Aaron Patterson

My talent is inspiring people. I like to do that by writing fun and interesting programs, and sharing them with others for the express purposes of teaching. I want everyone I interact with to leave better than they came, and hopefully with a new skill they can use at home. I am passionate about helping other people in my field, and I think the most effective way for me to impact the most developers is by working on Open Source software. I choose to work on Ruby and Rails because improving Rails provides a large impact on the developer community. I believe I have the skills and experience to be one of the most effective framework and language developers. I am a popular public speaker. I have spoken about Ruby and Rails at over 50 conferences world-wide in the past 5 years, and I will continue to speak at more conferences. I have delivered a keynote at RailsConf (the world wide conference for Ruby on Rails) each year for the past 4 years. Other keynotes include RubyConf Brazil 2011, RubyKaigi Tokyo in 2012, RubyConf India 2013, RedDot RubyConf in Singapore 2014, among many others. I am known for my presentation style and relevant technical content. I wish to work somewhere that will support me both as a public speaker and as an open source developer. I want to work for a company that is interested in improving developer productivity and decreasing technical debt, and where improving the developer community is valued.