Watch GoGaRuCo Live!
Watch GoGaRuCo presentations live at www.justin.tv/confreaks
Friday 9/16, 9:30am - 6:00pm PDT
Saturday 9/17, 9:30am - 6:00pm PDT
Speakers
Yehuda Katz
Keynote: On Building Frameworks
Yehuda Katz is a member of the SproutCore, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; during the daytime, he works as Chief Technologist at Strobe. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, the upcoming Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open source—his main projects, along with others, like Thor, Handlebars and Janus—or traveling the world doing evangelism work. He blogs at http://yehudakatz.com and can be found on Twitter as @wycats.
José Valim
Keynote: Writing your own programming language to understand Ruby better
José Valim (@josevalim) is a Rails Core member and author of Crafting Rails Applications. Also, he is the lead-developer of Plataforma Tec, a Ruby on Rails consultancy firm based in Brazil. He started working with Ruby in late 2006 and since then he's been working on several open source projects.
Tim Anglade
CouchDB & Ruby: You're Doing It Wrong
Tim Anglade is a snarky Frenchman who was into Ruby before it was cool. In a previous life, he was an independent consultant who designed, implemented and maintained several Ruby apps in production, some of them for 5+ years. He now works for a CouchDB Hosting and Analytics company called Cloudant and when he's not helping customers or making bad puns, he can be found speaking at conferences such as OSCON, Fosdem, Buzzwords and NOSQL East. In his spare time, he created the NOSQL Summer and the NOSQL Tapes (they're pretty obscure—you've probably never heard of them).
Wesley Beary
API: Assumptions Probably Incorrect
Wesley Beary (geemus) is an avid Rubyist and Open source enthusiast. He spends his days developing fog at Engine Yard and spends much (probably too much) of his free time working on other open source projects.
Jeff Casimir
Jeff Casimir travels the world preaching the good word of Ruby for his company, Jumpstart Lab. He interacts with hundreds of developers and dozens of teams each year, pushing his research into best practices and new ideas.
David Copeland
Test-drive the development of your command-line applications
David Copeland is a veteran software developer with over 15 years of professional development experience, starting on UNIX and C, moving into Java, and now using Java, Ruby, and Scala on a daily basis for energy-efficiency startup OPOWER in Washington, DC. He's so enamored of the command-line, that he's working on the definitive book on Ruby command-line applications for the Pragmatic Programmers as we speak. He firmly believes in getting things done quickly, not making a mess, and leaving things better than how he found them.
Ryan Dy
Ruby/JavaScript and the mobile web
Ryan works for Pivotal Labs, where he's been building mobile applications using new tools and techniques. Before doing web development, he worked in 3D graphics on game consoles for Activision. He's interested to see how his former and current focuses are starting to converge. Ryan currently lives in San Francisco's Mission district.
Chris Eppstein
Sass: The future of stylesheets
Chris Eppstein is the Software Architect at Caring.com, the creator of the Compass stylesheet framework, and a Sass core team member. Chris is an active member of the Ruby open source community having created or contributed to over 50 open source projects.
Ron Evans
KidsRuby: Think Of The Children
Ron is a well-known software developer and blogger who has been very active in the Ruby community for the last five years. As ringleader of the Hybrid Group, he has been helping clients solve some of their most difficult problems, both technical and business. In 2009-2010, Ron was a very active speaker, presenting at industry conferences such as RubyConf, FutureRuby, Ignite, 140 THE Twitter Conference, Los Angeles Ruby Conference, Conferencia Rails, and TWTRCON. He has been featured in Computerworld in the article "Rock Star Coders" (January 22, 2008) for his popular blog post "I'd Rather Be A Jazz Programmer". He has also written articles for MSNBC, BYTE Magazine, and the Direct Marketing Association, as well as being an active code contributor to many open source projects.
Ilya Grigorik
0-60 with Goliath: Building High Performance Ruby Web-Services
Ilya Grigorik is a developer, an open-source and Ruby evangelist, a data-geek, and a proverbial early adopter of all things digital. Now living in the Bay Area, Ilya is working on Social Analytics at Google. Prior to joining Google, Ilya was founder and CTO of PostRank, a social web analytics company, which was acquired by Google earlier this year. Currently, in his free time Ilya is scheming on how to bring Ruby to Google!
Dave Grijalva
Go for the Rubyist: Appropriation of Great Ideas in Ruby
Dave Grijalva is Director of Platform Technology at ngmoco:). With nearly ten years of experience as a software engineer and architect, Dave is well versed in API design, web applications, and scalable systems. At ngmoco:), Dave is responsible for the Mobage social entertainment platform (formerly plus+), which supports over 25 million registered users.
Corey Haines
After 12 years of coding for money, Corey Haines said enough and went on a year-long, journeyman pair-programming tour. Traveling the world, pair-programming for room and board, he spent his time teaching, learning and just living as a knowledge-cross-pollinating, little, software craftsmanship bee. For the past three years, Corey has focused his attention on helping developers improve their fundamental software design skills through the use of focused-practice events, such as coderetreat. Lately, Corey has been shifting his attention to getting kids excited about programming through building games in Scratch.
Konstantin Haase
Smalltalk On Rubinius - or How To Implement Your Own Programming Language
As current maintainer of Sinatra, Konstantin is an Open Source developer by heart. Ruby has become his language of choice since 2005. He actively participates in the Ruby community and regularly contributes to different, widespread projects, like Rubinius, Rack and Redcar. In 2010, he successfully took part in the Ruby Summer Of Code, working on Rails internals. Konstantin is currently studying IT Systems Engineering at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, and works part time as a software engineer at finnlabs in Berlin.
Erica Kwan
Failing Fast - Stuff We Should have Done Better at Square
Erica is a developer at Square, a company making everyday transactions between buyers and sellers, simpler. She's been writing Ruby for years and is pretty okay at it. Currently, she acts as the tech-lead on Square's support engineering team, teaches her non-engineer co-workers how to program and carries a plush duck around with her during the day.
Tyler McMullen
Distributed Systems Primer with Ruby
Tyler McMullen dreams about data structures and distributed systems. He enjoys long walks on the beach with Tries, uses Bloom Filters in anger, and causes more segfaults in a day than most people see in a lifetime. He worked on the systems at Scribd, and now hacks on the big distributed system that is Fastly.
Chris Strom
Chris is the organizer of the B'more on Rails user group in Maryland. He is an obsessive public learner as evidenced by more than 600 blog posts on topics ranging from CouchDB to Raphaël.js. Chris is a contributor on both the Ruby SPDY gem and the node-spdy package. He is the author of the SPDY Book.
