TechLife LinkedIn Profile - Joe O'Brien - The Open source (Ruby) evangelist

co-founder, EdgeCase, LLC (theedgecase.com)

Current

• Co-Founder at EdgeCase

Past

• Developer at ThoughtWorks
• Consultant at SARK, Inc
• Project Manager at Shore to Shore

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Columbus Ruby Brigade

Joe is a father, speaker, author and developer. Before helping found EdgeCase, LLC, Joe was a developer with ThoughtWorks and spent much of his time working with large J2EE and .NET systems for Fortune 500 companies. He has spent his career as a developer, project manager, and everything in between. Joe is a passionate member of the open source community. He co-founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group. His passions are Agile Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500 the elegance and power of this incredible language.

Joe O'Brien’s Specialties:

Languages: Ruby, Rails, Java (including J2EE/JEE), .NET and many, many more.Process: Extreme Programming, Scrum, Agile