Speakers

Kieran Klaassen

Kieran Klaassen

Keynote

General Manager of Cora, Kieran Klaassen is a serial entrepreneur and a proponent of agentic coding and compounding engineering.

Irina

Irina Nazarova

Keynote

CEO of Evil Martians, Irina Nazarova is deep in the world of startups and Ruby on Rails.

Avi Flombaum

Avi Flombaum

How to become a famous Ruby, Rails, Agentic Developer

Avi Flombaum is a founder, product engineer, and educator. After founding Flatiron School, he joined Innovent Capital as the CTPO working on agentic startups.

Neha Abraham

Neha Abraham

Powerful Data: Making Rails Apps Faster with Aggregation

Neha is a developer at Power Home Remodeling, working on a team of data analysts and developers to deliver dashboards for company leadership. Her work focuses on turning complex data into clear insights on performance and goals.

Nikky Southerland

Nikky Southerland

Spaceships, Radiation Therapy, and Power Users

Nikky has been working professionally with Ruby on Rails since 2013. He works as Lead Engineer at Vehlo and Director of Technology at McSweeney's. His analog interests include birding, photography, and digging through disordered shelves at used bookstores.

Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason

We are the Ruby Community

Ifat Ribon

Ifat Ribon

Fewer Tests, More Confidence

Principal Architect at LaunchPad Lab, a custom software consultancy based in Chicago. Ifat has nearly a decade of experience building Ruby and Rails applications across team size and domain complexity.

Stephen McKeon

Stephen McKeon

Why We're Still Training Rails Developers in an Age of AI

Stephen "Stove" McKeon is a Ruby on Rails developer at Power Home Remodeling, where he builds product features within a large-scale Rails monolith. He previously led the Power Code Academy, an internal apprenticeship program designed to train employees with little to no technical background into full-stack Rails developers.

Matheus Richard

Matheus Richard

Rubyists can make games too!

Senior developer at thoughtbot, Matheus loves playing guitar, games, and building interpreters. Ruby "clicked" with him from day one, and almost 10 years later, he hasn't stopped feeling joy whenever he uses it.