Portland

October 11, 2025

In Portland, rain-soaked streets weave through murals and food carts, where centuries-old forests edge up against a city humming with bikes, indie bookstores, and weekend farmers’ markets. Here, innovators, adventurers, and makers from St. Johns to Sellwood, and from Vancouver to Hood River, gather to exchange bold ideas beneath the ever-present gaze of Mt. Hood. This is an invitation to immerse yourself in Portland’s spirit of sustainability, DIY ingenuity, and offbeat charm—forming connections that are as authentic and unexpected as the city itself.

XO Ruby Portland is a single-day, single-track conference designed to draw folks in from the city and the region. An approachable $100 ticket price coupled with no need for a hotel or airfare means you can connect with your community without breaking the bank.

Sidekiq

Sidekiq is the leading background job processor for Ruby applications, trusted by developers to handle millions of tasks efficiently and reliably. Used by the Ruby community, Sidekiq integrates seamlessly with Rails, delivering fast, scalable performance for modern apps that require robust background job management and real-time processing.

Registration / Set up

9:00 - 9:15a

Welcome

9:15 - 9:45a

Fish Bowl Game

9:45 - 10:15a

TBA

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10:15 - 10:45a

Break

10:45 - 11:15a

TBA

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11:45 - 1:30p

Lunch

2:15 - 2:45p

Break

3:45 - 4:15p

Break

4:15 - 4:45p

TBA

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4:45 - 5:00p

Closing

Schedule

Joe Masilotti

Joe is on a mission to make mobile app development easier for Rails developers. He’s been working with Hotwire Native since 2016, is a maintainer of the library, and the author of “Hotwire Native for Rails Developers”.

Kayla Reoppelle

Kayla is a Lead Software Engineer at New Relic and a maintainer for the OpenTelemetry Ruby project. She's currently on a mission to bring stability to OpenTelemetry's logs and metrics signals for the Ruby project.

Renée Hendricksen

Renée is a Staff Software Engineer at GitLab whose career has bounced back and forth between IC roles and Engineering leadership. For the last 5 years, she has been focusing on individual contributor work while training some very demanding 90 billion node neural networks at home! She has been working with Ruby since 2009, and brings a unique perspective from having seen codebases from both the C-suite and the git trenches.

Sam Livingston-Gray

Sam wrote his first Rails app in 2006, and is somehow still writing them? These days, he spends his time co-parenting a very cool human, working as a Staff Engineer for Valimail, and making sawdust. Ask him about TDD, refactoring, or Weighted Companion Cubes – yes, plural.

Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis has been using Ruby since 2000 and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade, the ass-kickingest ruby brigade (per-capita). His background includes QA, automation, language and tool development, object databases, and smalltalk. In ruby/rails, he has worked on developer productivity, profiling and optimization, and developer tools such as minitest, ruby_parser, ruby2ruby, hoe, RubyInline, and much more..