Introduction

[Mikel Lindsaar]

Hi all,

Good idea for the list. I am a member of another list called Silicon
Beach for startups, and one of the rules is that there are no
lurkers :) When you join that list, you are expected to introduce
yourself in an email with the subject "Introduction".

The intro email should give a brief description of who you are and
what you do.

So, I'll kick it off here if none of you object :)

I am Mikel Lindsaar, I've been working with Rails for close to 5
years, I am @raasdnil on twitter and I wrote the mail gem, did half
the work on the ActionMailer rewrite for Rails 3 and am on the Rails
commit team.

I created RubyX, a application development consultancy in Sydney
Australia and in the USA. We do all sorts of services from full scale
Code Reviews to application support and development. http://rubyx.com/
is where you can find out more about us.

We also made http://stillalive.com/ a full stack production monitoring
service to scratch our own itch and have made it available for your
web application too.

Look forward to helping out as I can on this list :)

Mikel
--
http://rubyx.com/
http://lindsaar.net/
http://stillalive.com/

[Matthew Jacobs]

My name is Matthew Rudy Jacobs

I've been working with Rails since mid 2006 (I guess that's 5 years).

tweet me: @MatthewRudy

github me: http://github.com/matthewrudy

I've worked for a number of startups around the UK

(most notably the SMS answer service KGB.com)

but I currently live in Hong Kong

working with a small consultancy http://thought-sauce.com

I currently spend most of my time working on a Loan Management application,

but have a load of (exciting?) personal projects whizzing around my head.

[Seymores]

Hi guys,

Thanks for having me here.

My fake name is "Seymour Cakes" but ppl at work call me "Ping" -- yes
like the Ping in itunes. :-D

Been hacking around with Ruby since a long time ago. Hacking with
JRuby, MacRuby, Groovy, and now Clojure.

Currently spending lots of time in office. But will hack GAE for fun
and profit, when I am free.

Tweet me: @seymores

[Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin]

(I wasn't sure if Mikel meant a standalone email, or a reply to his
Introduction thread.)

I am Kamal Fariz. I've been working with Rails since end of 2004 when
everyone was new to it. I've contributed patches to Rails and other
open source projects in the ecosystem (rack - yeah!). Funny thing
mentioning about patches to Rails - back in 2007, WWR (anyone still
remember it?) ran the first ever Rails Hackfest. While Josh Peek and
Pratik Naik who placed 1st and 2nd respectively have gone on to have
illustrious careers, I took 3rd place and joined a couple of
Malaysia-based startups that didn't make it. Sad face.

I've been doing independent contracting now close to two years. It's
been a lot of fun and I've been lucky to have engaged great clients
like Envato and ViKi. This year Bitfluent will be growing and to
further that, I'm opening an awesome coworking space in KL called
Fluent Space set to open next month. I'll be happy to host any of you
guys if you find yourself in my neck of the woods.

While engaged at ViKi, I got the chance to work alongside Pivotal
engineers for close to 4 months and I am totally sold on the process.
I'm thinking of inviting guest developers over to pair with my team on
projects, a la Hashrocket's guest rockstar program. Anyone interested?

Looking forward to your introductions!

Regards,
--
Kamal Fariz
http://bitfluent.com
Mobile: +60123099143
Twitter: kamal

[siong1987]

I am Teng Siong Ong. Currently, a student in University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign.

I started a company called GraffitiGeo in the valley in 2009. Then,
later that year, the company is acquired by Loopt. Now, working on a
consultancy gig called FLOChip in Malaysia, we work on our own
internal projects as well like SlurpMAG, 31Storey, etc.

Started working on Rails around 2008. You can follow me on @siong1987
on twitter.

On Apr 25, 10:40 pm, Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin <kamal.fa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Kamal Farizhttp://bitfluent.com
> Mobile: +60123099143
> Twitter: kamal

[Andy Croll]

Hello, I'm the guy with the shades from the stage at #reddot.

I'm Andy, originally a front-end HTML/CSS/Design guy, but picked up
Rails (and Ruby) in 2007, about the time I moved to SG.

In Singapore, worked at wego.com, worked on my own client-facing
projects, then gameplanapp.com with Arun, then viki.com with the
Pivots, and now at Anideo.

We test-drive and selectively pair at Anideo (we will pair more if the
team grows I suspect) and I'm mostly responsible for the design work.
My true expertise is still in the front-end, I'm an absolute arsehole
for semantic HTML and elegant CSS work.

Anideo are in the business of mobile and web stuff (primarily for
iPhone on the mobile side because we all use them and thus that's
where have expertise) but all powered by Rails on the backend.

We have several products brought together when Arun & I joined up with
AJ:
todaysnewsapp.com, tunedinapp.com, kaypo.me, careplace.com,
moviefuapp.com, gameplanapp.com

Our plan is to ship something every 6-8 weeks, and see what people
like. We like to ship. We talk about our experiences on
nakedstartup.com.

I also ran the conference with Jason and Carl. It was fun, but
exhausting.

I blog at andycroll.com and I'm @andycroll on twitter and pretty much
everything else: benefits of a unique surname.

Andy

[Samnang Chhun]

Hi all,

My name is Samnang Chhun. I am from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

I have been doing programming about 6 years, and my experiences are on banking and web classified directory. I was a .NET(MCTS) for almost 4 years, then I have moved to Ruby/Rails for almost the last 3 years. Up to now, I still think that's a good decision from moving .NET to Ruby :-)

I work at Yoolk Inc. as full time job and work as freelancer at night. I have been involving few communities:

• ShareVisionTeam's core member: help building software communities in Cambodia.
• RubyLearning.org's mentor: work in RubyLearning's mentor team to help students learning about Ruby Metaprogramming course.

Recently, I have finished Ruby Mendicant University(#RbMU) core course and became an alumus in Feb.

Blog:    http://wowkhmer.com/

Twitter: @samnangchhun

Thanks,

Samnang

--
H.P (+855)16 701 721

Website:  http://wowkhmer.com
Twitter:    http://twitter.com/samnangchhun

[Jason Ong]

Dude, you succumbed to the g-inbox-spam :P

[Jason Ong]

JasonOng, the dude rocking on stage. \m/

Don't wanna bore you with details. Here's my one liner.

"Grew up a musician, trained as an engineer, worked as a developer, changing local culture and innovating through startups." 

[Yuvan]

Hi all,

My name is Yuvan (@yuvankumar), I'm based in Malaysia, and worked with Rails since 2008. I run a application development and consulting firm with my partner, Adrian Teh (@twittingdog) called Leanis Consulting.

We co-founded Highrise.my, a residential community management tool which is built using Ruby on Rails.

Throughout my working experience, I had the opportunity to dabble with various technologies such as VOIP, data warehousing, business intelligence and of course, web application development. But I must say, working with ruby has been the best experience so far.

It was a really awesome experience to meet so many passionate rubyist at reddotrubyconf, and I hope we can keep the momentum going. I'll do my best to contribute to the ruby community, but most likely I'm gonna end up asking more questions rather than answering for now. Hope you don't mind!

Regards,
Yuvan
Email: yuvan...@leanis.com.my
Twitter: @yuvankumar

[3dd13]

Hi all, 

this is Eddie Lau from Hong Kong.

1)

Rails and Java

before Ruby, was working in Java for 6 years.

was playing with Ruby On Rails for a while and then became full time rails developer for a year.

2)

Application Security

did application security advices, penetration testing and code audit for several teams including Jockey Club gambling site.

3)

Thought Sauce

working in thought sauce now.

doing financial application and hack prototypes for startups.

4)

HKUST

did some sharing to HKUST students.

recently, arranging programming workshop (Agile + Ruby) with their Engineering school.

5)

Prototyping ideas

prototyping some of my ideas using rails too (improve from time to time):

http://greenhk.heroku.com

http://menuweb.heroku.com

http://best-comics.heroku.com

6)

My Goal

develop application to simplify mundane jobs.

earn money from the damn rich selfish Hong Kong people and help the poor citizen.

Cheers,

Eddie

http://github.com/3dd13

http://thought-sauce.com

[Shiaw Uen Tan]

I'm Tan Shiaw Uen, in Singapore, from Malaysia.

Looks like everyone is a Ruby guy, but not here…uhhh…yet?
I basically focus on all the Front-end stuff but not a design guy.

--Uen

[Alex N.]

Hi,

I'm Alex Nguyen. Was born in Vietnam and went to Singapore to get a
Master of Computing degree at NUS. Before that I worked as a
researcher at Institute of Information Technology, Vietnam and
published few papers in Speech and Natural Language Processing.
Nothing much to say if I did not run into Ruby on Rails in 2007.
Finally I found a language I can use everyday. My biggest WIN those
day was converting two Java developers from Singtel to be Ruby
developers :) One of them is Mike, my co-founder at http://vinova.sg/.
We do Web and Mobile app development services and plan to do startups
ourselves.

My interest is building Intelligent, High Performance and Scalable web
services. NoSQL (Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB ..), Analytics, Machine
Learning, Collective Intelligent, Recommendation Systems ... always
make me exited.

After spent 2 years in Vietnam, now I come back to Singapore and hope
that I can contribute more. We have few open source projects at
https://github.com/vinova and looking forward to having experienced
developers to review and enhance.

Alex.

[Simon Robson]

Hi All,

I'm Simon Robson, @shr on twitter. Since 2000 I've been running a
development company in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

I got interested in Ruby and then Rails right before the 1.0 release
of rails in late 2005. Since then, most of our consulting projects
have involved Ruby and/or Rails. At the moment we're developing
various products and services of our own for small/boutique hotels.

It was a fantastic experience to meet so many other passionate and
involved rubyists at #reddot. The ruby community in Thailand is very
small, and I heard similar reports from participants from other
countries. It's my hope that events like this - and the discussion,
buzz and momentum that they generate - will help increase awareness
and spread the word about this beautiful language and technology
locally and throughout the region.

Look forward to helping out where I can on the list. And do drop me a
line if you're in Chiang Mai - it would be a pleasure to show you
around!

Best,
Simon

[John Mettraux]

Hi all,

I'm John Mettraux, I output mostly at

https://twitter.com/jmettraux
https://github.com/jmettraux
http://jmettraux.wordpress.com/

I'm a Swiss but I've been living in Japan since 2006, just one
timezone away from the Red Dot.

I've been using Ruby since 2006 and before that I was shooting myself
in both feet with Java (not the language's fault). I'm the author of
the rufus-scheduler and ruote gems.

I recently started working for http://rightscale.com somewhere between
the clouds.

The RedDot conference was great. I loved the free drugs (coffee, red
bull, ...) Meeting people from all the South East Asia and further was
great, love the energy crossroad. Also the "brand new", "not that big"
feelings and the one-trackedness were excellent.

See you at http://rubykaigi.org/2011/en

John

[Husein Choroomi]

Great idea! :-)

I'm Husein Choroomi. I started programming with C on MS-DOS (that's how old I am! Just kidding, that's because we only had MS-DOS at the time when I started.) and then hacking with many languages and OSes over the last decade. I'm currently working on Ruby and Rails project with ELC Technologies. 

I'm from Iran but had to left the country b/c, well, it was too great for me to stay! :P I've been in Malaysia for last two years and have moved to S'pore about a month ago. 

I'm @hchoroomi on twitter and everywhere else. 

Best,

Husein

http://www.google.com/profiles/hchoroomi

[Kamal Fariz]

Two years in Malaysia? I'm disappointed we did not meet at all during that time.

--
Kamal Fariz

http://bitfluent.com
Mobile: +60123099143
Twitter: kamal

[Husein Choroomi]

Hey Kamal,

That's my bad. Because of my visa situation and traveling all the time, I didn't reach out to the community. I'll be visiting KL regularly tough so let's meet up and chat. :-)

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