Members

Muness Alrubaie

Muness is an IT consultant, filling development, management, mentoring and architural needs. He has 10 years of experience in software development and teaching computer science. His passions include studying evolution and applying ideas from that field to software development.

Muness is an avid believer that the distinctions between users and developers on one hand and data, metadata and code on the other are tenuous. He strives to build resilient systems, that can adapt to changing business needs. To that end he embraces Agile methodologies and postmodern programming.

Some people call him tag-boy.

Ken Barker

Ken is a partner with EdgeCase, a software development consultancy focused on Ruby and Rails. Many of the stories of "Chad" have been created or propagated by Ken.

Ken is currently pretty darn excited about doing just enough project management and business development to leave time for pairing on development projects with Joe, Chad, and the guys.

Chad Humphries

All we know of Chad has been handed down through history as stories, cave paintings, and interpretive dance routines.

You can currently find him working at EdgeCase and writing at SpicyCode.

Jason Long

Jason is the founder of the small web development firm Black Ant Media in Columbus. With a computer science degree from Ohio State and nearly 10 years of software development and management experience, his background is primarily technical. He enjoys the analytical challenges of software development, but he is also deeply interested in visual design, aesthetics, and the user experience. These skills attracted him to web development where he continues to look for exciting projects to participate in. Jason has worked with enough other web development languages and frameworks to realize how incredibly powerful Ruby on Rails is.

Joe O'Brien

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. Joe is currently working on a book for the Pragmatic Programmers on building DSL's with Ruby.

Rob Stevenson

Rob Stevenson has been on a crusade to find coder happiness for over 15 years. His passion for computer graphics at BGSU eventually led Rob to the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. While having a blast playing with million dollar Virtual Reality systems, Rob discovered Java near the end of 1996. While early Java was excitingly painful, Rob instantly fell in love with the lack of memory leaks usually found in his C++ code. Since then he has explored various dynamic languages until finding Ruby in 2004. Rob co-founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade in 2005 and is a frequent interviewer on the Ruby on Rails Podcast. Rob is a Senior Partner with Integrallis.