One great set of Ruby experts to watch for contributions to language, tooling, and community.
| Name | GitHub | Notable Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Jemma Issroff | JemmaIssroff | Garbage collector improvements |
| Dave Kimura | kobaltz | Drifting Ruby screencasts |
| Aaron Patterson | tenderlove | Nokogiri, Rails core patches |
| Richard Schneeman | schneems | Sprockets, CodeTriage |
| David Heinemeier Hansson | dhh | Created Ruby on Rails |
| José Valim | josevalim | Devise, Elixir creator |
| Koichi Sasada | ko1 | YARV VM, Ractor concurrency |
| Tobias Lütke | tobi | Liquid, Shopify engineering |
| Jeremy Evans | jeremyevans | Sequel, Roda |
| Konstantin Haase | rkh | Sinatra, Travis CI co-founder |
| Dmytro Zaporozhets | Dmitriy Zaporozhets | Created GitLab |
| Sarah Mei | sarahmei | RailsBridge founder |
| Eileen Uchitelle | eileencodes | Rails & Ruby core teams |
| Pat Shaughnessy | patshaughnessy | Ruby internals author |
| Nobuyoshi Nakada | nobu | MRI contributions |
| Bozhidar Batsov | bbatsov | RuboCop linter |
| Nate Berkopec | nateberkopec | Rails performance guide |
| Coraline Ada Ehmke | CoralineAda | Contributor Covenant |
| Yehuda Katz | wycats | Bundler, Merb merger |
| Chris Oliver | excid3 | GoRails creator |
| Mike Perham | mperham | Sidekiq author |
| Avdi Grimm | avdi | RubyTapas screencasts |
| Hiroshi Shibata | hsbt | Bundler & RubyGems principal |
| Sam Saffron | SamSaffron | Discourse project founder |
This table highlights key Ruby and Rails contributors, their GitHub profiles, and their standout contributions. You can find the full list, along with links to their other social media profiles and additional details, here: https://echoglobal.tech/technologies/ruby/