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September 6-7, 2019

Thank you for attending the first Ruby Conference in Bangkok

Speakers

  • Photo of Tim Riley Keynote
    Tim Riley
    @timriley

    Tim is a partner at Icelab, an Australian design agency, and a committed open source software contributor. He’s a co-founder and core team member of dry-rb, core team member of rom-rb, and part of the team building Hanami 2.

  • Photo of Richard Schneeman Keynote
    Richard Schneeman
    @schneems

    Richard codes for Heroku & is married to Ruby, literally. He built CodeTriage.com, the easiest way to get started contributing to Open Source. He also runs a quirky conf in Austin, Texas @keeprubyweird.

  • Photo of Saron Yitbarek Keynote
    Saron Yitbarek
    @saronyitbarek

    Saron is the CEO and founder of CodeNewbie, the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. She's also a developer, speaker, and podcaster.

  • Photo of Charles Nutter Keynote
    Charles Nutter
    @headius

    Charles is one of the JRuby guys. He is a Ruby Hero and Java Champion too! He works every day to make JRuby the best JVM-based Ruby possible while pushing JVM folks and other language authors to keep improving the platform.

  • Photo of Radoslav Stankov
    Radoslav Stankov
    @rstankov

    Radoslav is currently the Head of Engineering at Product Hunt (by AngelList). Lately, juggling between Ruby and JavaScript projects. Organizer of React.NotAConf conference and React.Sofia meetup.

  • Photo of Piotr Murach
    Piotr Murach
    @piotr_murach

    Piotr is a Software Engineer with an interest in tooling, automation, and testing. A creator of over 50 Ruby gems including the TTY toolkit for building sleek command line apps. He writes about software, technology and more on piotrmurach.com.

  • Photo of Giovanni Sakti
    Giovanni Sakti
    @giosakti

    Gio comes from Jakarta where he works for Go-Jek as a Systems Engineer. He organizes various meetups, including ruby.id and jakartajs.org. His interests include programming languages and developer automation.

  • Photo of Vishal Chandnani
    Vishal Chandnani

    Vishal is the Head of Engineering (Astral) at IEX in New York City. Prior to IEX, he worked as a Senior Software Consultant at Def Method. At The Boeing Company, he developed software for the US Government Intelligence Community.

  • Photo of Tae Noppakun Wongsrinoppakun
    Tae Noppakun Wongsrinoppakun
    @tae8838

    Tae is originally from Bangkok, but lives in Tokyo. Currently, he is a Software Engineer at Wovn Technologies building a platform to localize the internet. If he is not in front of his laptop or Nintendo Switch, he is probably on a mountain somewhere.

  • Photo of Kazuma Furuhashi
    Kazuma Furuhashi
    @284km

    Kazuma is a Programmer and the Creator of a visualization library named Charty. A member of Asakusa.rb and Red Data Tools. Working at Speee Inc.

  • Photo of Gabriel Fortuna
    Gabriel Fortuna
    @gee_forr

    Gabriel is the Founder of Zero One Bespoke Software Development, a South African Ruby consultancy that specialises in software for the Telecom industry. In his day job, he tells computers what to do. Sometimes they listen.

  • Photo of Rodrigo Urubatan
    Rodrigo Urubatan
    @urubatan

    Rodrigo is a experienced polyglot Software Developer since 1997. He currently works for Brightwire and has the goal to help Ruby developers to use the best tools for each job, so they can solve hard problems, with less bugs and have more free time.

  • Photo of Sergey Dolganov
    Sergey Dolganov
    @ss_dolganov

    Sergey is an experienced Software Developer interested in building a strong and sustainable community around OSS and likes to discuss different ways to profile, debug and optimize applications. He also loves dogs and is a drummer and musician.

  • Photo of Jaroslava Košanová
    Jaroslava Košanová
    @jajina_k

    Jarka is Ruby Backend Engineer working on GitLab, a single application with features for the entire DevOps lifecycle. She really enjoys working for the remote-only company because she has an active lifestyle and takes care of her 1.5 year old daughter.

  • Photo of Harley Davidson Karel
    Harley Davidson Karel
    @harleydavidkar1

    Harley is an Application Security Consultant for Vantage Point Security. Certified Ethical Hacker, speaker for several conferences in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Tokyo and Bangkok with topics related to application security.

  • Photo of Shweta Kale
    Shweta Kale
    @shwetakale13

    Shweta is an avid Rubyist and Gopher working with Josh Software from past 5 years. She co-organises RubyConf India, Deccan RubyConf, RailsGirls Pune and GoLang Girls Pune.

  • Photo of Phil Nash
    Phil Nash
    @philnash

    Phil is a Developer Evangelist for Twilio and a Google Developer Expert. 10 years of experience building with JavaScript, Ruby and Swift. Sometimes he makes his own beer, but he is more likely to be found discovering new ones around the world.

  • Photo of Vipul Am
    Vipul Am
    @vipulnsward

    Vipul is the Founder of Saeloun Inc, a Ruby on Rails Consultancy. Part of the Rails team. Author of ReactJS by Example. He helps run the Pune Ruby and ReactJS Pune communities. He also organizes Deccan RubyConf in Pune.

  • Photo of Melvrick Goh
    Melvrick Goh

    Melvrick is a Senior Engineer at Ascenda Loyalty and currently leads TransferConnect. He likes coding an Ruby makes it even more joyful. Outside of work, he likes reading, an occasional jog and writing in the 3rd person for conference intros.

  • Photo of Enrique Mogollan
    Enrique Mogollan
    @mogox

    Enrique has been writing code passionately for more than 12 years. He is a big fan of pair programming and believes that collaborative environments are the key to promote quality code and improve software design.

  • Photo of Anton Davydov
    Anton Davydov
    @anton_davydov

    Anton is a Hanami and dry-rb Core Developer and an indie developer from Moscow. He works on different open source projects and builds space-rocket ships at night.

  • Photo of Elle Meredith
    Elle Meredith
    @aemeredith

    Elle is a Web Developer with over ten years experience writing Ruby and Rails. Currently at Blackmill, previously Development Director at Thoughtbot New York. When not immersed in the Ruby community, she is likely immersed in water, or lately, in bread flour.

  • Photo of Janko Marohnić
    Janko Marohnić
    @jankomarohnic

    Janko is a Ruby off Rails evangelist and a frequent open source contributor. He firmly believes the future of the Ruby ecosystem lies outside of Rails, and frequently blogs about it. He is the Creator of Shrine, a modern file attachment library for Ruby.

Schedule

Friday

  • Registration & Conference Door Opens
  • Welcome Address
  • Photo of Tim Riley
    Opening Keynote
    Tim Riley
  • Photo of Vipul Am
    Beyond REST in Rails
    Vipul Am
  • Tea Break
  • Photo of Tae Noppakun Wongsrinoppakun
    Pattern Matching In Ruby 2.7
    Tae Noppakun Wongsrinoppakun
  • Photo of Kazuma Furuhashi
    Charty - Visualize Real-world Data with Ruby
    Kazuma Furuhashi
  • Photo of Jarka Košanová
    How to collaborate and keep healthy culture in a full-remote company
    Jarka Košanová
  • Photo of Rodrigo Urubatan
    Data Science in Ruby? Is it possible? Is it Fast? Should we use it?
    Rodrigo Urubatan
  • Buffet Lunch
  • Sponsor Lightning Talk - Official Partner
  • Photo of Piotr Murach
    It is correct but is it fast?
    Piotr Murach
  • Photo of Enrique Mogollan
    The developer who wanted to refactor the moon
    Enrique Mogollan
  • Photo of Radoslav Stankov
    How to get to zero unhandled exceptions in production
    Radoslav Stankov
  • Tea break
  • Photo of Giovanni Sakti
    Practical Guide to Discourage your Boss from Migrating into Kubernetes
    Giovanni Sakti
  • Photo of Gabriel Fortuna
    How we use service objects to make our apps clean, composable, maintainable, and testable.
    Gabriel Fortuna
  • Photo of Charles Nutter
    Closing Keynote: Scalable Applications with JRuby
    Charles Nutter
  • Closing Remarks/Announcements
  • Official Party
    Hosted at Bangkok Heritage, a short walk away

Saturday

  • Registration & Conference Door Opens
  • Welcome Address
  • Photo of Richard Schneeman
    Opening keynote: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ActiveRecord Allocations
    Richard Schneeman
  • Photo of Anton Davydov
    Events. Events. Events!
    Anton Davydov
  • Tea Break
  • Photo of Vishal Chandnani
    Debug Hard: Ruby String Library Methods and Underlying C Implementations
    Vishal Chandnani
  • Photo of Harley Davidson Karel
    Security Issues on Your Ruby Code
    Harley Davidson Karel
  • Photo of Melvrick Goh
    Metaprogramming DSLs for managing complexity at scale
    Melvrick Goh
  • Photo of Shweta Kale
    Go-ing a long way with Rails
    Shweta Kale
  • Buffet Lunch
  • Photo of Janko Marohnić
    Handling file uploads for a modern developer
    Janko Marohnić
  • Photo of Elle Meredith
    Start your own engineering apprenticeship program
    Elle Meredith
  • Photo of Phil Nash
    Smaller is always better
    Phil Nash
  • Photo of Sergey Dolganov
    Dirty Magic for Resilient API Dependencies
    Sergey Dolganov
  • Tea Break
  • Photo of Saron Yitbarek
    Closing Keynote
    Saron Yitbarek
  • Closing Remarks/Announcements

Venue

The event took place in the heart of Bangkok in the conveniently located Pullman Bangkok King Power near Victory Monument. The venue is accessible both by BTS (Victory Monument) and the Airport Link (Phaya Thai).

First time in Bangkok? Check out our travel guide and A-Z of practicalities.

Pullman Bangkok King Power 8-2 Rang Nam Alley Khwaeng Thanon Phaya Thai, Khet Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400
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