Welcome to the ATL, Y'all

Kylie is a Security Engineer at GitHub, where she writes code to detect and solve for classes of security vulnerabilities. She believes in making security tooling first and foremost easy to understand and easy to adopt. Outside of work Kylie enjoys gardening, winemaking, hiking and scuba diving.

Javier Zon is a platform engineer, DBA, and founder of ScaleDB.io. At ClickFunnels, he leads the platform team that manages mission-critical infrastructure, from Aurora MySQL to Kubernetes, serving hundreds of thousands of customers every day. He’s passionate about helping teams balance scale, cost, and reliability.
Beyond tech, Javier is a Black Belt Taekwondo teacher, dad of two, and believer that engineering communities thrive when we mix technical excellence with human connection.

Katya is a Rails developer and product builder passionate about creating tools that support neurodiversity and mental health. She has over 20 years of UX/UI experience and ran her own business delivering SaaS, e-commerce, and community tech solutions before moving full-time into Rails development two years ago. When not coding, she enjoys crocheting, anime, gaming, and spending time with her toddler, Luna.

CTO at Hubstaff, where I’ve spent the last 6 years scaling a high-throughput Rails app backed by PostgreSQL. Author of Lift the Elephant, a pragmatic playbook for scaling Postgres beyond query tuning.

Igor is the CTO and co‑founder of JetRockets, where he’s spent over a decade building innovative solutions for U.S. clients. A Ruby engineer and Docker Captain, he brings a global perspective to tech leadership and enjoys cycling and scuba diving in his free time.

Jeremy is a product-focused Rails developer running HYBRD, a one-person web studio. He has been working with Ruby for the past 15 years. He co-hosts the IndieRails podcast, leads Ruby on Trails (a backpacking trip for Rubyists), and is a former organizer of Blue Ridge Ruby.

Rachael wants to share the joy and beauty of programming through programming games and regular open-source streams on Twitch. She's been a software engineer since 2012, 3x Team Lead, and manages a few small open-source projects.

Thomas has been a Rubyist for 12+ years; and cares deeply about the intersection of art, labor, and the culture of craft. When not working at his dayjob or wrangling his two chaotic dogs, he's refining scalable patterns for real-world problems through Practical Computer.