Who will share their knowledge with us.
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Yehuda Katz Engineyard
Yehuda Katz is currently employed by Engine Yard, and works full time as a Core Team Member on the Rails project. He is the co-author of jQuery in Action and the upcoming Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on Rails, but also on other Ruby community projects, like Rubinius and Datamapper. And when the solution doesn't yet exist, he'll try his hand at creating one - as such, he's also created projects like Thor and DO.rb.
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Sean Cribbs Basho
Sean Cribbs has been programming Ruby since 2006 and for a while led the development of Radiant CMS. Nowadays he codes the Ruby client and supports and educates the community and customers of Basho's Riak database.
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Carl Lerche Engineyard
Until Carl Lerche discovered Ruby on Rails in 2005 he thought he would never do web development again. It was Ruby that lured him back into programming and open source development. Currently, he spends much of his time at Engine Yard contributing to Rails, and in his free time, to many side projects.
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Joseph Wilk Songkick
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he finally found Ruby. He now spends his time in-between eating Cucumbers working at www.songkick.com. Having more fun than is healthy working as a Software Gardener building web systems and working on open source projects. He suffers from test obsession and has given up hope of any treatment.
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Drew Neil
Drew Neil has been involved with the Radiant community since 2007, working for a number of web agencies as well as collaborating on open source projects such as Fat Free CRM and various Radiant extensions. In 2009 he founded Vimcasts.org, a series of free screencasts about the text editor, Vim. In 2010 he went freelance. He works on a *pro bono* basis for the West Port Book Festival and is also the creator of All-Sorts.org, the website that harvests *terms of venery* from Twitter. He'll be happy if you ask him about the collective noun for pirates. Arrrr.
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Cristi Duma
Creator of RadiantCasts, developer and contributor to Radiant CMS custom extensions; using Ruby on Rails for about 2 years;
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Timothy Payton Xing
Timothy Payton is a software engineer at XING, the leading European online business network. Loves all things Ruby and Rails. Never beginning with the simple solution, but always breaking into a grin when it surfaces. He also enjoys heart meditation and relaxing with his family. Additionally, he is working on Wallsome, a Task Wall for Basecamp projects.
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Sebastian Roebke Xing
Sebastian Roebke works as a software engineer at XING, the leading European online business network. Hasn't been able to let go of Web Development since 2000. Studied Business Information Systems before going full-time with Ruby and Rails. He likes playing electronic music and drinking peppermint liqueur, which goes well together. Additionally, he is working on Wallsome, a Task Wall for Basecamp projects.
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Anthony Heukmes Intotheweb
Anthony Heukmes discovered Ruby and Rails in 2007 and he never stopped using these technologies since then. At that time he was working as a Java developer but he quickly convinced his management to give Rails a try. It was a big challenge : Integrate Rails in a J2EE enterprise, full of legacy Oracle databases, Java formatted developers and Windows servers. Things went very well, development times were reduced and developers happiness was increased. This successful story decided Anthony to promote Ruby and Rails in our countries, that's why he signed a contract with Eyrolles to publish a book on Rails 3 in french. Anthony is now self-employed, he created his own company : IntoTheWeb. Their main activities are : web development using Ruby, Rails and Javascript and iPhone development. IntoTheWeb also offers trainings and consultancy missions.
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Elise Huard Jabberwocky
founder at Jabberwocky After her studies in metallurgy, Elise realized jobs in that sector were not her cup of tea, and she looked for jobs in an earlier interest, software. Since then, she's been rolling through jobs in C, C++, Java, a master in AI, before falling in love with Ruby and going freelance. 10 years of software have helped her get a firm understanding on what works, what doesn't, and what will make you cry bloody tears on nights before deadlines. She's a jack of all trades, loves reading, tinkering, food, travel, learning, and people out of the ordinary.
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Alain Ravet Vasco
Alain is a IT consultant, with 5y of Rails experience and he currently works for Vasco, in Mechelen.