Igor Morozov shares what the ruby community looks like in Moscow, Russia and what Russian developers are doing. He talks about deciding to be a developer to make video games at 8 years old. He shares how scripting Grand Theft Auto really got him into developing. Igor and Charles Max Wood discuss university and learning through doing projects versus learning by reading books. Igor shares how he got into Ruby and what about Ruby made him stay a Ruby developer. The episode ends with Igor sharing what he is currently working on and what his everyday life looks like.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Lori Olson, Chief Instructor at WNDX School where she teaches software developers of all kinds to become published App authors, using RubyMotion. Lori invites all to come to her “six steps from idea to app store”

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Tung Nguyen, President and Founder of BoltOps AWS Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy, a Bay Area based DevOps infrastructure consultancy. Tung is also the creator of Ruby on Jets. Listen to Tung on the podcast Ruby Rogues here.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Pedro Cavalheiro a software engineer at Xing from Brazil, currently residing in Hamburg, Germany. He has been working with Ruby and PHP languages, and since 2015 has been working full-time with Ruby on Rails. Listen to Pedro on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Justin Searls, co-founder of Test Double, a software agency which helps developers improve their quality of the software. Listen to Justin on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode and this episode. Justin got into programming playing with his Casio Calculator when he was 10 years old. He came up with little games such as guessing the number. Later on, he added features and soon created an ephemeral checkers game. He had no knowledge about the basics of programming and everything was self-directive.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Stefan Wintermeyer, a freelancer developer from Germany focused on Ruby on Rails, Phoenix Framework, and web performance. Listen to Stefan on the podcast Ruby Rogues here.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sebastian Sogamoso, a software developer from Colombia. Sebastian now lives in Panama City and works for CookPad.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles chats with Genadi Samokovarov, a software developer who loves using Ruby.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Josh Justice, software engineer at Big Nerd Ranch, a Mobile app development, training and design firm.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Chandan Jhunjhunwal, a tech lead at Coupa Software from Pune India.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Vladimir Dementyev, a backend engineer at Evil Martians and a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang. He is also the author of Author of AnyCable, TestProf and ActionPolicy.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Radoslav Stankov, the head of the engineering team at Product Hunt.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sihui Huang, a software engineer at Gusto, which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies.

In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Luca Guidi, Senior Software Developer at DNSimple and creator of Hanami ( previously Lotus framework) from Italy.

Charles Max Wood introduces the newest panelist for Ruby Rogues, Andrew Mason. Andrew shares his background and how got into computer programming. Andrew and Charles share their stories of first using ruby and the sense of wonder they felt. Andrew talks about what he has done in Ruby and shares his excitement to learn while on Ruby Rogues.