Ruby Websites

Josh is a full-time software developer who enjoys Ruby, Taylor Swift, emojis, and gifs. He expresses a love for people and a desire for their well-being. He maintains a blog and a 'Now' page to share updates on his activities. His resume is available for a detailed overview of his work.

Sam Saffron is the Co CEO of Discourse and a co-founder. He lives in sunny Sydney. He loves writing about performance, Ruby, Mini Profiler and technology related topics. He can be contacted at sam@samsaffron.com for speaking engagements and general enquiries.

Radan Skorić is a senior full stack developer with over 15 years of professional experience solving problems with Software and leading teams of developers. He primarily works with Ruby and its ecosystem although recently he has started developing a taste for Rust on the side. For most of his career he has split his time between coding the backend of (mostly complex) applications and leading, motivating and increasing efficiency of a team of developers. He values simple over complex solutions and puts a lot of emphasis on quality in all aspects of product development. As a team lead he subscribes to the “serving lead” philosophy. He is also one of the organizers of the RubyZG Meetup. He has a passion for elegant and easy to understand code and for having a deep understanding of how the system and libraries he is using work.

Daniel Nitsikopoulos is a software engineer living in Canberra, Australia. He has worked on projects such as PatternMate, an application to organise sewing patterns, and Adamantium, the source code behind a previous blog. He posts regularly and enjoys watching movies.

Noel Rappin is a Staff Engineer at Chime Financial. Before that, he worked at Root Insurance, Table XI, Groupon, and Obtiva. He is a web developer and has authored multiple technical books including Programming Ruby, Modern Front-End Programming with Rails, Modern CSS with Tailwind, and Rails 5 Test Prescriptions. Noel is also the co-author of wxPython in Action, and Jython Essentials. Noel hosted the Tech Done Right podcast.

Emmanuel Orozco writes about technology, education, and music. He blogs about his weekly learnings on Substack. He is a university professor at Kibo University. He is proficient in Javascript, Ruby, and Python. His favorite front-end frameworks are React and Vue. He was born and raised in Mexico City and currently lives in Paris.

Alessandro De Simone is a software engineer based in the UK, specializing in Ruby development for government and growth-stage companies. With over 15 years of experience, he has worked with public sector teams, fintech companies, and startups, delivering reliable and maintainable software in complex environments. Alessandro focuses on Agile delivery, object-oriented design, testing, and refactoring. He aims to keep codebases clean, understandable, and easy to work with, whether it's legacy code or greenfield projects. Alessandro collaborates with recruiters, delivery managers, and project managers who need experienced Ruby support. He currently works as a contractor for various projects through his company, Acrobyte Ltd.

Pat Shaughnessy is a blogger, rubyist, and aspiring author. He is the author of the book "Ruby Under a Microscope." He writes about Ruby, Rust, and other programming-related topics.