Edinburgh

Paul is a coach and coder with over ten years of experience of Agile/XP. He is an active member of the Ruby and Agile communities, and co-organiser of the Scottish Ruby Conference. He has spoken at many conferences and events; these include RubyConf, The Naked Agilist, and guest lectures at Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh Napier Universities.

In a dev shop far far away, Peter was introduced to Extreme Programming. Since that day he has travelled far and wide spreading the good word to help companies build applications better. By day Peter is a Software Artisan at Neo, where he introduces Lean Startup and Agile concepts to clients and writes well tested Ruby code with his latest pairing buddy. By night he is incredibly active in the community organising ScotlandJS and the Scottish Ruby User Group. Outside of techno-geekery you can find Peter on his mountain bike, walking the dogs or wrestling ogres.

Alan is a developer with a deep love, some would say unnaturally so, for the Ruby language. He has developed software in Ruby, Java and Delphi for international oil companies, social networking sites and even New York fashion houses (despite appearing to get dressed in the middle of a hedge). Hailing from the frozen north, Alan is used to extended periods without sunlight, making him well suited to life as a codemonger. He has worn a mullet for longer than was decent, almost flown a helicopter into a pylon and was once bitten in the eye by a sandfly. It was as painful as it sounds. He lives in Scotland with his long-suffering wife, their gorgeous little girl and a West Highland Terrier called Ruby (but not after the language, honest).