The Relevance Team

	Justin Gehtland President Justin Gehtland co-founded Relevance in 2003 with Stuart Halloway. He’s been a programmer, author, and speaker since 1994. His 2005 book, “Better, Faster, Lighter Java” won the Jolt Award for Technical Writing, and he has authored 8 technical books in all. He is currently focused on expanding Relevance’s Ruby practice and building the best team of agile developers in the known universe.
	Stuart Halloway CEO Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a co-founder of Relevance, Inc. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Component Development for the Java Platform and Rails for Java Developers. Stuart regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums, the Pragmatic Studio, RubyConf, and RailsConf.
	Muness Alrubaie Partner Muness brings 11 years of experience developing software in a variety of domains using the right tools for the job at hand. Muness builds resilient systems that can adapt to changing business needs. To that end he has been a proponent of agile practices, Ruby on Rails, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and tagging.
	Jason Rudolph Partner Jason Rudolph has more than 10 years of experience in developing software solutions for domestic and international clients of all sizes, including start-ups, Dow 30 companies, and government organizations. Jason is the author of the book, Getting Started with Grails, and speaks frequently at software conferences and user groups. Jason holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
	Venkat Subramaniam Chief Learning Officer Venkat is known for his passion, enthusiasm, and ability to impart complex concepts using clear analogies and examples. Venkat co-wrote the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer and wrote .NET Gotchas. Venkat is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and user groups. He has over 15 years experience developing software applications and teaching software development practices to thousands of software developers in US, Canada, and Europe.
	Glenn Vanderburg Chief Scientist Glenn brings more than 20 years of experience developing software across a wide range of domains, and using a variety of tools and technologies. Glenn is always searching for ways to improve the state of software development, and was an early adopter and proponent of Ruby, Rails, and agile practices.
	Aaron Bedra Principal Aaron’s diverse background in technology makes him a true technological jack of all trades. Aaron’s passion for security and solving deeply technical problems drives his current focus in enterprise systems integration using Clojure and JRuby. Aaron is the author of the Rails Security Audit Peepcode book. He is the current maintainer of rcov, the Ruby code coverage analysis tool, and is a contributor to many open source projects including Compojure, Ruby on Rails, Tarantula, and Safe ERB. You can also find Aaron speaking on the No Fluff, Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour.
	Don Mullen Principal Don has more than 20 years in software development and project management. His experience includes working as Chief Programmer for the Duke University Computer Assisted Language Learning project, starting and running a company that developed educational and entertainment software for the likes of National Geographic and Simon & Schuster, and leading the development of core technologies at TIBCO Software, Inc. Don enjoys learning about and fine-tuning the processes involved in bringing bright motivated individuals together to transform product vision to reality.
	Rob Sanheim Principal Rob Sanheim is a software developer with over eight years programming experience and over fifteen years of IT experience in many domains. He loves Ruby, timeless design, and simple software that gets stuff done. Rob is a believer and practitioner of common-sense agility, open source, and software that is fun to create and fun to use.
	Scott Davis Instructor Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project). Scott’s books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss at Work.
	Chad Humphries Programmer Chad has spent the last 10 years roaming the earth building web applications for companies large and small. During his journeys he has contributed regularly to open source in .NET and Ruby. He was last seen championing the causes of Behaviour Driven Development and proper use of the Queen’s English.
	Larry Karnowski Programmer Larry Karnowski has been designing and developing software applications—mostly network management tools—for almost fifteen years. His biggest passion is solving problems for real people—creating user interfaces that let users kick ass. In addition to hard technical skills like Ruby, Java, etc., he brings experience in usability, product design, and uncovering what users really need.