talks & speakers

I’m Bozhidar and I love computers in general and programming in particular. My fanatic devotion to Emacs is known world-wide. I spend a lot of my (free) time on GitHub, contributing to various open-source Ruby, Clojure and Emacs Lisp projects. My most notable open-source projects are RuboCop (a linter/formatter for Ruby) and CIDER (a Clojure interactive development environment for Emacs).

Riccardo loves caipirinhas and 🍷 Amarone, playing 🎹 piano and 🏊🏻🚴🏿🏃‍♀️ triathlons; he's been passionate about Mathematics since he was 4. He's still in love with Ruby and Rails. Former network administrator, sysadmin, and Ruby on Rails developer, Riccardo has been in operations for 20+ years and still likes to spend time coding (better if Ruby). He loves engaging with customers and help them run their operations reliably and successfully in the cloud.

Born in Modena in 1980, I have been developing with Ruby for 20 years and never stopped loving it. I am currently working as an independent consultant

I am a Senior Ruby Developer, but I like to describe myself as a 'polymorphic' Ruby developer, as in the past 15 years working with Ruby, I have worn many different hats. I worked as a Senior Ruby Developer, Senior Product Engineer, Product Owner and Engineering Manager, but my not-so-secret passion is the mix of programming, teaching and mentoring. Out of this passion, I ran meetups and bootcamps, co-founded a learning academy, and mentored developers.

Abiodun Olowode is a Senior Engineering Manager at Factorial in Barcelona, who made the switch to software engineering from Avionics engineering. Prior to transitioning into engineering management, she worked as a Senior Software Developer on several core teams and a Developer Experience Team. She is very enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge and breaking down complex technical concepts, via writing and speaking. She's always up for a new challenge, especially when it involves making the world a better place one line of code at a time.

Rashmi, a Machine Learning Engineer by profession and a passionate researcher is dedicated to crafting beautiful AI/ML products. With nearly 5 years of industrial experience, she has brought ideas to life at pre-seed startups and contributed to impactful redesigns and features at established industry giants. Beyond coding, Rashmi finds inspiration in capturing the wonders of the cosmos through her telescope and engaging in board games with friends. Additionally, as a Research Affiliate at MIT, Rashmi continues to push the boundaries of technology, leveraging her expertise to bridge the gap between academia and industry in AI.

I am a software engineer currently based in New York City. I have been working primarily with Rails since the release of Rails 3, more than 10 years ago. Performance optimization has been an obsession for me since I founded my first start-up as a solo engineer in 2012. Currently, I am a group tech lead and senior staff engineer at Zendesk, where I focus on performance optimization.

I live in Dublin, Ireland. I'm Performance and Reliability engineer with over 15 years of experience. I'm part of Capacity and Performance team at Zendesk where I'm responsible for capacity management, infrastructure rightsizing, building sophisticated observability, running performance workshops and ensuring large complex system is up and running reliably and cost efficiently. My team plays key role in incidents response to performance and capacity related outages. I also contribute to Zendesk Engineering and Nginx blogs, publish with USENIX Login magazine and present Zendesk at several tech conferences and online webinars.

Software engineer at heart turned manager. Italian in Munich. Co-host of the Expanding Beyond podcast. Proud MC for the Ruby community.

I’m Bozhidar and I love computers in general and programming in particular. My fanatic devotion to Emacs is known world-wide. I spend a lot of my (free) time on GitHub, contributing to various open-source Ruby, Clojure and Emacs Lisp projects. My most notable open-source projects are RuboCop (a linter/formatter for Ruby) and CIDER (a Clojure interactive development environment for Emacs).

Rashmi, a Machine Learning Engineer by profession and a passionate researcher is dedicated to crafting beautiful AI/ML products. With nearly 5 years of industrial experience, she has brought ideas to life at pre-seed startups and contributed to impactful redesigns and features at established industry giants. Beyond coding, Rashmi finds inspiration in capturing the wonders of the cosmos through her telescope and engaging in board games with friends. Additionally, as a Research Affiliate at MIT, Rashmi continues to push the boundaries of technology, leveraging her expertise to bridge the gap between academia and industry in AI.

I am a Senior Ruby Developer, but I like to describe myself as a 'polymorphic' Ruby developer, as in the past 15 years working with Ruby, I have worn many different hats. I worked as a Senior Ruby Developer, Senior Product Engineer, Product Owner and Engineering Manager, but my not-so-secret passion is the mix of programming, teaching and mentoring. Out of this passion, I ran meetups and bootcamps, co-founded a learning academy, and mentored developers.