Speaking

I speak at conferences on Ruby, pattern matching, ASTs, AI-assisted engineering, autism in tech, and the craft of illustrated storytelling. Interested in having me speak? Get in touch.

Upcoming

We Who Remember Magic

2026 RubyConf 2026

Keynotes

We Who Remember Magic

2025 Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 · Boulder, CO

Red in Fantasyland

2024 RubyConf 2024 · Chicago, IL

Conference Talks

Rails Expertise, Distilled: AI Agents That Get Your Monolith

2025 San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025

Refactoring with ASTs and Pattern Matching

2024 RubyKaigi 2024 · Okinawa, Japan

Teaching Capybara Testing - An Illustrated Adventure

2023 RailsConf 2023 · Atlanta, GA

The Night Before Code Freeze

2023 RubyConf 2023 · Lightning Talk

Behind the Lemurs - Creating an Illustrated Talk

2022 RailsConf 2022 · Portland, OR

Delightfully Fashionable Lemurs in Decorating Ruby

2021 RubyConf 2021 · Denver, CO

Playing a Hand with Ruby Pattern Matching

2021 rubyday 2021 · Italy

Tales of the Autistic Developer: The Expert

2020 RubyConf 2020

Tales From The Ruby Grimoire

2020 RubyConf AU 2020 · Melbourne, Australia

Tales of the Ruby Grimoire

2019 RubyConf 2019 · Nashville, TN

The Action Cable Symphony - An Illustrated Musical Adventure

2019 RailsConf 2019 · Minneapolis, MN

Reducing Enumerable - An Illustrated Adventure

2018 RubyConf 2018 · Los Angeles, CA

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