Great Lakes Ruby Bash

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  John Nunemaker

  John Nunemaker is passionate, driven and addicted to new. He is the CTO at Ordered List, where he creates simple, usable websites and web applications. When not hacking on open source projects, such as MongoMapper or HTTParty, he authors a well-known blog, RailsTips.org. He lives in South Bend, Indiana with his wife and two cats. Riding his motorcycle and playing NCAA Football on his PS3 are just a few things that help him achieve a work-life balance.

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  Matt Yoho

  Matt Yoho is an agile development enthusiast happily working for Hashrocket, probably the most opinionated Ruby and Rails shop around, in Chicago. He’s had the good fortune of leading a class on Ruby and Rails for the Scholars program of the Ohio State University, where once upon a time he received a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering and one in Psychology. He’s a recovering karaoke addict and one fairly hep cat.

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  Adam McCrea

  Adam McCrea is the logician at EdgeCase in Columbus, Ohio. A strong believer in the power of small, he loves working for a small company and working with simple but powerful tools. He has been developing web applications for seven years and has presented on JavaScript and Ruby on Rails at eRubyCon, CodeMash, and the Columbus Ruby Brigade.

  Adam’s passions include creating intuitive user interfaces, mastering the Ruby Way, and showing fellow developers that JavaScript can be elegant and fun. He is also a husband, father, and all-around swell guy.

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  Steve Smith

  Steve architects user interfaces and web designs. But it’s about more than just design, as he brings a passion for simplicity and usability. He is a recognized authority on front-end development and interface design. He is an entrepreneur, founding Ordered List, and co-founding Sidebar Creative. And as an author, public speaker, and University of Notre Dame professor, he is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others.

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  Ryan Briones

  Ryan is a practicing software craftsman currently living and working in Chicago, IL. In nearly a decade Ryan has designed systems for ISPs, non-profit corporations and web startups. For the last 4 years Ryan has had the pleasure of using Ruby almost exclusively and gives back to the Ruby ecosystem whenever possible. Ryan works as a Consultant at Obtiva, a life-long learner and is on his way to becoming a full-blown coffee snob.

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  Michael Bleigh

  Michael Bleigh is the Creative Director and Open Source Activist for Intridea. Michael’s experience goes through every part of the web application lifecycle from conception and planning to design and back-end development. He has built a number of open-source projects used widely throughout the Ruby community and has also presented at several conferences including RailsConf 2009 and the Great Lakes Ruby Bash.

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  Joshua Clayton

  Josh Clayton started learning Ruby in 2006 in preparation for a Marine deployment to Fallujah, Iraq and hasn’t dared look back. He is an active member in the Ruby community and maintains the Blueprint CSS framework. Josh is a web developer at thoughtbot, inc. and a member of the Boston Ruby Group. He enjoys spending time with his wife, cycling, and drumming when he’s not writing sexy code.

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  Justin Love

  Justin Love does embedded software and IT support by day, analytical arts and martial arts by night. He has presented at JS.chi and ChicagoRuby.

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  Auvi Rahman

  Auvi Rahman joined Mutually Human right after graduate school. Previously he has worked as a research engineer, UNIX systems programmer and industrial machinery automation engineer in his professional life.

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  Zach Dennis

  Zach Dennis is a developer and founding partner at Mutually Human Software, a co-author of The RSpec Book, a contributor to several open source projects such as Ruby on Rails, RSpec, and Ruby’s standard library documentation, among many others. Recently, he’s taken up playing guitar at open mic nights. Zach also enjoys reading, music, and running continuousthinking.com.

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