Jim Weirich has been active in the software development world for over twenty-five years, with experience that ranges from real-time data acquisition for jet engine testing to image processing and web services for the financial industry. Although Jim has experience in C++ and Java/J2EE technologies, his real passion is about delivering business value in a timely and efficient manner, and one of the best ways of doing just that is leveraging the power of Ruby and Rails. Jim is very active in the Ruby community and has contributed to several Ruby projects, including the Rake build system and the RubyGems package software.

Scott Barron was set to swear off computers forever and become a plumber when Rails was released. He immediately found salvation in the warm embrace of Ruby and has never looked back.

Joe is a father, speaker, author and developer. Before helping found EdgeCase, LLC, Joe was a developer with ThoughtWorks and spent much of his time working with large J2EE and .NET systems for Fortune 500 companies. He has spent his career as a developer, project manager, and everything in between. Joe is a passionate member of the open source community. He co-founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group. His passions are Agile Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500 the elegance and power of this incredible language.

Chad currently spends his time as a partner and founder with EdgeCase, LLC in Columbus Ohio. Prior to to EdgeCase he worked in .NET and Java with Fortune 500 companies to help them evaluate and implement open-source technologies.

Chad now works heavily in the Ruby open-source community on projects such as RSpec, RubyFurnance, and others.

Ken is a Technical Project manager / Development Generalist who has successfully delivered software solutions in the Healthcare, State Government, Online Retail, and Tourism industries. He has over 9 years of IT experience, excelling in roles where he can build strong customer relationships by understanding their business needs and by translating those needs into technical solutions. His core skills include: communication, relationship building, leadership, technical and relational problem solving, release management, and automation.

Prior to partnering in the formation of EdgeCase, Ken helped found the Columbus Ruby Brigade a burgeoning group of professionals who are passionate about the Ruby programming language. He began using Ruby over three years ago on the job in a wide range of applications. In addition to being passionate about Ruby, Ken is an agile software development process evangelist.

As a software artisan Nick enjoys the celerity of code crafting via paired-programming and behavior driven development at EdgeCase. He also enjoys conciseness of clean code and biographies.

Ehren is a Ruby Ranger working with EdgeCase. He dove head first into ruby several years ago and has been active in the ruby community as a professional applications programmer and as an open source developer since then. His career has been RubyOnRails centric, and he has a particular talent for asynchronous ECMAScript (aka javascript).

Ehren attended Computer Science classes at Columbus State Community College around the turn of the century. He has a natural aptitude for Object Oriented design, meta-programming and other high level abstract concepts. During his time as an independent contractor he developed a repertoire of *nix and internet related skills as well as an affinity for the Vi text editor.

Jerry can be found spending most of his time in Photoshop or coding the front end of your web applications. He has extensive experience designing and developing e-commerce sites and squashing Internet Explorer bugs.

As a Project Manager, one of Kathey's super strengths are her x-ray vision to see potential pain points before they occur and coordinate the resources to navigate through those hurdles in a single bound.

Underneath her project manager superhero disguise, Kathy has a few surprises. When she isnt fighting the evil forces of scope creep, she is learning to fly an rc helicopter with the dream of someday being able to fly a life-size whirly-bird on her own. All of the coolest superheroes can fly, right?

Honor. Courage. Respect. In life, and more specifically as a developer, Ryan attempts to reflect the virtues of the Samurai Code as much as possible. Like many others of this age, Ryan has found that the elegance of Ruby allows him to channel those and has fully embraced it as his tool of choice rarely looking back at the Perl and PHP of his past.

As the logician at EdgeCase, Adam is responsible for ensuring that logic trumps nonsense at all times. He comes to EdgeCase after fighting The Machine of corporate IT for many years, so he is no stranger to nonsense.

Adam's passions include creating intuitive user interfaces, mastering the Ruby Way, and showing the world that JavaScript can be powerful and elegant. He is also a husband, father, and all-around swell guy.