Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.co Product-focused Rails dev • Studio: http://hybrd.co • Co-host: @indierails.com • Organizer: @blueridgeruby.com
XO Ruby @xoruby.com We bring Rubyists together. http://xoruby.com
Here are the 2026 dates:
✅ August 8 - Seattle, WA
✅ August 15 - Vancouver, BC
📌 October 3 - Toronto, Ontario
📌 October 10 - New York City, NY
📌 October 17 - Montréal, Québec
RBQ Conf @rbqconf.bsky.social RBQ Conf. Bringing Rubyists together to celebrate our favorite language and enjoy some Austin BBQ
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Manou @manou.bsky.social Ex-accenture, Ex-shopify, ruby lover, opinions my own
Benoit Tigeot @benoittgt.bsky.social Dev backend. Previously RSpec core team. #Ruby #Go #PostreSQL. he / him 🏴 I love flags. https://ruby.social/@benoit
Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es Mostly posts about gummi bears, space probes, and Ruby.
OSS contributor, maintaining Nokogiri, SQLite3, Rails::Html::Sanitizer, Mechanize, and more in the Ruby ecosystem.
Working at 37signals. Former Shopify, VMware, Pivotal, Bloomberg, various startups.
Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca Game history, programming, nonsense.
Multimedia blog: https://cdrom.ca
Vinicius Stock @vinistock.bsky.social Staff engineer at Shopify working on the Ruby developer experience team | Ruby LSP creator | Speaker
Developer tooling, static analysis and type checking
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
(Jason) Gedge @gedge.ca Mental health break from social media (somewhat here, but mostly not)
💩 De-enshittifying software by giving users back complete agency
🙅♂️ Not singularly focused on "winning"
🚫 Anti corporate capitalism
📈 Be a little better each and every day
Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! Co-founder of tryhardstudios.com
- https://MasteringPostgres.com
- https://HighPerformanceSQLite.com
- https://screencasting.com
- https://mostlytechnical.com
- https://aaronfrancis.com
Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com A regional Ruby conference in the mountains of western North Carolina ⛰️
April 30 & May 1, 2026 in Asheville, NC
Adrien Poly @adrienpoly.com CTO @plume-app Rails/JS aficionado. Creator of StimulusUse and rubyevents.org- E Eileen @eileencodes.bsky.social
Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
Adam McCrea @adamlogic.com I spend my days building @judoscale.com to help developers optimize their web hosting.
Follow me to hear about...
💎 Ruby on Rails
🚀 Heroku & PaaS
💸 Independent SaaS
Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
Kane Jamison @kanejamison.com Building & growing stuff on the internet. Currently working with growth teams on Rails.
🌎 Based in Anacortes, WA
👋 kanejamison.com
📝 contentharmony.com
*️⃣ fixture.media
📈 railsgrowth.com
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
Franck Delache @franck.isalazy.dev Staff dev @ Shopify
Seldomly blogs at Franck.IsALazy.dev
Gardener when the weather is nice
Dancer at night
Andrew Kane @ankane.bsky.social Keep it simple. ankane.org
JP Camara @jpcamara.com Principal software engineer @Wealthbox.
Husband/Father. Health, travel, tech and Ruby enthusiast.
Tech blog at https://jpcamara.com
Jokes at https://logicalconclusionscomic.com
Anton Tkachov @antontkachov.bsky.social Talent-as-a-Service Founder | Ukrainian 🇺🇦 living in Chicago 🇺🇸 | Helping Tech Leaders engage incredible coding and design professionals via flexible | Ruby / Python / Node.js / React.js / Vue.js / UX / UI
Alexander Adam @alexanderadam.bsky.social 🤓 Software dev working in ♦️ #RubyLang and 💎 #CrystalLang as a #freelancer & at◽vade.io
Skeets may be English & German.
Mostly active on 🐘 #Mastodon/#Fediverse though 😉
https://ruby.social/@alexanderadam
#ruby #CrystalLanguage #crystal #rails
jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com Previously, @ideasasylum on Twitter but not active there any more.
Also found on Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@jamie.
Blog: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com
Links: https://www.jamielawrence.me
CTO @ Podia. Swimmer. Ruby developer.
Zach Holman @hol.mn building signed.com and calendearing.com. investing: tifo.com. formerly: github, gitlab.
Gonzalo @grzuy.bsky.social Programming. Open Source. Security.
@julikt.bsky.social @julikt.bsky.social 
Janko Marohnić @janko.io Senior Ruby engineer, father, dancer. Creator of Shrine, rodauth-rails and vim-test.
Stanislav (Stas) Katkov @skatkov.com Linux on desktop is happening. I'm permanently building something.
http://devtui.com and http://poshtui.com
Trevor Turk @trevorturk.bsky.social Programming Hello Weather. Previously Impactive, IFTTT, Clearbit, and 37signals.
Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com F'uncle of six. CEO @PlanetArgon.com. Host @maintainable.fm. Creator of @ohmyz.sh. Guitarist @mightymissoula.com. Host of On Rails podcast.
https://robbyonrails.com/links/
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Scott Chacon @scottchacon.com CEO of @gitbutler.com, previously cofounder of @github.com. All opinions are my own, but also objectively the best.
Maarten van Grootel @vangrootel.org 
@danhanson.bsky.social @danhanson.bsky.social 
Peter Zhu @peterzhu.ca Staff Developer at Shopify.
Ruby core committer.
Photography geek.
Mastodon: @peterzhu2118@ruby.social
Instagram: @peterzhu.photos
Mike Perham @mike.contribsys.com CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq
https://mikeperham.com
https://contribsys.com
https://sidekiq.org
Portland, OR
Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me I’m a Ruby/TypeScript/CSS engineer at @plane.com and based in the UK. https://joel.drapper.me
I’m building a Ruby/SQLite serverlesslessness framework. I also maintain Phlex, Literal, Morphlex, MaskIcons and Ruby Schema.
Signal: joeldrapper.01
John Hawthorn @jhawthorn.com Writing code for @Shopify, Rails, and Ruby. Previously @GitHub.
he/him | Victoria, BC | jhawthorn.com
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
Ufuk Kayserilioglu @ufuk.dev Physicist turned software developer turned engineering manager. Current: Leading Ruby Infrastructure team at Shopify & Board Member at @rubycentral.org
🌐 https://ufuk.dev
👨💻 https://github.com/paracycle
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com Tweets about Ruby/Rails. Building @boxoutsports.com, @fireside.fm and @flippercloud.io. Huge fan of 🏀 and ⏱️ (southbendwatch.co).
Stephen Margheim @fractaledmind.bsky.social 
Rosa @rosa.codes 🇪🇺 European ❤️ cities, maths, theoretical computer science, learning languages, puzzles & bicycles 🐶 Human to Mochi 👩🏻💻 Principal programmer @ 37signals - she/her - Antwerp 🇧🇪 / Madrid 🇪🇸
Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev Full-Stack Web Developer • OSS Contributor • Electronic Music Addict • Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Stimulus, Crystal • Hotwire Contributors Team • StimulusReflex Core.
Website: marcoroth.dev
Building: rubyevents.org | rubyconferences.org | gem.sh | hotwire.io
Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev Ruby and Rails hacker working at Shopify, living in Seattle
Rose W @rosew.bsky.social Principal Software Engineer. 25+ Years Coding, Mother of Teens, Ruby, Book Lover, ADHD, Cats, Nature, Crochet, Boise, She/her.
Noel Rappin @noelrappin.com Staff Engineer at Chime. Co-author of Programming Ruby. Author of Modern Front End Development for Rails. Also, http://noelrappin.com/about to find me. (He/Him)
Chris Oliver @excid3.com Rails Luminary building GoRails.com, JumpstartRails.com, Hatchbox.io, RailsBytes.com, Remote Ruby Podcast and lots of open source projects.
Do things that scare you.
https://excid3.com
Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social Principal Eng at Microsoft / GitHub, Ruby Central board member, Neurodivergence Advocate. Autistic / ADHD / Depression, He / Him. I'm the Lemur guy. Living and working somewhere about SF, writing on baweaver.com
Yukihiro Matz @matz.bsky.social Ruby's Father 
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17