Cody Fauser is currently CTO of Ottawa based Shopify, the best e-commerce solution on the web. He is responsible for ensuring that Shopify is a robust, world-class platform for over 5,000 online businesses.

Cody is the lead author of Rails in a Nutshell, and contributed to Advanced Rails Recipes. He also wrote RJS Templates for Rails and the PeepCode ActiveMerchant PDF. Cody enjoys participating in Open Source projects and is the sole maintainer of ActiveMerchant, the most popular payment processing library for Ruby.

Cody currently lives in Buenos Aires with his wife Maria and son Sim n. You can check out his blog at http://www.codyfauser.com and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/codyfauser.

James MacAulay has been working with Ruby and Rails since 2006 and has authored and contributed to numerous open source projects along the way. Most of that time has been spent working at Shopify, where he continues to help create better experiences for online merchants and their customers. In addition to his work in software development, James has studied fields as diverse as cognitive science and traditional hand-drawn animation. He currently resides in Ottawa, Canada.

John Guenin has been developing software professionally in one form or another for the past 10 years. During the last four, he's cultivated a deep love of Ruby and Rails. He's also spent his fair share of time working with C, C++, .Net/C#, Cocoa/Objective-C, SQL, and Javascript--which have inspired a wide range of emotions in their own right. In early 2008 he gave up his fancy "Senior Ruby/Rails Developer" title at a financial company to explore life as a freelancer, which has kept him inspired with a wide range of projects.

When not playing with computers, John enjoys geeking out with cognitive science, especially in the areas of attention and learning.

After finding a summer job working at a genomic research centre where he helped fight cancer with Ruby, and taught it during lunch presentations to audiences of researchers, Edward Ocampo-Gooding realized that teaching was the most fun part.

Knowing that getting to know some of his favourite industry leaders was integral to his teaching/programming future, as Director of Presentations for CUSEC, he invited them as speakers.

While graduating, he eked out an apprenticeship where he learned the ropes of self-employed programming, where he experienced working in a TechCrunch-lauded startup, a gig at the LA Times, and more importantly, other startups where he found friends of the highest calibre with whom he continues to work with today.

Edward lives in Ottawa where he dreams about user experience design, typography, and fixies. He skates to work at Shopify.