My Ruby Story

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Feb 20, 2019

MRS 078: Vlad Dem

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.

Feb 13, 2019

MRS 077: Radoslav Stankov

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

Feb 06, 2019

MRS 076: Sihui Huang

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.

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Sihui Huang
Jan 30, 2019

MRS 075: Luca Guidi

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.

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Luca Guidi
Jan 24, 2019

MRS 074: Andrew Mason

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.

Dec 19, 2018

MRS 073: Kerri Miller

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Kerri Miller who is a developer who resides in Seattle! Chuck and Kerri talk about her background, how she got into programming, software, and much more. Check it out!

Dec 05, 2018

MRS 072: Olivier Lacan

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Olivier Lacan who works for Pluralsight remotely while living in France. Chuck and Olivier talk about his background, his education, and how he got into Ruby. Check it out!

Nov 28, 2018

MRS 071: Mark Bates

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Mark Bates who is a consultant, trainer, entrepreneur, co-founder of PaperCall, and an author! Chuck and Mark talk about PaperCall, GO, Ruby, JavaScript, and helping others within the community. Check out today’s episode to hear more!

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Mark Bates
Nov 21, 2018

MRS 070: Michael King

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Michael King who is a developer, an enthusiast for natural languages, developing, and mathematics. Charles and Michael talk about his background, and past/current projects that Michael is working on right now. Other topics of discussion include Ruby, Rails, Audacity, PHP, RubyMotion, and React Native. Check it out!

Nov 14, 2018

MRS 069: Paweł Dąbrowski

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Paweł Dąbrowski who is a coder and author who resides in Poland. He is a blogger and writes about the Ruby language, Ruby on Rails, and related technologies. To read more about Paweł, please visit his ABOUT ME via his blog. Today, Chuck and Paweł talk about Ruby, Paweł’s background, and much more! Check it out

Nov 07, 2018

MRS 068: Jérémie Bonal

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Jérémie Bonal who works at Ekylibre. He is a web developer and he has been using Ruby for the past few years now. They talk about Jérémie’s background, Ruby, Ekylibre, past/current projects, and so much more! Check it out!

Oct 31, 2018

MRS 067: Daniel P. Clark

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Daniel Clark who is a Ruby and Rust enthusiast, blogger, and freelancer. Daniel and Chuck talk about Daniel’s background, and his past/current projects. Check out today’s episode!

Oct 24, 2018

MRS 066: Nassredean Nasseri

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Dean who is a senior software engineer at VTS, Inc. in New York City. Dean uses Ruby and is an advocate for the software. He and Chuck discuss his background, current projects, and more!

Oct 17, 2018

MRS 065: Nell Shamrell-Harrington

This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Nell who is a principle engineer at Chef. Check them out at Chef.Io. She also works with Operation Code. This organization helps veterans to learn code, and helps them get a technical job. Check out today’s episode where Chuck and Nell discuss Ruby, Rust, and much more!

Oct 10, 2018

MRS 064: Nathan Kontny

This week on My Ruby Story, the panel talks with Nathan Kontny who has been in the Ruby community since 2005. He once was a chemical engineer, and then got into programming after a broken ankle incident; after that...the rest is history! Today, Nathan and Chuck talk about Ruby, how to begin a startup company, Rockstar Coders, balancing life, and much more!

Oct 03, 2018

MRS 063: Victor Shepelev

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks with Victor Shepelev who is a Ruby programmer and also a poet. He works for Verbit.ai and lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Chuck and Victor talk about his background, how Victor got into Ruby, and his latest projects.

Sep 26, 2018

MRS 062: Neil Brown

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks with Dr. Neil Brown who is a researcher. He helps people teach “how to program” more effectively and efficiently. Check out his social media pages and his research via the web. Chuck and Neil talk about his research among other topics.

Sep 19, 2018

MRS 061: Erik Dietrich

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Erik Dietrich who is a consultant and a business owner. After he left the IT life, he is a partner for a content marketing company among others.

Sep 12, 2018

MRS 060: Jamie Wright

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Jamie Wright about his background and current projects that he is working on. Ruby Rogue interviewed Jamie on Episode 326 – check out that episode for more information. Chuck and Jamie discuss many topics, but one in particular is truly inspiring and that is Jamie’s impact within his community: teaching! Jamie is enthused to help students with designing games and helping them with programming. Check-out today’s episode to hear more!

Sep 05, 2018

MRS 059: Rob Miller

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Rob Miller. Rob is a return guess from Ruby Rogues 235. Rob shares his journey into programming, starting with creating HTML and CSS and website building. Rob talks about his book Text Processing with Ruby and projects and he is currently working on.

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Rob Miller
Aug 29, 2018

MRS 058: Aaron Sumner

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Aaron Sumner. Aaron is a senior software engineer at O’Reilly Media as well as runs the blog Everyday Rails and wrote a book entitled Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec. He first got into programming when his school got a computer and he took a computer class at a local community college that he took in order to learn how to write games. They talk about how he got into Ruby, what he is proud of contributing to the community, why he decided to write his book, and more!

Aug 22, 2018

MRS 057: Justin Collins

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Justin Collins. Justin is most well known in the Ruby community for Brakeman and he was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 219. Justin first got into programming when he was about 11 or 12 when his uncle handed down to him his TRS-80 Model 100 computer. They talk about his experience with event-driven programming, how he got into Ruby, what it was about Ruby that really got him excited, how Brakeman came to be, and more!

Aug 15, 2018

MRS 056: Sean Fioritto

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Sean Fioritto. Sean is a developer that five years ago quit his job to do his own thing and work on different projects such as Sketching with CSS, Angular Escape Plan training, and consulting. He first got into programming when he had an idea to create things such as rooms and spells in his MOO game. They talk about how he got into professional style programming, how he got into drawing with CSS, why he created the Angular Escape Plan, and more!

Aug 08, 2018

MRS 055: Nadia Odunayo

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Nadia Odunayo. Nadia was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 264 and she used to have her own podcast called Ruby Book Club. She first got into programming because when she was in college she launched a creative writing publication and she was frustrated that she had to keep asking others for help. This was when she started researching coding and how it all worked so that she could put her ideas into action. They talk about Ruby being the first programming language she learned, the importance of learning both the frontend and the backend, her desire to run her own thing, her need to find a company that would support her learning, and more!

Aug 01, 2018

MRS 054: Mark Locklear

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Mark Locklear. Mark first got into programming when there wasn’t a lot of opportunities for him to continue to work in quality assurance and he decided he wanted a change of career, so he went to community college to learn programming. They talk about how he was first exposed to Rails, where he is working currently, and what was it about Rails that got him excited. They also touch on what made him want to move from quality assurance, how he mentors his students at the community college, and more!