XO Ruby @xoruby.com We bring Rubyists together. http://xoruby.com
Here are the 2026 dates:
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August 8 - Seattle, WA
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August 15 - Vancouver, BC
๐ September 22 - Austin, TX
๐ October 3 - Toronto, Ontario
๐ October 10 - New York City, NY
๐ October 17 - Montrรฉal, Quรฉbec
Rachael Wright-Munn @chael.codes Software Engineer since 2012 | Live coding on Twitch since 2019 | open-source contributor | Programming Game Enthusiast | Featured in "One Dreamer" video game! โจ
@possibilogy.bsky.social @possibilogy.bsky.social 
Tropical on Rails @tropicalonrails.bsky.social www.tropicalonrails.com
Andrew Culver @andrewculver.net Chief Product Officer, Chief of Staff, and Partner at ClickFunnels and OfferLab. Creator of Bullet Train for Rails. Founded and sold Churn Buster. โ๏ธ
Balkan Ruby @balkanruby.bsky.social Balkan Ruby is about the long term. April 25-26, 2025, in Sofia, Bulgaria #balkanruby
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
Kevin Murphy @kevinjm.bsky.social Software Developer kevinjmurphy.com He/Him
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social GitHub user #118, programming, LLMs, 3D printing, and piano https://peterc.org/
Ufuk Kayserilioglu @ufuk.dev Physicist turned software developer turned engineering manager. Current: Leading Ruby Infrastructure team at Shopify & Board Member at @rubycentral.org
๐ https://ufuk.dev
๐จโ๐ป https://github.com/paracycle
๐ Nicosia, Cyprus
IndieRails @indierails.com Jess Brown (@bjessbrown.com) and Jeremy Smith (@jeremysmith.co) interview guests and discuss the intersection of independent business and Rails. https://www.indierails.com/
@carlospohloddev.bsky.social @carlospohloddev.bsky.social Ruby Enthusiast | Software developer
Jess Brown @bjessbrown.com Rails Developer // Co-Owner https://gettract.com & https://www.csepub.com
Co-host ๐ of @IndieRails
Dennis Martinez @dennmart.com Just another freelancer. Focused on Rails development, DevOps, and test automation while living in Osaka, Japan.
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.
Jared Moody @jaredmoody.com I like Ruby, roasting coffee, Oxford commas, and dad jokes.
Jeff Morhous @jeffmorhous.bsky.social I talk about software (mostly Ruby and infra) and hiking
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
Roy Tomeij @roy.io Founder ยท Operator ยท Advisor ยท Investor | https://roytomeij.com | Board member @AppSignal.com
Evan Bancroft @evanbancroft.com software engineer @ soundstripe
typescript and (some) elixir by day, and learning everything else by night
Riley @riley.computer Programmer โจ๏ธ
Coffee โ๏ธ
Pacific Northwest ๐ฒ
Not a poster ๐ซ
Ken Maeshima @mononoken.bsky.social ๐๏ธ Hiker and Dune Imperium enthusiast
๐ง Software engineer at deepcast.fm
๐ฑ Lead on Homeward Tails with Ruby for Good
feelsufo.com
Ramiro @ramiro.mx Software Engineering Manager based out of Vancouver, WA. Trekkie ๐๐ป. I love TV, movies, video games.
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Kent Beck @kentbeck.com Independent I guess these days you'd say content producer, artist, programmer, musician, pokerist. More about me at https://KentBeck.com.
๐ซ Kerri Miller @kerrizor.bsky.social Staff engineer and lackwit gadabout at Gitlab. LD ๐๏ธ rider. Part ๐ฆ, part ๐ฆ. WIP.
John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com Tweets about Ruby/Rails. Building @boxoutsports.com, @fireside.fm and @flippercloud.io. Huge fan of ๐ and โฑ๏ธ (southbendwatch.co).
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
Rob Walling @robwalling.com Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
Andrew Kane @ankane.bsky.social Keep it simple. ankane.org
Eric Halverson @elhalvers.bsky.social Software Engineer- Ruby / Rails mostly
I enjoy hiking, biking, birding, paddling,
reading, writing, coding, chessing, fooding! : )
Tim Riley @timriley.info Rubyist. Leading Hanami, Dry, Rom.
Canberra, Australia. he/him.
https://timriley.info/
Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ+๐ฒ๐น he/him.
๐ณ๐ฑ Immigrant.
๐ฟ๏ธ Friend to animals.
โ๏ธ Software engineer.
๐ Aspiring to be a good human.
๐ https://schembri.me
Dave Rooney ๐จ๐ฆ supports ๐บ๐ฆ @daverooney.dev Software guy since the early โ80s. 25+ years of Extreme Programming! Aviation Geek/Pilot.
Proud Canadian on the banks of the mighty Carp River in Ottawa! ๐๐จ๐ฆ
#ElbowsUp
Mark @markbiegel.com Software Engineer to CTO and back. I mostly help people build startups, sometimes I build my own.
Greg Molnar @greg.molnar.io I post on Twitter mostly. Find me at https://x.com/gregmolnar
Daniel Pence @danieldpence.bsky.social Front-End things @clickfunnels by day. 24/7 Husband and Dad. I โค๏ธ Ruby, Rails, modern JavaScript.
Mike Perham @mike.contribsys.com CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq
https://mikeperham.com
https://contribsys.com
https://sidekiq.org
Portland, OR
Teresa Vick @teresavick.bsky.social Fine Art Portrait Photographer for women on their Embracing Self journeys while rejecting the beauty demand. PNW | Vanc, WA | PDX teresavick.com
Ryan Lundie @lundie.bsky.social Ruby, RoR freelancer
Dr Nic @drnicwilliams.com Founder of Scope&Go
@scopego.co
Landon @thedayisntgray.bsky.social Director of AI @DealMaker ~ Empowering teams with AI systems & workflows
โ๐พ at landonnotes.com
Flagrant @beflagrant.com A small software company where developers & designers work passionately to deliver human-centered software. www.beflagrant.com
Josh @joshsaintjacque.com Seattle-area Staff Software Engineer working mostly on web applications. I work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React. Interested in AI and LLM discussions.
I sometimes write on joshsaintjacque.com.
Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social Developer. Building https://calendarvision.app/
Socials: https://mikedalton.co/socials/
Ian Landsman @ianlandsman.com Bootstrapper, software developer, poker player.
Founded 2005: HelpSpot
Founded 2014: LaraJobs (@larajobs.com)
Founded 2025: Outro (@outro.fm)
CoHost: Mostly Technical Podcast (@mostlytechnical.com)
Artsy photos: https://www.instagram.com/ianlandsman/
Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social Dev+Founder+Dad -> Wafris, SendCheckIt, Knowatoa, ExpeditedWAF.
Mostly post about cybersecurity and AI SEO stuff.
Discover how your brand ranks in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini at knowatoa.com/bsky 
Toronto Ruby @toronto-ruby.com T.RB, back again! Come join us for our monthly events. https://toronto-ruby.com/
@kellypopko.bsky.social @kellypopko.bsky.social 
Cameron Dutro @camertron.bsky.social Software engineer at GitHub working on the Primer design system. Avid Rubyist and aspiring Rustacean.
Jason Fugate @jasonfugate.bsky.social ๐ฎ 20+ years in the game industry including Riot, Sony, EA, Meta | #Xer | Soccer, politics, and C++ nerd | โฝ #MLS lifer ( #LAFC ) | ๐ต Blue dot in East TN (CO expat) | โ๏ธ Engine engineer | ๐ญ #Dachshund dad
Ben Sheldon @bensheldon.bsky.social I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. And I build GoodJob, Day of the Shirt, Panlexicon, and Brompt too.
Matt Thompson @mthomps4.bsky.social Software architect, mentor, woodworker
#ElixirLang #Rails whatever worksโฆ
mthomps4.com
jd @jd.codes Programmer by day, father all day, programmer later on at night, & gamer even later at night.
โค๏ธ Ruby, Python, and Elisp (and a little bit of Go maybe)
https://jd.codes
CNCF containerd Team @containerd.dev The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated container runtime project, containerd. Check us out at https://containerd.io
Kubernetes @kubernetes.bsky.social https://kubernetes.io/
Brad Geesaman @bradgeesaman.com Building on and breaking cloud, container, and app sec things. He/Him.
Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev Engineering Manager at Shopify. Mom, Rubyist, CEO of @wnb-rb.dev. she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Fito von Zastrow @fito.codegardener.com SF Bay Area transplant from Asunciรณn, Paraguay ๐ต๐พ. I enjoy hiking ๐ฅพwatching soccer โฝ๏ธ video games ๐ฎ drinking mate ๐งand pair-programming ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ป 
Joel (1 syllable) @jayroh.dev ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ฆ Dad, Husband, Son, Human
๐ถ #EnglishBulldog Dad (also)
๐จโ๐ป Eng Manager
๐ Ex-(thoughtbot, meditatehappier, dribbble)
๐ ๏ธ Building - joeloliveira.com, other fun stuff
๐ป #movies #tv #comics #coding #ruby #rails #selfhosting
๐ ๐ @jroholi.day
Evil Martians @evilmartians.com Design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Lago, Tines, Teleport, Wallarm, and Whop grow with Evil Martians.
Peter Warnock @peterwarnock.com #devops #softwarearchitecture #platformengineering #python #node #javascript #java #golang #csharp #php #docker #k8s #leadership #cicd 
Ruby Central @rubycentral.org Ruby Central is the organizing force behind RubyConf, RailsConf & the proud maintainers of RubyGems, Bundler. We've been advancing the Ruby ecosystem & community since 2001.
Get involved: https://rubycentral.org
RailsConf 2025: https://railsconf.org
Dave Kimura @davekimura.bsky.social Christian, Husband, Father and Rubyist, Screencaster of https://www.driftingruby.com, Creator of ActionAuth https://github.com/kobaltz/action_auth, Makes and loves ๐ฃ
cisco gonzalez @ciscolgrnd.bsky.social Building things with Rails
https://railsnew.dev/
Andy @sudermanjr.bsky.social CTO at Fairwinds
Goldilocks Author & Maintainer
#CNCF Ambassador
Co-Chair #Kubernetes Policy WG
Grass Toucher
Hobby Collector
Startup Advisor
He/Him
Opinions are my own
Richard Bishop @richardb.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.
Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
GitHub @github.com The AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software.
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/
Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social Web evangelist at Apple ๏ฃฟ, founder CodeNewbie (acquired), developer, creator, chief baker of the Try Bakery (located in my kitchen โค๏ธ)
Alan Ridlehoover @alan.codegardener.com Empathetic leader. Passionate Rubyist. Fallible human. Storyteller. Speaker. Environmentalist. Feminist. Ally. Swell photographer. Rusty drummer. Loving husband & twins dad.
Owner of too many hats, given I only have the one head.
the.codegardener.com
schwad @schwad.org Preeventualist. Rubyist at ZAR dot app
David Hill @davidhill.dev Ruby on Rails Developer
Host of the Ode to RailsConf podcast
https://davidhill.dev
Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.co Product-focused Rails dev โข Studio: http://hybrd.co โข Co-host: @indierails.com โข Organizer: @blueridgeruby.com
Nate Hopkins @hopsoft.bsky.social Software writer, maker. Creator of several Ruby and JavaScript libraries.
Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io co-founder ๐งก
@joshuawood.net worksonified๐ด๏ธ
Blog: https://joshuawood.net โ๏ธ
Podcast: @founder.quest ๐๏ธ
Developer-first monitoring and observability. ๐
@codyjamesbrooks.bsky.social @codyjamesbrooks.bsky.social 
Kyle Keesling @kylekeesling.com Midwestern dad & CTO โ Cargo Biking/Commuting ๐ฒ Ruby/Rails ๐
kylekeesling.com
Andrea ๐จโ๐ณ @itsameandrea.com CTO @ Wellio ๐ง
Building:
๐จโ๐ฆฒ besthairclinics.org
๐๏ธ guestlab.ai
๐ค apprack.io
Kyle @boe.codes #Ruby / #Rails dev by day ๐
#Elixir / #Phoenix dev by night ๐
I just want to watch the world learn ( #ElixirLang for their own sake).
Adam Wathan @adamwathan.com I donโt post here, follow me on X: x.com/adamwathan
Honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io Application monitoring that helps developers move fast and fix things. We're everything you need to keep production happy โ and nothing you don't.
๐ https://honeybadger.io
endorsed by jerry july 11, 2025
Jesper Christiansen @jesper.dev Full-stack web developer. Independent Contractor - Loves Ruby/Rails. JS/React/Vue. Works on side projects formbackend.com, many.link
Joel Drapper ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ @joel.drapper.me Iโm a Ruby/TypeScript/CSS engineer at @plane.com and based in the UK. https://joel.drapper.me
Iโm building a Ruby/SQLite serverlesslessness framework. I also maintain Phlex, Literal, Morphlex, MaskIcons and Ruby Schema.
Signal: joeldrapper.01
Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social Genuinely desire success in those around you and do what you can to make it happen.
Founder of Flagrant a software design & development consultancy.
https://www.beflagrant.com
He/him
Julian Cheal @juliancheal.dev Quaffer of fine coffee. Aficionado of tweed.
Maker of musics https://soundcloud.com/juliancheal
Crafter of codes
Helping fix the climate with https://www.protect.earth/
Building https://hookrelay.dev
Daniel Westendorf @dwestendorf.dev #ruby #rails #startups
https://github.com/danielwestendorf
joel ๐ฆ๏ธ @joelhooks.com lvl 16 half-orc nerd. jazz lover. freak for synths.
education @vercel.com. education products at @badass.dev. building @egghead.io since 2013.
now ๐ https://joelhooks.com/now
PDX (Vancouver, WA)
Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com Keyword, buzzword, half-truth, adjective, hey look at me! (founder of two unicorns: http://WPEngine.com, http://SmartBear.com).
Writing for 18 years at: https://longform.asmartbear.com
Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com โก๏ธ Rebel scum. Disinvoltura.
๐ฏ Business + community.
๐ Author https://tiny.mba.
๐ฐ Teacher https://stackingthebricks.com
๐ค indyhall.org fearless leader since 2006.
๐ดโโ ๏ธ Pirate captain http://10k.city.
โค๏ธ he/him. Partner. 
Jason Fried @jasonfried.bsky.social Founder & (sometimes) CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. Email me at jason@hey.com.
Ryan Castillo @rmcastil.bsky.social - Helping SaaSโs track how AI's represent them with knowatoa.com
- Been programming for 25+ years
- Believes being a dev is a marketing/sales super power
Tyler Tringas @tylertringas.com Purveyor of calmness
Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com ๐ฉโ๐ป CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io
๐ Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers
Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside
she/her | ๐บ๐ธ in ๐ฉ๐ฐ
โgenuinely enthusiastic and slightly chaoticโ - Claude
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Anthony Eden @anthonyeden.bsky.social Founder of DNSimple, vendor of duct tape, purveyor of UDP packets. He/him. Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@aeden
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