Alexandra Masterson Conference Marketing and Event Coordinator at Trifork Support my interviews on Patreon Become a Patreon Patron for e…
Dean Wampler Organizer Chicago Spark & Scala User Groups Dean Wampler is the Big Data Architect at Typesafe and specializes in the ap…
Dave Duggal Founder, EnterpriseWeb Dave Duggal, Founder / Managing Director Dave is the founder of EnterpriseWeb. His company offers an a…
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 CTO, ThoughtWorks Dr. Parsons has more than 20 years of application development experience in industries ranging from tel…
Co-lead JRuby Project The JVM has traditionally hosted many languages, but only those closest to Java itself got the full optimization tre…
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 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 is an expert in high performance Java systems and a developer with MongoDB. She wanted to see about building a buzzword-complian…
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.
Interview with Stuart Halloway at SCNA 2013
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 is one of those rare outliers who has an unbelievable talent for creating complex tools that are incredibly useful and help dr…
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 (@Bantik) gave a talk about Artisans & Apprentices at RailsConf 2014. She describes her experences and what led her …
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…
John Jarosz & Coleman Collins share their experience building systems that are heavily dependent on human interaction and change. They …
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 shares with us some information on the Rails Girls Summer of Code event while at RailsConf 2014. Learn more about how YOU can par…
Vooza | http://vooza.com @voozahq | https://twitter.com/voozahq @mattruby | https://twitter.com/mattruby Matt Ruby transformed his experie…
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…
Interview with Amitai Schlair a member of the Board of Directors for The NetBSD Foundation.
Alex Rutkowski & Joel Friedman are full-time remote collaborators and they share some of their experiences collaborating with distribut…
Interview with Leslie Borrell & Alberto Silveira from Amplify Access on their GOTO Chicago 2014 presentation Creating Collaborative Dis…
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 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 is the Executive Director and Board Vice Chair with the Women Who Code organiztion. WWC is a non-profit dedicated to …
Jonathon Kresner was at RailsConf conducting online interviews with speakers at RailsConf to promote his company AirPair. I was interested …
This interview with Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale was the first attempt we made at publishing a conversation on UGtastic. It was also my first…
Liz Abinante aka @feministy is the co-leader of Girl Develop It Chicago chapter.
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 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 was amongst the first people interviewed on UGtastic and he's back talking about his latest conference announcement - RubyCar…
Interview with Andy Maleh at RailsConf Chicago 2014. Andy presented Ultra Light and Maintainable Rails Wizards at the conference and we cha…
Fred George spoke at GOTO Chicago 2014 on Implementing Programmer Anarchy. I've often heard that managing programmers is like herding cats,…
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 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 a Rails Core team member and a maintainer of the Devise and simple_form RubyGems shares some insight into the trick…
Russ Olsen chats with us about his presentation Programming in Interesting Times and explains why we should be thinking beyond our current …
Leah Silber shares with us her experience with building and supporting large technical communities.
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 is an organizer with GOTO Chicago and shares insight into the events and how she got involved as a conference organizer.
Interview with Nitin Dhaware and Dnyaneshwar Nerkar (Gyani) at RailsConf 2014. We discuss their presentation Empowering Rich Internet Appli…
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 challenges us to go back to the beginning of Rails and the eventual adoption of the REST concepts to think about what REST m…
Sarah Allen and Desi McAdam are working to help teach Rails and Ruby development through their Railsbridge Womens Outreach workshops. We ch…
Emily Rosengren is a developer who also works to help User-Groups coordinate with ThoughtWorks for sponsorships and hosting events. Emily s…
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 shares his experience that lead to his presentation on Debugger Driven Development. He describes the Pry tool a beautiful enh…
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 aka Schneems chats about his work at Heroku as well as his work and history with the Ruby community and his new book Hero…
Jeremy Green shares his presentation on how to build authentication systems that can span multiple SOA nodes but work with a single system …
Interview Rainey Reitman & Sina Khanifar regarding their work on the Contact-Congress project http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congre…
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…
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 walks us through the journey he went through while learning and changing the message he wanted to share though his presentati…
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 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 is a long time friend of the GOTO Conference and was out at GOTO Chicago 2014 conducting interviews with presenters as wel…
Interview with Fred Guime the current president for the Chicago Java User-Group, CJUG. CJUG went through a period that saw it nearly being …
Ryan Gerry is the lead organizer for Software Craftsmanship McHenry County (SCMC) a Craftsmanship focused User-Group in the far northwester…
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 is a developer with Neo4j and a user-group organizer with the Graph Database Chicago UG. He presented at GOTO Chicago 2014 on …
Richard Lee is responsible for the Heat component of the OpenStack Orchestration program. Richard explains how he got involved with develop…
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 …
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.
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…
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…
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…
Paul Baker co-organizes the Open Government Chicago(-land) user group. He's been an active organizer for government data projects and lead …
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 is very active in the Chicago Ruby & JavaScript communities. He's also starting up a Demo Days group out in the far suburbs…
Governments are slowly becoming more technologically aware and accessible. An early leader in the Open Government movement, Daniel X. O'Nei…
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 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…
GOTO Chicago 2015