The Latin America
Rails Conference

Aaron is part of the Rails core team, the Ruby core team, and is a Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, playing with cats and writing peculiar software.

Adrian is a product-driven engineer, author of Avo for Rails, and co-organizer of the Friendly.rb conference and the Friendly.show podcast.

Alan Ridlehoover is a passionate software engineer who loves Ruby. He is an empathetic leader at Cisco Meraki, a fallible human being, a great photographer and a rusty drummer.

Alexandre specializes in turning complex problems into elegant solutions. He has contributed to collaborative projects involving professionals from the Americas, Europe, Oceania and Asia.

Amanda is the executive director of the Rails Foundation, which supports the Rails community through improvements in documentation, education, marketing and events. She is American and lives in Amsterdam.

FestaLab's "majestic monolith" was created in 2018 running Rails 5.1 and currently runs Rails Edge. The company has contributed a few things back to Rails (including "vips by default" in Rails 7).

Bruno Ghisi is co-founder and VP of Product and Engineering at RD Station. Master's in Computer Science from UFSC. Elected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2016, he is also an investor and mentor.

Rails Foundation board member, building software with Rails since 2006. Brazilian, he moved to the US at 13. Part of the founding team at Doximity since 2010.

A Ruby on Rails pioneer since its earliest versions and a CTO who guided his company from the very beginning, using Rails, all the way to a successful initial public offering (IPO).

Dan Phillips is a Senior Engineer at Loophole Labs, where one of his main areas of focus is WebAssembly on the server. He is also the founder and organizer of the WebAssembly Chicago group.

A Campus Code alumnus, dev at iugu, passionate about bicycles, mechanical keyboards and a good arduino/raspberry pi hack.

Eileen helps lead the effort to improve and maintain the Rails framework and the Ruby language at Shopify. Focused on ensuring stability and extensibility for developers and businesses.

Senior Software Engineer with more than a dozen years of experience working with Ruby, Rails and other technologies. Bay Area transplant, originally from Asunción, Paraguay.

John is part of the Rails Core team, the Ruby committers team, and is a Staff Engineer on the Ruby Architecture team at GitHub. He loves making Ruby, Rails and gems faster.

A Ruby developer since 2014, he has worked on projects in Brazil, Europe and North America. Passionate about Ruby on Rails, automated testing, CLIs and Vim.

Lázaro Nixon is a senior developer currently working for a Colombian company, passionate about the "Rails way". In his spare time he enjoys experimenting and creating libraries.

Matheus is a 🇧🇷 Senior Developer working at thoughtbot. He is passionate about building games and programming languages.

Mayra is from Lima, Peru. Passionate about Ruby, open-source software and diversity and inclusion in tech. Tech lead at WNBrb.

I believe technology transforms human life for the better, and being part of that is essential to me.

Self-proclaimed Rails Sheriff, member of the Rails core team. Working to define the future of Ruby on Rails at Shopify.

Creator of Oh My Zsh, host of the Maintainable Software podcast and runs Planet Argon, a Ruby on Rails consultancy.

CTO at CloudWalk Inc and 15 years of Ruby experience.

Wagner is a Ruby developer and entrepreneur. He was CTO and co-founder of fintech Vindi, and in 2022 founded Glass Data, a Rubyist startup specialized in observability and security for payments.

Weldys is from São Luís, a software engineer who has worked with Rails since 2006 but took a break to be a manager. Tired of so many meetings, he went back to being a developer.