Keynote Speakers

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Aaron Patterson

Rails Core, Staff @ Shopify

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Irina Nazarova

CEO @ Evil Martians

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John Hawthorn

Ruby Core, Rails Core, Staff @ Github

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Nadia Odunayo

Founder & CEO @ The StoryGraph

Speaker List

Hackday Projects

Hack Day on Day 2 of the conference features community activities designed to connect fellow Rails developers and open source leaders in an environment that fosters collaboration and discussion. Choose between the Pitch Party, Birds of a Feather or contributing to open source projects.

Pitch Party

Bring your own ideas to the Pitch Party for a more traditional “build-it-quick” Hack Day. Collect a team of fellow attendees to take your vision from Hello World to MVP.

Birds of a Feather

Whether you’re looking to chat about new Rails technologies, seek career advice, or determine the best ramen spot in Detroit, Birds of a Feather empowers discussions around attendee-curated topics. Bring your own topic, or join an existing group for dynamic, informal conversations.

Open Source Projects

Work side-by-side with notable maintainers on popular projects and pair with experienced open source contributors to make their first pull requests to Rails. We’ve got an exciting lineup of maintainers joining us from Rails Core, RubyGems, Paper Trail, Nokogiri, Noticed, Rails-LSP, Thoughtbot and more!

Rails Core

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Aaron Patterson

Rails Core, Staff @ Shopify

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John Hawthorn

Ruby Core, Rails Core, Staff @ Github

Ruby Gems

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Jenny Shen

Senior Developer

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Martin Emde

Director of Open Source at Ruby Central

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Samuel Giddins

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André Arko

OSS Engineering Manager

Oaken

Oaken is a new take on development and test data management for your Rails app. It blends the stability and storytelling from Fixtures with the dynamicness and helpers of FactoryBot/Fabricator.

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Kasper Timm Hansen

Creator of Oaken

Packs And Code Ownership

Packs provides an extensible packaging system to help modularize Ruby applications. `bin/packs` makes using packs easier. A `pack` (short for `package`) is a folder of Ruby code with a `package.yml` at the root that is intended to represent a well-modularized domain. Code_ownership helps engineering teams declare ownership of code. This gem works best in large, usually monolithic code bases where many teams work together.

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Ashley Willard

Software Engineer

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Teal Stannard

Software Engineer

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Todd Sedano

Engineering Manager

Pundit

Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

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Kim Burgestrand

Partner, co-founder, and developer @ Varvet

Singed

singed makes it easy to get a flamegraph anywhere in your code base.

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Josh Nichols

Staff Software Engineer

Speakerline

Showcasing speakers' proposals and timelines in a effort to demystify the CFP process and help new speakers get started.

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Nadia Odunayo

Founder & CEO at The Storygraph

Test Prof, Action Policy, Any Cable

TestProf is a test optimization toolkit for Ruby applications; Action Policy is an authorization framework; AnyCable is a realtime server for web apps

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Vladimir Dementyev

Principal Backend Engineer @ Evil Martians

Thoughtbot

Will be pairing with folks to make their first open source contributions. Thoughtbot gems (FactoryBot, shoulda_matchers, clearance, Administrate ...) will be available if they don't have another interest.

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Aji Slater

Development Team Lead