Charles Nutter
Charles Oliver Nutter co-leads the JRuby project and is one of the three core developers. He joined Sun Microsystems in September 2006 and has since worked to improve and advance JRuby and other dynamic language support on the JVM. Charles has developed in Java for the past decade as well as having written Windows and .NET applications and led the LiteStep project's rewrite in the late 90s. Before coming to Sun, Charles was a lead Java EE architect, and now hopes to make dynamic languages ready for enterprise Java platform development.
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is an application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author of the books Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques, JBuilder 3 Unleashed, Art of Java Web Development, and The 2006 No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developers conferences worldwide. Check out his web site at nealford.com
Stuart Halloway
Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a co-founder of Relevance, Inc. Relevance provides consulting, training, and development services for Ruby, Rails, Ajax, and Agile Java. Stuart is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform. Stuart regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums and the Pragmatic Studio.
Jim Weirich
Jim Weirich has been active in the software development world for over twenty-five years, with experience that ranges from real-time data acquisition for jet engine testing to image processing and web services for the financial industry. Although Jim has experience in C++ and Java/J2EE technologies, his real passion is about delivering business value in a timely and efficient manner, and one of the best ways of doing just that is leveraging the power of Ruby and Rails. Jim is very active in the Ruby community and has contributed to several Ruby projects, including the Rake build system and the RubyGems package software.
Josh Holmes
Josh Holmes is a RIA Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region . Prior to joining Microsoft in October 2006, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on emerging technologies, software design and development with an emphasis on mobility and RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organizations from the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to the Ann Arbor Computer Society and was on the forming committee for CodeMash . You can contact Josh through his blog at http://www.joshholmes.com .
Giles Bowkett
Giles Bowkett is a popular blogger and a developer with experience in several languages.
Randall Thomas
Randall Thomas is a classically trained musician that took one too many calculus classes along the way and got sucked into the sciences. Being both blessed and cursed with a strange form of technology ADD, Randall has worked in various industries with numerous startups: everything from robotics, to low level telecommunications and networking to applied computing for stock trading systems. Randall's most recent obsession with shiny new technology comes in the form of not-quite-yet-mainstream languages like Ruby, Erlang, and OCaml.
Evan Light
Evan Light is a professional software developer for 12 years most of which were dedicated to developing applications for commercial and government enterprises. Having spent several years using C and even more using Java and J2EE (the latter very nearly causing him to give up the software development career path entirely), he considers himself fortunate to have discovered Ruby and to be using it as part of his daily work for nearly two years. Evan is a passionate advocate of developing readable and maintainable code which likely explains his predilection to "spread the gospel" of Ruby to nearly any software developer who will listen.
Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden is the CTO for SDC Hawaii LLC, the company developing chi.mp. Anthony has been developing with Ruby for nearly 3 years and spent 10 years before that developing in Java, Perl and Python. Anthony is a regular contributor to open source projects and has started a variety of open source projects in Ruby, Java and Python.
Michael Letterle
An active contributor to IronRuby, Michael Letterle is an avid technologist and passionate about programming. When not hacking on Ruby, he is a developer at PreEmptive Solutions, and gets paid to work on the Dotfuscator and Runtime Intelligence Platforms. He has been an active member of the .NET community for the past 2.5 years, and most recently was on the planning committee of Cleveland Day of .NET. Michael also likes to try and play the guitar and his Xbox when he's not enjoying time with his wife and two year old daughter.
Brian Sam-Bodden
Brian Sam-Bodden is an author and recognized international speaker that has spent over twelve years working with object technologies, with an emphasis on the Java platform and in recent times falling in love with Ruby. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and is the president and chief software architect for Integrallis , where he focuses on building great applications with Java and Ruby. Brian has worked as an architect, developer, mentor, and trainer for several Fortune 500 companies in the tax, insurance, retail sciences, telecommunications, distribution, banking, finance, aviation, and scientific data management industries. As an independent consultant, he has promoted the use of open source in the industry by educating his clients on the cost benefits and productivity gains they can achieve. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad. Brian is the author of "Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry" and has also co-authored the Apress Java title "Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies".
Jeremy McAnally
Jeremy McAnally is a developer at entp (http://www.entp.com/) and author. He has been developing applications with Ruby and Rails for a little over three years. He penned Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book, is currently finishing up Ruby in Practice for Manning, and works on the Rails documentation project. He is also the author of several open source projects, including dcov (a documentation analyzer for Ruby code), radiograph (a plugin that exposes the Ultraviolet syntax highlighting library to Rails applications), vintage (a small PHP-style web framework) and more. He resides in Huntsville, AL, with his wife and dog, Beau.
Lance Carlson
Lance has been a rails and ruby developer since rails released their 0.13 version (3+ years ago). He presently works for Engine Yard and has his own consultancy called Ruby Skills. He is the creator of Ruby Anvil, a GUI framework in Ruby and is currently working with Bruce Tate to release the second edition of the book Ruby on Rails Up and Running.
Tom Mornini
Tom Mornini co-founded Engine Yard to provide the infrastructure and support necessary to fuel development of Ruby on Rails applications. He has spent nearly 30 years as a software developer and architect, and 20 years leading companies as an entrepreneur. Prior to starting Engine Yard in 2006 with co-founders Lance Walley, Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Jayson Vantuyl, he created FaceBridge Research, Inc., a billing service for video-over-IM systems, and InfoMania Printing and Prepress, Inc., an innovator in Internet print procurement. He also served as software architect at Quios.com, responsible for designing the platform that allowed the mobile messaging company to grow into a global provider with more than 130 employees. He's also the author of "Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle," published by O'Reilly.
Chris Nelson
Chris Nelson came very much the long way around to find happiness coding Ruby. He has been doing software development for 10 years at companies with small Fortune numbers and those without, where he finds it much easier to actually get things done. He has published several articles and spoken at numerous conferences including eRubycon, JavaOne, and OSCON, as well as local Java and Ruby user groups. Currently Chris is an independent consultant in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lives with his wife, 4 children, and 2 cats.
Joe O'Brien
Joe is a father, speaker, author and developer. Before helping found EdgeCase, LLC, Joe was a developer with ThoughtWorks and spent much of his time working with large J2EE and .NET systems for Fortune 500 companies. He has spent his career as a developer, project manager, and everything in between. Joe is a passionate member of the open source community. He co-founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group. His passions are Agile Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500 the elegance and power of this incredible language.
