Hi, I’m Robert. I’ve been a Ruby/Rails dev for 16 years now. I run the Berkeley Ruby meetup Saturday mornings, so if you’re an early bird and in the area, would love to see you there!
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Hello 
I’m Fabrizio. I’m using Ruby (most of time Rails) since 2013. Oh, I like Elixir too!
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Eric here. Been working with RoR at a non-profit for 15+ years (Ruby itself for longer). In a past life I worked with Java.
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Hello 
I am Ender. I live in a small town in Turkey. I’ve been using Ruby for 14 years. Currently, I am working in Teamtailor as a Software Developer. It’s a Swedish based ATS company. I am working there remotely.
I also organize Ruby Türkiye local group. I develop an open source RSS Reader called Bloudme
You can find more details about me in my blog.
Cheers 
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Hi, I am Fernando, but ussualy go as oinak online. I am a software developer from Madrid, Spain. I started working with Ruby back in 2006.
I have been conference volunteer, speaker and organizer.
Nowadays I send my free time practicing saber fencing.
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Hello!
I started learning Rails around 2008 and am excited to see the framework continue to grow and improve. My background has UNIX origins, which is why I built unixcasts.com as a side project in Rails a few years ago. Hit me up if you’re interested in sharing programming tips, especially areas of the CLI, web development, Neovim, or Ruby.
Thanks,
Chip
@chip on github
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Hello!
I’m Peter. I teach computer science in England, and have used Ruby, on and off, since version 1.8.7 - I remember picking up a book (pickaxe?) because I wanted to learn what Ruby’s modules had to do with “mixins”.
These days, I use Ruby mostly for some data analysis and simple applications. And “rake” - I have Rakefiles everywhere to help build documentation, create materials, package software, etc.
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Hello, world! 
I am Lucas, a Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience with a special focus on Ruby/Ruby on Rails.
For the past 2 years I’ve been doing freelance work unrelated to IT. Currently, I am actively seeking new job opportunities.
I also have a background in QA. While writing automated test scripts was when I met the ruby language and I’m still excited to work with them every day.
Outside of work I’m a cyclist, a hobby artist and a bedroom junglist.
I’ve been learning in public on my blog and sharing my two cents on Mastodon, BlueSky and LinkedIn.
Nice to be here!
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Hi, I’m Guilherme, but you can call me Guim, that’s my nickname. I’m a software enginner, that do backend stuffs in Ruby on Rails for almost 5 years, I started to working with in the late 2021, but being studying programming since 2018.
I like to be a part of a community, but that’s the first time I’m active in one, i’ve never been in a ruby community before. I also joined discord server of the ruby programming language.
I`m here because I want to connect with people and acquire more knowledge. I’m not a Senior Developer yet, but I would love to collaborate in some cool projects in the open source world
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G’day, I’m Sean!
I’ve been programming professionally in Ruby and Rails for 10~ years now and love it, although I have recently started branching out into Hanami.
I’m also the creator of the mruby game engine Taylor.
I’ve also got a blog where I post each week about interesting things I’ve done and seen around the web.
Needless to say I’m a big fan of Ruby and it’s easily my favourite language.
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Hey, all! I’m David, and I’ve been working professionally with Ruby and Rails for over 15 years. I’m currently a senior staff software engineer at Freshworks working on FireHydrant (we were acquired last month 
) out in Portland, OR. Previously, I’ve worked for companies like Stripe, HashiCorp, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and New Relic. I like to describe myself as an “empathy-driven engineer” because I try to bring empathy into every part of my process by understanding that everyone, be they users or colleagues, come from diverse backgrounds with different needs (but it helps that I’ve pretty much only ever worked on tools or products for other software engineers 
).
I have a small number of open source projects and gems in GitHub but these days I try not to spend too much of my time outside of work on tech. That being said, I think the Ruby community is in desperate need of more welcoming spaces, so I decided to sign up and say “hi” after Javier sent me an invite. You can also find me at my personal site, https://davidcel.is, which is of course a Rails app I built from scratch because there wasn’t any blogging software out there that scratched my particular Indieweb itches (cross-posting in specific ways, a multitude of post types, etc.).
Happy to be here!
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Hello everybody from Croatia!
My name is Iskren, and I’m currently learning Ruby and Rails (via building stuff) to hopefully one day become a junior developer. I fell in love with Ruby two years ago, and attending EuRuKo in Sarajevo that same year was an absolutely precious experience for me. I still can’t believe that all those people were Ruby developers. 
Happy to be a member of this space as I find the forum energy and context far more pleasant than places like Slack, Discord, Reddit, or social networks. 
I also can’t imagine living without music, so I am singing in two etno choirs and playing the frame drum in one. 
Cheers! 
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Hi! I’m Ellen, but you might know me as puppy, duckie, or duckinator.
I’ve been using Ruby since I was a teenager (sometime around 2005-2008).
From 2015-2025 I was one of the maintainers for RubyGems.
Currently, I’m on the Project Leadership Committee for Gem Coop. I’ve also been working on Jwl (pronounced “jewel”).
I seem to perpetually find myself working on build/release tools (bork for Python, dist for Rust, jwl for Ruby).
In addition to programming, I also sometimes record music, take photos/videos, attempt woodworking, and try to figure out how to organize my Nerf/Dart Zone arsenal that’s currently strewn across 4 rooms.
My website, pup-e.com, has updates on my projects, links to my music, and photos I’ve taken.
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Hey everyone, nice to be here!
I’m Ayush. I’ve been working with Ruby and Rails as a freelancer since 2020.
I’m on Bridgetown core and I’m the author of The Rails and Hotwire Codex. I also run scattergun.email.
Outside work, I have an unhealthy obsession with cricket and music (mainly progressive rock I suppose although I don’t quite understand genre). I dabble in photography too: https://fslash42.com.
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Hello all.
I’m Josh, and I’ve been working with Ruby for a bit over 2 years now. I’m also a maintainer at The Odin Project.
Outside of tech: I live in Portland, OR. I love animals, all kinds of movies, good food, and learning to play musical instruments.
Glad to be here! Awesome to have a space like this.
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Hello everyone!
I’m Russ Olsen. I’m a software engineer, sometimes tech manager, occasional conference speaker and writer.
I’ve been using Ruby since about the 1.6 days. Most recently I am about done with the upcoming Eloquent Ruby, Second Edition. My other books include Getting Clojure and Design Patterns in Ruby. I’ve also written a sci fi novel, Overdrive.
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Hi everyone!
I’m Tony. I started working with Ruby back in 2020, and it very quickly became my favorite programming language. I currently work on building out backend apps with Rails, with a decent bit of work in Next.js (enough to be dangerous). Also a big fan of terminal-based applications.
Outside of work, I’m an espresso lover (my latté art is looking pretty good these days!), car enthusiast (my daily is a 1991 Mazda Miata), urbanism enjoyer, and caretaker for two hilarious little mini dachsunds. Currently living in Boise, ID.
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Hi Everyone, I am from Bombay, India.
I have been working with Ruby since almost a decade now, currently working as a Senior Ruby on Rails contractor with US based EdTech platform.
I am also author of my OS gem/rails engine called Rails Error Dashboard
I enjoy travel, reading, movies, food and playing carrom.
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