Speakers
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Brandon Weaver
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon OneMedical
Brandon is a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon's OneMedical focused on enhancing the healthcare provider experience. He's an Amazon AI champion working to define standards and guidance as AI technologies rapidly evolve, and a pragmatist ensuring safer paths to integration.
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Drew Bragg
Senior Developer @ Podia and Host of the Code and the Coding Coders who Code it podcast
Drew is a Senior Product Developer at Podia. He is the host of the podcast “Code and the Coding Coders who Code it”, and a co-organizer of Philly.rb, the Philadelphia Rubyist meetup. When he isn’t hunting for weird Ruby syntax, he enjoys playing Ice Hockey, playing board games with his wife and daughter, and trail running with his dog, named Matz of course.
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André Arko
@indirect
André thinks Ruby is pretty neat. He's been using Ruby since 2003, Rails since 2004, and on the Bundler team since 2009. In 2015, he wrote _The Ruby Way_ (3rd Ed.) and started Ruby Together, a community non-profit. These days, he works at Spinel.coop, the home of flat-rate unlimited access to experts from the core teams of Rails, Stimulus, Hotwire Native, Bundler, RubyGems, and more.
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Christine Seeman
Staff Software Engineer at SOFware
Christine is a lifetime learner from Omaha, NE (in the middle of the USA), where she likes to read too much and eats food that probably took too long to prepare. Professionally she’s helping solve problems on the small but mighty team at SOFware. She loves working with Ruby and Rails, and attempting to get all devs to write longer Git commit messages.
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Erin Pintozzi
Engineering Educator
I’m longtime Rubyist who’s been writing code—and helping others learn to do the same—for nearly a decade. These days, I spend most of my time teaching early-career developers Ruby and Rails. My background spans engineering, project management, and education, but my favorite role is being the person who makes tech feel a little less scary. Whether in the classroom or at a conference, I aim for lessons (and conference talks!) that are practical, engaging, and fun.
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Jeff Cohen
Software Engineer and Entrepreneur
Jeff is a self-taught software engineer going on 30 years now, and a Rubyist since 2006. He runs Purple Workshops, a small software studio in Chicago that build custom software applications in Rails. He also teaches in the Masters Program for Computer Science at the University of Chicago, teaching web development and applied software engineering. He has a particular passion for the learning sciences and helping new developers find solid careers in the software industry.
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Joel Hawksley
Staff Engineer at GitHub
Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on user interface architecture and strategy.
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Jonathan Woodard
Game Designer and Software Engineering Leader
Jonathan has two published tabletop board games, and has been solo-developing Galactic Impact since 2020.
Professionally, he led technology at a variety of startups for ten years before going 'big tech' as a Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian.
Find him and his wife riding their three-year-old around Boulder on a cargo e-bike. -
Max VelDink
Staff Software Engineer @ Shopify
I am a staff software engineer who has created full-stack web applications for more than a decade. My focus is on combining the best of object-oriented and functional philosophies while meditating on novel architecture approaches, especially for Ruby applications.
Teaching the next generation of Rubyists is incredibly important to me, and I'm currently thinking through modern Ruby courses to replace the Ruby boot camps that have gone out of favor. -
Phillip Campbell
People Empowerer at Gusto
Phillip Campbell is a People Empowerer at Gusto, where he leads two developer productivity teams focused on Rails and background processing. One of his teams maintains the infrastructure behind Sidekiq and Karafka for Gusto, supporting 600+ engineers and millions of async jobs per day. Phillip cares deeply about reliability, developer experience, and building systems that make it hard to do the wrong thing.
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Ratnadeep Deshmane
Software Craftsman @ BetaCraft Technologies
I am Ratnadeep aka rtdp, a software craftsman and an entrepreneur, working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails for the past 17 years. I run a Rails consulting company - BetaCraft Technologies. Before starting this company I was working as a digital nomad, in which I changed my location every few weeks, coding Ruby on weekdays and exploring places on weekends. Before that, I was running a startup, building a venture-funded product AppSurfer. Find me to talk about anything related to Ruby/Rails good practices, startups, remote work, travel, or mechanical keyboards.
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Scott Werner
CEO and co-founder of Sublayer
Scott is the CEO and co-founder of Sublayer, a Ruby AI agent framework. Previously he was CTO and co-founder of Sayspring (acq'd by Adobe) and an early engineer at Sidetour (acq'd by Groupon).
He's spent over 10 years working professionally in Ruby and as a software engineer and engineering leader primarily focused on creating highly productive small teams, most recently using that expertise to build the team behind Adobe Podcast. -
Sean Collins
Independent consultant
Sean has been building web applications in Ruby for over a decade.
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Tess Griffin
Senior Developer at thoughtbot
Tess has been a Ruby on Rails developer for 10 years. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her wife Sage, daughter Ruby, dog Django, cat Merb, and bearded dragon Lizzie.
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Tyler Lemburg
Engineering Manager at Ideon
Engineer, scientist, and all-around good guy, Tyler has been coding in Ruby for 14 years. In his free time, he obsesses over college sports, gets his car ready for track days, and teaches his 3-year-old daughter about garbage collection, AKA picking up her toys.