Alexandra Masterson
Conference Organizer GOTO Chicago 2015
Alexandra Masterson Conference Marketing and Event Coordinator at Trifork Support my interviews on Patreon Become a Patreon Patron for e…
Dean Wampler
Organizer Chicago Apache Spark & Scala User Groups
Dean Wampler Organizer Chicago Spark & Scala User Groups Dean Wampler is the Big Data Architect at Typesafe and specializes in the ap…
Dave Duggal
Raising Abstractions for the Software Defined Business
Dave Duggal Founder, EnterpriseWeb Dave Duggal, Founder / Managing Director Dave is the founder of EnterpriseWeb. His company offers an a…
Anita Sengupta
Curiosity’s Entry Descent and Landing on Mars
Anita Sengupta Aerospace Engineer, NASA JPL Dr. Anita Sengupta is an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She has been dev…
Rebecca Parsons
Evolutionary Architecture & Micro-Services - A Match Enabled by Continuous Delivery
Rebecca Parsons CTO, ThoughtWorks Dr. Parsons has more than 20 years of application development experience in industries ranging from tel…
Charles Nutter
Beyond JVM: How the platform is evolving for new languages and features
Co-lead JRuby Project The JVM has traditionally hosted many languages, but only those closest to Java itself got the full optimization tre…
David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails
Chat with DHH about nuance, where he stands with TDD today, increasing the bandwidth of conversations and his thoughts on how F/OSS softwar…
Aaron Patterson
Ruby & Rails Core team member
Aaron Patterson provides a balance to the force of DHH and it felt appropriate for him to close out RailsConf and to hear his perspective o…
Trisha Gee
Developer Advocate at JetBrains
Trisha Gee is an expert in high performance Java systems and a developer with MongoDB. She wanted to see about building a buzzword-complian…
Gary Bernhardt
Creator of Destroy All Software Screencasts
Obie Fernandez
Author The Rails Way & co-founder Hashrocket
Obie Fernandez was an early adopter and teacher in the Rails community. At RailsConf 2014 he lead a panel on the future of Rails jobs.
Stuart Halloway
Author of Programming Clojure and a Clojure committer
Interview with Stuart Halloway at SCNA 2013
Charles Nutter
Co-lead of the JRuby project.
Charles was in Chicago to present at the GOTO Night event on the Future of the JVM. In our conversation he gives a little insight into some…
Evan Phoenix
Evan Phoenix is one of those rare outliers who has an unbelievable talent for creating complex tools that are incredibly useful and help dr…
Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
After a lovely interview that fell flat due to technical difficulties Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale were willing to redo the interview but I s…
Coraline Ada Ehmke
Coraline Ada Ehmke (@Bantik) gave a talk about Artisans & Apprentices at RailsConf 2014. She describes her experences and what led her …
Kiyoto Tamura
Chat with Kiyoto Tamura who is a maintainer on the FluentD log integration tool. We chat about what exactly FluentD is, how it got it's nam…
Coleman Collins and John Jarosz
John Jarosz & Coleman Collins share their experience building systems that are heavily dependent on human interaction and change. They …
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler is an early leader in the Ruby community and an active author, teacher, and speaker. His most well known book being The Passion…
Jen Myers
Jen Myers shares with us some information on the Rails Girls Summer of Code event while at RailsConf 2014. Learn more about how YOU can par…
Matt Ruby
Creator of Vooza
Vooza | http://vooza.com @voozahq | https://twitter.com/voozahq @mattruby | https://twitter.com/mattruby Matt Ruby transformed his experie…
Rafael França
Rafael França was noted by the Ruby Hero committee for being one of the most prolific committers they evaluated for the Ruby Hero awards fo…
Amitai Schlair
Interview with Amitai Schlair a member of the Board of Directors for The NetBSD Foundation.
Alex Rutkowski and Joel Friedman
Alex Rutkowski & Joel Friedman are full-time remote collaborators and they share some of their experiences collaborating with distribut…
Sandro Mancuso
Interview with Sandro Mancuso at SCNA 2013
Alberto Silveira and Leslie Borrell
Interview with Leslie Borrell & Alberto Silveira from Amplify Access on their GOTO Chicago 2014 presentation Creating Collaborative Dis…
Brian Ray
Brian Ray has been organizing the Chicago Python community for over a decade and is now starting a new community, ch-ch-ch-Chia. Chia is t…
Amanda Harlin and Jesse Harlin
Amanda and Jesse are a dynamic duo helping build tech community in the United States Midwest. they're involved with the Techlahoma meta-com…
Zassmin Montes de Oca
Zassmin Montes de Oca is the Executive Director and Board Vice Chair with the Women Who Code organiztion. WWC is a non-profit dedicated to …
Jonathon Kresner
Jonathon Kresner was at RailsConf conducting online interviews with speakers at RailsConf to promote his company AirPair. I was interested …
Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
The Lost Interview
This interview with Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale was the first attempt we made at publishing a conversation on UGtastic. It was also my first…
Dave Thomas
Interview with Dave Thomas at SCNA 2013
Liz Abinante
Co-leader Girl Develop It Chicago at RailsConf 2014
Liz Abinante aka @feministy is the co-leader of Girl Develop It Chicago chapter.
Trek Glowacki
Trek Glowacki is a busy person working as part of the Ember.js Core Team and co-organizing the Chicago Ember.js User-Group. We chat about h…
Tim Bray
Tim Bray is the co-inventor of XML and a keynote speaker the GOTO Chicago 2014 conference. We chat about his presenation as well as his tho…
Ray Hightower
Ray Hightower was amongst the first people interviewed on UGtastic and he's back talking about his latest conference announcement - RubyCar…
Andy Maleh
Interview with Andy Maleh at RailsConf Chicago 2014. Andy presented Ultra Light and Maintainable Rails Wizards at the conference and we cha…
Katrina Owen
Interview with Katrina Owen at SCNA 2013
Fred George
Fred George spoke at GOTO Chicago 2014 on Implementing Programmer Anarchy. I've often heard that managing programmers is like herding cats,…
Justin Searls
Justin Searls explains what Lineman.js and the problems that drove him to create the tool. Justin also describes his very intense process t…
Camille Fournier
Camille Fournier inquired as to whether we really want to go through The Great Rewrite of our legacy systems and whether there's a better w…
Carlos Antonio da Silva
Carlos Antonio da Silva a Rails Core team member and a maintainer of the Devise and simple_form RubyGems shares some insight into the trick…
Russ Olsen
Russ Olsen chats with us about his presentation Programming in Interesting Times and explains why we should be thinking beyond our current …
Leah Silber
Leah Silber shares with us her experience with building and supporting large technical communities.
Sean Massa
Sean Massa is pretty active in the Chicago JavaScript community. He organizes the Geekfest as well as the Chicago Node.js and Chicago Ember…
Niley Barros
Niley Barros is an organizer with GOTO Chicago and shares insight into the events and how she got involved as a conference organizer.
Dnyaneshwar Nerkar (Gyani) and Nitin Dhaware
Interview with Nitin Dhaware and Dnyaneshwar Nerkar (Gyani) at RailsConf 2014. We discuss their presentation Empowering Rich Internet Appli…
Alexander Dymo
Alexander Dymo presented Improve performance: Optimize Memory and Upgrade to Ruby 2.1 at RailsConf 2014. Alexander is also working on a Rub…
Javier Ramirez
Javier Ramirez challenges us to go back to the beginning of Rails and the eventual adoption of the REST concepts to think about what REST m…
Desi McAdam and Sarah Allen
Sarah Allen and Desi McAdam are working to help teach Rails and Ruby development through their Railsbridge Womens Outreach workshops. We ch…
Emily Rosengren
Emily Rosengren is a developer who also works to help User-Groups coordinate with ThoughtWorks for sponsorships and hosting events. Emily s…
Greg Baugues
Greg Baugues is a Developer Evangelist with Twilio and he chats with us about how he came to share his own personal struggles with mental d…
Joel Turnbull
Joel Turnbull shares his experience that lead to his presentation on Debugger Driven Development. He describes the Pry tool a beautiful enh…
Jez Humble
Jez Humble shares with us his presentation DevOps Culture and Practices to Create Flow where he defines the DevOps and Flow concepts as rel…
Richard Schneeman
Richard Schneeman aka Schneems chats about his work at Heroku as well as his work and history with the Ruby community and his new book Hero…
Ashe Dryden
Dan North
Interview with Dan North originator of BDD
Jeremy Green
Jeremy Green shares his presentation on how to build authentication systems that can span multiple SOA nodes but work with a single system …
Chet Hendrickson and Ron Jeffries
Interview with Chet Hendrickson & Ron Jeffries at SCNA 2013
Rainey Reitman and Sina Khanifar
Interview Rainey Reitman & Sina Khanifar regarding their work on the Contact-Congress project http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congre…
Farrah Bostic
Farrah Bostic asks a bold question What happens when everyone learns to code? We're moving past the days of computers being just those magi…
Micah Martin
Interview with Micah Martin at SCNA 2013
Adrian Cockcroft
Adrian Cockcroft has helped lead the technical direction of some of the largest players in online services today such as Netflix, Ebay, and…
Justin Gordon
Justin Gordon walks us through the journey he went through while learning and changing the message he wanted to share though his presentati…
Michael T. Nygard
Michael T. Nygard looked back at the last Five Years of DevOps: Where are we Now? at GOTO Chicago 2014. Michael explains a bit about the hi…
Justin Collins
Justin Collins is the creator of the Brakeman static analysis for Rails tool and was presenting on Tales from the Crypt a team presentation…
Aino Vonge Corry
Aino Vonge Corry is a long time friend of the GOTO Conference and was out at GOTO Chicago 2014 conducting interviews with presenters as wel…
Evan Light
Hadi Hariri
Interview with Hadi Hariri a Tech Evangelist with JetBrains
Fred Guime
Interview with Fred Guime the current president for the Chicago Java User-Group, CJUG. CJUG went through a period that saw it nearly being …
Robert Martin
James Edward Gray
Ryan Gerry
Ryan Gerry is the lead organizer for Software Craftsmanship McHenry County (SCMC) a Craftsmanship focused User-Group in the far northwester…
Avdi Grimm
Courtney Hemphill
Courtney Hemphill is a lead developer at Carbon Five and she presented Mixing Lean UX and Agile Development: How to minimize risk, maximize…
Max De Marzi
Max De Marzi is a developer with Neo4j and a user-group organizer with the Graph Database Chicago UG. He presented at GOTO Chicago 2014 on …
Michael Ficarra
Interview with Michael Ficarra creator of CoffeeScript Redux
Jen Myers
Giles Bowkett
Richard Lee
Richard Lee is responsible for the Heat component of the OpenStack Orchestration program. Richard explains how he got involved with develop…
Angelique Martin
Interview with Angelique Martin at SCNA 2013
Chris Whitaker
Chris Whitaker is a White House Champion of Change and was a Chicago Code Brigade Captain for Code for America the last time we spoke. Now …
Culley Smith
Eric Kingery
Interview with Eric Kingery at SCNA 2013
Mandi Walls
Andrea Magnorsky
Sean Massa and Todd Larsen
Zachary Shaw
Interview with Zachary Shaw at SCNA 2013
Russ Unger and Shay Howe
Interview with Shay Howe & Russ Unger at WebVisions Chicago 2013
Tim Ottinger
Leon Gersing
Empathy and Self-acceptance
Leon is just one of those guys who has a good time programming and wants you to know that it's okay for you to have a good time too.
Jim Suchy and Steve Kim
Arthur Kay
Cindy Sprague
Cindy Sprague is one of those people who makes things happen and most all of us don't even know what was going on. Cindy was a COO with Obj…
Charles Nutter
Adewale Oshineye
Interview with Adewale Oshineye as SCNA 2013
Anna Lear
Carina C. Zona
Interview with Carina C. Zona at SCNA 2013
Igor Polevoy
Anthony Zinni, Jon Buda, and Shay Howe
Mike Pack
Mike Pack tells us about the Full Stack Meetup that he organizes in Denver, Colorado as well as the Denver.rb user-group that he co-organiz…
Stephen Anderson
Interview with Stephen Anderson as SCNA 2013
Randy Ellis
Corey Haines
Evan Light
Evan Light is a frequent contributor to F/OSS and even works with Rackspace to help with their integration with tools such as the Fog RubyG…
Clark Sell and Pat Paasch
Ray Hightower
Dave Hoover
Brian Ray
Jason Cranford Teague
Interview with Jason Cranford Teague at WebVisions Chicago 2013.
Ken Auer
Tim Murphy
Sam Serpoosh
Brad Wilkening
Colin Jones
Chet Hendrickson and Ron Jeffries
Interview with Chet Hendrickson & Ron Jefferies at SCNA 2013
Carl Erickson
Joel Clermont
Mike Busch
Aaron Bedra
Brian Marick
Michael Eaton
Ethan Gunderson and Ryan Briones
Scott Seely
Brad Smith
Interview with Brad Smith the founder of the WebVisions Conferences.
Adam Connor
Interview with Adam Connor at WebVisions Chicago 2013
Mike Clement
David Dickinson and Ross Beehler
Mike Burton
Rob Reynolds
Zachary Shaw
Mike Stringer
Chris Whitaker
Paul Baker
Organizer Open Government Chicago(-land)
Paul Baker co-organizes the Open Government Chicago(-land) user group. He's been an active organizer for government data projects and lead …
Dustin Updyke
Super awesome guy Dustin was kind enough to hang around so I could interview both him and Michael Norton at the end of SCNA. Here we chat a…
Justin Love
Justin Love is very active in the Chicago Ruby & JavaScript communities. He's also starting up a Demo Days group out in the far suburbs…
Daniel X. O'Neil
Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative and organizer OpenGovChicago User-Group
Governments are slowly becoming more technologically aware and accessible. An early leader in the Open Government movement, Daniel X. O'Nei…
Zach Dennis
Mark Simpson
Adewale Oshineye
Adewale Oshineye is a co-author of the Apprenticeship Patterns book and has spent a lot of time thinking about different ways for people to…
Eric Macadie
Eric MacAdie has been in the Chicago Java UG scene for a while but is now looking at starting up Ruby Testing and JavaScript UG's to help f…
Bryan Liles
Bryan Liles is an extremely engaging speaker and takes some time to share his experience within the Ruby community over the years. Bryan sh…
Aaron Holbrook
Organizer McHenry County WordPress User-Group
Sandro Mancuso
Dave Thomas
Stephen Anderson
Angelique Martin
Mike Miller
GOTO Chicago 2015