Nick is a Ruby Software Engineer but has previously dabbled as a Radio and Television Host, Community Manager, Flashmob Coordinator, Board Game Designer, Effective Altruist and Sex Educator.
He is eager to facilitate Ruby Australia continuing to grow into an eclectic, diverse and supportive community and is always eager to hear suggestions on how to do so.
Kieran is a passionate Ruby Developer from Adelaide after discovering it 2011.
In his spare time Kieran enjoys making home-made pizza, playing board games and snowboarding around the world.
Writer of Rails Guides, Rails 4 in Action, Super Hero and Answerer of Stack Overflow Questions. Works at Culture Amp as the Junior Engineering Program Lead. Continuously mistaken for Ryan Bates.
Previously: President/Vice President/General Member of the Ruby AU committee, co-organiser of RubyConf AU 2019, RailsCamps 22 and 24, and the Melbourne Ruby meetup, technical recruiter at Lookahead and Automattic. Currently: Technical recruiter at A Cloud Guru and Crew Talent Advisory
Lee is currently a Rails Front End Developer, and part of the organising committee for Rails Girls Sydney. Lee spent many years previously working in animation and as a syndicated cartoonist. He has been a past Vice President for the Australian Cartoonists Association and is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Mark is a former-sysadmin-turned-developer with a lifelong interest in tech, science and maths. He started his Ruby journey in 2008 with Rails. These days, he uses Ruby and a handful of other languages - but Ruby is his staple language, because of both the language itself and the community around it. He is also keen to help the tech industry be a better and more inclusive place, particularly for people with disabilities.
Outside of tech, he watches more TV than is probably healthy, manages to be a halfway-decent home cook, and is keen to do more travelling.
Also Perth Ruby Meetup co-organizer.
Mat is a Ruby Developer based in Sydney. When he's not trying to remember the Rails Migration syntax, you can find him encouraging his plants to grow, playing ultimate frisbee or co-organizing @rorosyd
Late last millenium Sharon completed a computer degree because her mum, in the mid-80s, said, “There is a future in computers.” Mum may have been right but Sharon went for a wander through academia and the arts ending up as a Film Projectionist. When Sharon was replaced by a digital projector, she took irony firmly in hand and decided, in June 2016, to become a Developer.