RubyConf Colombia’s 2017 speakers
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
Works at Github. Ruby Core team and Rails Core team member.

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

Crystal C. Yan
Design Lead for MyHealthEd’s Real Talk.

Dana Scheider
Works at NewRelic. Cucumber core team member.

Eileen M. Uchitelle
Works at Github. Rails Core team member.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zachary Scott
Works at Circle CI. Commiter to Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, mruby and mruby-cli.
Are you convinced now? Get your ticket here.

