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Rosa loves learning languages, both for computers and humans, mathematics and theoretical Computer Science. She is based in Madrid, Spain, and has worked as a principal programmer at 37signals since 2017 where she recently was the primary creator of Solid Queue.
Valerie, joins us from Heroku where she writes Ruby around their databases, and will discuss vector data types and how they are used in Large Language models and AI. How do models fall short? And she’ll walk us through a practical example of how to build a similarity search with Ruby.
Julia has been working with Rails for over a decade! As a Senior Software Engineer at Harvest, an almost 20-year-old Rails application, she’s worked on upgrades, completely rewritting some functionality, and dived deep into the darkest corners of the app. She’ll be sharing how they prevent scammers from using our app for their scammy purposes.
Emily is an Engineering Manager at Shopify, improving the Ruby development experience with open source tools like Sorbet and Prism, which she’s going to talk us through. She is also an organizer of WNB.rb, a virtual community for women and non-binary Ruby developers.
Harriet is a senior developer at Zivio. Alongside this, Harriet is part of a small team of technical writers working on the Rails Guides—and other projects—within the Rails Foundation. Harriet helps organise the international WNB.rb group and also worked as a Batch Manager and Lecturer at Le Wagon's coding bootcamp off the side of her desk.
Amanda, now two years into running the Rails Foundation, will be joining us to take questions sourced from the audience.
Brighton Ruby favourite Nadia completes her trilogy of detective stories from when she's not the one-woman team behind The StoryGraph.
Amy joins us from the world of user experience and will explore burnout, purpose and making meaning in an increasingly confusing and calamitous world. What to do when you've attached your sense of self to work, and work suddenly feels meaningless?
We’ll also have a couple of Lightning Talks, pulled from the CFP.
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Code of Conduct
Of course. Brighton Ruby is a harassment-free experience for everyone. Matz is nice, so we are nice. That’s the minimum.
Brighton?
Welcoming, lots of tremendous food of all types, and so much good coffee. I think it’s lovely, but I live here.