RubyConf Colombia’s 2017 speakers

Sebastian Sogamoso
Jul 21, 2017 · 3 min read

We are pleased to announce this year’s speakers.

The selection process was a particularly difficult. We focused on getting more technical than previous years. We received 141 talk proposals. Most were high quality.

We ended up with a mix of mostly technical talks (not all specific to Ruby) keeping in mind to keep them all interesting to people with various levels of expertise. We will also have talks about leading software development teams, mental health and UX. The schedule should be live in the next few weeks.

Get your ticket here, in case you haven’t already.

The speakers

Without further ado…

Aaron Patterson

Aaron Patterson

Works at Github. Ruby Core team and Rails Core team member.

Chanelle Henry

Chanelle Henry

Researcher at Duke. With a background in psychology, computer science, cybersecurity, UX/UI, writing and speaking.

Crystal C. Yan

Crystal C. Yan

Design Lead for MyHealthEd’s Real Talk.

Dana Scheider

Dana Scheider

Works at NewRelic. Cucumber core team member.

Eileen M. Uchitelle

Eileen M. Uchitelle

Works at Github. Rails Core team member.

Gabi Stefanini

Gabi Stefanini

Works at Shopify. Helped in the upgrade of Shopify’s codebase to Rails 5.

Jason Charnes

Jason Charnes

Organizer of Southeast Ruby Conference. Supporter of Prompt, an organization raising awareness of Mental Health in tech.

Juan Pablo Buriticá

Juan Pablo Buriticá

Works at Splice. Focuses on building effective distributed engineering teams and latino/latam dev communities.

Mario Chávez

Mario Chávez

Works at Michelada.io. Has 8 years of experience working with Ruby.

Nicole Lopez

Nicole Lopez

Works at Avant. Director of Technology for the Midwest Access Coalition.

Óscar López

Óscar López

Works at Tappsi. Teaches programming courses at Universidad de los Andes.

Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Works at WeWork. Author of Build APIs You Won’t Hate book.

Sebastián Arcila

Sebastián Arcila

Works at Barista Labs. He is a member of Coljure (Colombia Clojure).

Terence Lee

Terence Lee

Works at Heroku. Has contributed to Open Source projects like Ruby, mruby, mruby-cli, Bundler and the Rails Girls program.

Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott

Works at Circle CI. Commiter to Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, mruby and mruby-cli.

Are you convinced now? Get your ticket here.

RubyConf Colombia

The largest gathering of the year for the Spanish speaking Ruby community

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Sebastian Sogamoso

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Software engineer at Cookpad. Organizer of @RubyConfCo

RubyConf Colombia

The largest gathering of the year for the Spanish speaking Ruby community

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