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Instructors

Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis has been using Ruby since 2000 and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. He's worked at both large and small companies such as Amazon.com, OmniGroup, and Gemstone while focusing on QA, process, developer productivity, automation and tool development, object databases, and languages. In ruby/rails, he has worked on developer productivity and test automation tools such as heckle, hoe, ParseTree, ruby2c, ruby2ruby, RubyInline, ZenTest, and more.

Aaron Patterson

When Aaron Patterson's not searching the internet for pictures of adorable kittens, he creates large-scale Ruby on Rails applications as a Principal Software Engineer at AdReady. He's an open source contributor, releasing popular Ruby tools like Mechanize and CSSPool. On Tuesday nights, Aaron can be found with the Rubyists from Seattle.rb.

Philip M. R. Soares

Soares has managed and consulted on development of web-based applications and systems operations for small to Fortune 500 companies. He is especially fond of the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails and related frameworks. He is a firm believer in constant re-tooling and training, and using the right tools for the job. He is currently writing his master's thesis exploring the use of Ruby in the CS curriculum and is a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade user group.

Instructors are subject to change.