Jared Haworth

An active member of the Ruby on Rails community, Jared has contributed to over a dozen major and minor Rails applications, including 6 production Ruby on Rails applications. He’s worked with the National Press Photographers Association, Hearst Business Media, and Set & Service Resources. This Ruby guru has also supplied documentation patches to the core Ruby on Rails development team and been published in both Obie Fernandez’s The Rails Way and Mike Clark’s Advanced Rails Recipes. Initially drawn to Ruby because of its human-readable syntax and robust communities, Jared can be found at Ruby on Rails meetups and participating in programming competitions like the Rails Rumble.

Committed to lifelong learning, Jared takes his analytical mind to hardware hacking and microcontroller programming – with traffic lights. Get him outside, and he’s a National Champion Sport Kite Flyer, competing up and down the Eastern seaboard. Jared studied Digital Arts at Cogswell Polytechnical College and Software Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Scott Johnson

Large, scalable systems are the hallmarks of Scott’s software engineering career. He’s led engineering teams building a variety of different products, from one of the first commercial hypermedia tools to an award-winning corporate Knowledge Management platform. Scott founded Feedster.com, a blog and RSS search engine that he scaled to over 20 million blogs. He’s also been behind Mascot Network’s higher education portal software (think Facebook, but ten years ago). Prior to working with Alloy Code, Scott was VP of Engineering for eduFire, a web 2.0 startup in the education arena, where he standardized on Ruby on Rails, hired the initial engineering team, and led the commitment to test-driven development. A published author, speaker, and trainer, Scott has worked with a variety of companies, including O'Reilly and Sams.

When he’s not immersed in Ruby on Rails, coding startups, cooking, or working on his son's tree house, Scott can be found writing books, defending the rights of the State of Maine Tourism Board, and herding cats. Scott graduated from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.