Diogo Terror
Software developer for 4 years, he has been using several tools in Python, Ruby and Java.
Currently works for Boo-box, dealing with architecture and code scalability challenges.
Saulo Arruda
Saulo Arruda is a partner and co-founder of Jera. He is the mastermind behind his company's web products and talks about game and mobile development. He is also an organizer for events and founder of the Campo Grande, MS user group.
Ian McFarland
Ian was working on worldwide distributed hypertext systems with Ted Nelson a couple years before Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web, HTTP, and HTML. He was on the launch team at HotWired, the first company to bring a revenue model to the Internet. (Banner ads. Yes, we still use them. 468x60 for evar!) He was employee #4 at Friendster, the company that kicked off this whole Social Media thing. And for the seven years Ian was at Pivotal Labs, he's been sharing insights into agile development with companies large and small, and as VP of Technology helped to grow Pivotal Labs from a small company to a world renowned team of over 100 developers. Since Joining Digital Garage at its CTO in August, he's taken these ideas back to Japan, the country where both Lean and Ruby come from. He is more likely to be found in San Francisco than any other city, though your odds are probably about 50/50.
Bruno Oliveira
He is a language agnostic developer, TorqueBox contributor currently working with Java and Ruby systems integration
Evan Henshaw
Founder of Cubox S.A., previously architect of Yahoo Fire Eagle and main developer of Odeo.com, one of the first big enterprises based on Ruby on Rails, from where Twitter originated.
Lucas Rosa Galego
A KISS principle enthusiast and also in love for programming languages.
Currently is part of the Globo.com team developing real time web analytics tools.
Nick Sutterer
Nick Sutterer appreciates the beauty of elegant code, and the value of open source software. Through his tireless development and advocacy of the Cells and Apotomo gems, he has brought the concepts of component-oriented UI development to the world of Rails, proving that there should be no such thing as a double-render error, and that one need not be slave to the great monolithic view mentality. Also, he would like to have beer with you.
Ivan Acosta-Rubio
Begotten in a Island, born in the city, learned to walk in boat. Founder @bakedweb and @esturistico.
Nigel Fernandes
Nigel is a senior consultant and asylum inmate at ThoughtWorks Australia.
In the last five years he has worked across the UK, Germany, Australia and India with start-ups, global telecommunication leaders, e-commerce giants and even high profile government agencies.
He received Ruby enlightenment in 2006 and after years in Java and .Net wastelands, he's decided to atone for his past. His focus for the last few years has been introducing Ruby into traditional enterprise Java stacks.
Robson Júnior
Develops software for enjoyment, natural born idealist, he believes in human values and that software é more about the human than any other science. He graduated in Information Systems, did graduate studies in Software Engineering, and got a master's degree in Software Engineering at ITA, in São José dos Campos, SP. He has special interest in patterns to adopt agile methodologies and hypermedia systems. He works with software development for 9 years and with geographic information systems for 5 years. He is one of the AgileVale conference organizer (the first conference on agile methodologies and software engineering in the region of Vale do Paraíba, SP) and other conferences on software and entrepreneurship. He talks in Brazilian and international events about GIS and also actively collaborates in events and the Brazilian community.
Martyn Loughran
Martyn is the CTO of Pusher, a startup from London helping developers make the web realtime. He's an eventmachine enthusiast, and is the author of too many gems starting with the "em-" prefix! He tweets, reluctantly, as @mloughran.
Rodrigo Franco
Rodrigo Franco is a brazilian web application developer and living proof of the viability of trans-ocean geekitude. He's spent the last decade working on projects around the world, including Odeo.com, Moourl.com and Chargify. He created one of the biggest Ruby on Rails communities in Brazil. In his free time, Rodrigo enjoys extending his geek tentacles to other realms such as MMORPGs, boardgames, and searching for the perfect coffee.
Roberto Rodriguez Artavia
Roberto Rodriguez is a web developer who enjoys learning modern development technologies and applying them to enterprise and direct consumer scenarios.
An enterprise consultant that develops CRM.ERP solutions for innovative customers, but mostly an entrepreneur trying to do some good by creating constructive social networking and profesional collaboration applications that allow people to use the Internet to share knowledge.
Currently engaged in the development of Robust Javascript Frontend Applications and Rails powered backends with MongoDb and Salesforce.com.
Collaborating in the improvement of Open Source Javascript Frameworks , JS OOP Coffeescript, etc.
Lives and works from the Rainforest of Costa Rica while surfing, playing football and working on his NonProfit Foundation
Ivan Moscoso
Ivan has worked at several startups and consulting companies before joining Groupon in 2009, where he is currently Director of Engineering. He has worked on everything from scheduling algorithms to iOS apps, and is a big believer in software development as a team sport.
He holds degrees in Computer Science and Writing. His hobbies include photography, iOS programming, and drinking anything with bourbon in it.
Roberto Pepato
Roberto Pepato Mellado works with software development for more than 13 years, he is graduated in Computer Science, specialized in object-oriented systems and has an MBA in project management. He is currently pursuing his master's degree in the field of research about the relationship between software quality and agile methodologies. Throughout his career he worked in client-server systems, web, worked with several languages/platforms (from Clipper to Ruby on Rails). Currently works with information systems development and geographic inteligence. He is a member of AgileVale (the first agile methodologies conference in the region of Vale do Paraíba, SP), he is also a speaker and active collaborator in conferences related to software development and agile methodologies. Self-learner, frustrated guitar player, jazz fan, Monty Python addicted, loves Minas Gerais' coffee and chooses Guinness as the best beer in the world.
Douglas Campos
Qmx (aka. Douglas) is a developer at intelie and instructor at caelum. opensource-addicted, contributes to several oss projects, like JRuby, VRaptor, Restfulie and many more. dyn.js creator.
Ricardo Bernardelli
Software developer, he works with Ruby on Rails since 2007. Graduated in Computer Sciente, agile enthusiast and technology lover. In his free time, he is musician and plays table tennis.
Daniel Lopes
Partner of Objetiva Software, Daniel has been involved in the IT market for almost a decade. He works as UI designer and Web developer leaning towards Ruby/Javascript and front-end. He is also an instructor for trainings in partnership with Egenial and also a teacher for the graduate studies in Web Development for UNA-BH.
Leonardo Borges
A programming languages enthusiast, Leonardo Borges loves writing code,
and has even contributed to a few open-source projects.
Currently undertaking the challenges of consulting at ThoughtWorks Australia,
he also blogs about geeky stuff,
plays the guitar and does something stupid like
skydiving,
rafting or
rock climbing whenever he can.
Carlos Brando
Carlos Brando is hooked on programming and currently Senior Engineer at Plano Bê.
He has been developing software for over thirteen years, starting out in Visual Basic and moving on to C, C++, Java, C#, and now Ruby and Erlang. He has worked for a number of companies, including Portugal Telecom Group, AT&T Latin America, DirecTV, SKY, VISA, Surgeworks LLC. and Amanaiê.
He’s also responsible for the Grok Podcast, a weekly podcast about programming and entrepreneurship at a higher level.
Lucas Húngaro
He is a software developer with 10 years of experience and he has been writing Ruby code since early 2007.
His focus is minimalism applied to code, focusing on how OOP principles can help us create beautiful and flexible architectures.
He gave talks about Ruby and BDD at Dev in Sampa 2011, TDC São Paulo 2011, TDC Florianópolis 2011, RubyConf Brazil 2010, Dev in Sampa 2010, and FISL 2009.
Currently he works as developer and architect at GoNow Tecnologia.
Rafael Felix
Graduated in Computer Science, in love with software development and currently works at Crafters
Has worked with many different programming languages, such as Delphi, C#, VB, PHP e Java, but was in Ruby he found the passion for programming and has been studying Backbone.js to improve the software that he develops
Nando Vieira
Nando Vieira writes abour Rails since 2006 at Simples Ideias, one of the most well known blog about the subject in Brazil. Founder of Hellobits, he's been through several companies such as Locaweb, UOL, and Abril. Presented talks in many software development events such as Rails Summit, Ceará on Rails, Oxente Rails, BrazilJS, and DevInSampa. He also founded Codeplane and HOWTO, and maintains dozens of open source projects.
José Valim
José Valim is the co-founder and tech-leader for Plataforma Tecnologia (@plataformatec) and also member of the Rails Core Team. He did work with PHP, .NET and since 2007 he is devoted to Ruby and Rails development. Because of his collaboration on several open source projects, Valim received the Ruby Hero Awards in 2010 and he is also the first Brazilian to have a published book (Crafting Rails Applications) by The Pragmatic Programmers. It's worthy checking out his work at blog.plataformatec.com.br.
Saurabh Bhatia
Saurabh Bhatia is a founder of Safew Labs a Ruby and Rails Consulting firm based in Mumbai, India. He has been an active user, proponent of Ruby and Rails since 2006. He is one of the founders and Moderators of Bangalore Ruby User Group, Organizer of Mumbai Ruby Meetup and active part of many communities like RailsBridge. In his free time he contributes to opensource. Shoes, activemerchant, signalwiki are some of the projects he likes working with.
Marcos Toledo
Marcos is a rubyist currently working on ForexDesk, a ruby based foreign exchange social trading platform. He previously worked on software that ranges from cell phone towers, to national scale hospitals web services infrastructure, to real time poker servers, all of which has given him a good share of experience solving issues with transactions, racing conditions, or both at the same time.
Diogo Biazus
Founder of Engage and co-maintainer of the Mailee.me application. Has been developing Rails applications with PostgreSQL for about 5 years. A half software developer and half database administrator.
Fernando Hamasaki
Fernando Hamasaki (also known as Prodis) is a Ruby and Rails software developer and the tech-leader of the WebStore development team, the e-commerce product offered by Locaweb.
Graduated in Web Technologies from FIAP, he works with web development since 2000 where he experienced several platforms and languages such as .NET, Java, Javascript, PHP and ASP. In 2010 he presented at the FISL conference about free software usage in commercial products.
He is the editor on Ruby Fundamental blog at the IT Web portal, and also maintains his Prodis' Blog, where he writes about software development and sports.
Enjoys playing basketball, the sport that brought him lots of friends and joy.
Eric Fer
Eric Fer is a Project Consultant at Abril Publishing, mentor in Core Ruby courses at RubyLearning.org, author and co-author of Ruby open source projects. Recently colaborated in the development of the core distributed system of Abril Publishing.
David A. Black
David is a long-time Ruby developer, author, trainer, speaker, and event organizer. He started using Ruby in 2000, and in 2002 became one of the founding directors of Ruby Central, Inc., the parent organization of RubyConf and RailsConf.
Konstantin Haase
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. When he's not studying IT Systems Engineering at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, he's either in Berlin working for finnlabs as a Rails developer or in Portland, Oregon, working on Rubinius for Engine Yard.
Marcelo Manzan
Marcelo Manzan is a technical consultant for Editora Abril, he deals with many projects from Abril Mídias, mentoring and supporting the development teams. He also maintains some open source projects, most of them geared towards Ruby on Rails applications.
Luis Gustavo
Graduated in Electronic and Telecomunications from CEETEPS, he is a self taught programmer who loves programming and working with new technologies and programming languages.
He had his first contact with computer in 1997. After this magical experience he started his journey in computing world learning about Unix, Linux, Windows, Assembly, C, C++, HTML, Javascript, XML, Ruby, Python, C#, VB, Delphi, Parsers, Virtual Machines, compilers, a little bit of hardware too and a lot of other things.
Koichiro Eto
Media Artist / Research Scientist. I produced "WebHopper" in sensorium project, and we won the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica in 1997. I joined the team for creating "A Hands-on Model of the Internet" at Miraikan in 2001. I published a book "Patterns, Wiki, and XP: The Timeless Way of Creation" in 2009. Ph.D. (Information Science and Technology).
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