, blogger and speaker at conferences.
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 Steve Jenson? A programmer living in San Francisco, CA. I write software in Scala and Ruby at Twitter, Inc where I work on the Infrastructure team.
Who is Alex Payne? I’m a software developer, programmer, engineer, or whatever you want to call the thing where you write code all day and dream about code all night and get paid for it. I’ve been programming professionally since I was too young to legally hold a work permit. I love what I do. [...]
Who is Marius Danciu? I’m a programmer coming from Java world. I’ve been designing and architecting server side applications for more then 8 years. I fell in love with Scala a few years ago and for more than 2 years I’m a LiftWeb comitter enjoying every minute of it. I’m a co-author for “The Definitive [...]
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 [...]
Who is Anil Wadghule? Anil is 26 year old programmer, hacker. He loves writing programs. Specially likes writing useful plugins, libraries. Over the last few years, he has become programming language obsessive and likes to learn new programming languages. Academically he has done engineering in Computer Science. He works for a software company in Pune.
Who is David Pollak? A dad. A geek by birth. A lawyer by training. I’ve been doing software for pay since 1977 starting on the Apple ][, fell in love with NextStep, then Java, then Ruby/Rails and finally Scala.
Who’s Matt Aimonetti? I’m a developer/hacker working mainly with Ruby. Over the years I have been involved with many popular Ruby projects such as Merb, Rails, MacRuby and many others.
Who’s David Heinemeier Hansson? I’m the creator of the web-framework Ruby on Rails and a partner at 37signals. I’m originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, but have lived in the US for the last four years.
Who’s Less? The beautiful and charming Steven Bristol and I founded Less, a company that builds simple web based applications for your business.
Who’s Leah? I’m a hacker and lover of beautiful websites. I’m also a blogger and a silly person.
Who’s Chris? Chris is a 24 year old programmer living in San Francisco, CA. He works at GitHub, which he co-founded, and likes coffee.
Who’s Thomas? I’m a tinkerer. I like to explore possibilities, especially those the other people say are impossible to do.
Who’s Fabio Akita? I’ve been both a project manager for 7 years and software developer and architect for more than 10 years now. I am currently a Ruby on Rails Activist although I consider myself pretty technology agnostic and I am always interested in the bleeding edge. I advocate the Agile philosophy and I created [...]
