Benjamin is a developer at Pivotal Labs. He has a strong passion for TDD, pairing, Agile and using technologies that get out of the programmer’s way (or the programmer out of the way). When not writing code, he follows his other passions into the outdoors to rock climb, back country snowboard, kayak and surf.
A Ruby on Rails developer for the last 4 years, I currently work at Engine Yard as the US-East Team Lead and Community Lead for their world-class Application Support team. Additionally, I organize the Western New York Ruby Brigade. Traveling to conferences and Ruby meet ups around the US and Canada, I like to spread the word on the importance of community and coding, stressing the importance of outreach and focusing on the human side of being a coder.
Jérémy has been a web developer for 12 years, passionate about all things relating to the web tech and always curious about new things to learn and use in his work and play. He has lead a small team for 4 years that use a heady mix of old and new tech on a site that helps search for and compare hotels. Jérémy is a Code Retreat facilitator and a core member of both Provence Linux User Group (PLUG) and Pastis Ruby Brigade in Marseille.
Joshua has worked with Objective-C since 2002 and Ruby since 2004. He has built operating systems with Apple, local news websites with AOL, and somehow managed to finish a Ph.D. along the way. Currently, Joshua is Chief Scientist at Burnside Digital where he works with an amazing team of engineers and designers to solve problems for a wide range of clients. He works and lives in Ankara.
Born in the south of France, raised in the wild with cats and dogs with Apple computers and Tolkien stories. Difficult to avoid the family trade and by 2000 he was writing code and compiling kernels. After riding a dragon and crossed Oz by train he came back to old Europe to write articles and solve problems in Ruby.
Michael is a developer evangelist at Twilio, helping people embrace cloud communications. He loves anything that can be programmed, especially things that can be connected into Lego. Prior to Twilio, Michael was consulting in the City of London - mostly building other peoples' websites. He was once involved in Telecoms R&D, and has a guilt-inducing software patent around the Linux IP Stack. He is forever looking for good causes to contribute code to, and always looking to iterate and make stuff better!
Arne is a professional software developer focused on web development. He's been passionate about Ruby since 2006, but has only really become involved in the community after moving to Berlin in 2012. He has worked in various fields, from e-commerce for telecom, concert tickets and resale, to medical OCR/OMR applications, and has made contributions to several Free and Open Source projects. His personal interests include both natural and formal languages, and he spent the best of two years in the far east learning to speak and write Chinese.
Vincent is a mobile developer focused on iOS, but he also builds websites from time to time. He lives in the beautiful city of Lyon and he works at Shazino, where he explores various Web Services in the name of Science. He also builds his own iOS apps at Studio AMANgA. Vincent loves looking at pixels, and things from outer space.
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