Rob loves programming languages and Ruby is the first language he found that loved him back. While finishing his CS degree, Rob snuck Ruby into the software validation and tools group of a Johnson and Johnson company. He learned Rails while riding back and forth on a train between his home in San Diego, CA and work in Irvine, CA. He joined Mingle LLC. in early 2006 and has been working professionally with Rails ever since. In the fall of 2007, he struck out on his own, founded Notch8 and knows that freelancing really suites him. He enjoyed the heck out of speaking at RailsConf07, even though he lost his voice the day of his talk. Recently he's been busy helping clients with projects varying from mobile location services to a biotech online marketplace. He is regularly found at SDRuby meetings and anywhere else he can talk tech and programming.

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Projects

bitly_pubsub_writerWrite a bitly pubsub feed
netsuite_clientforked from http://blog.zolou.com/2010/07/netsuite-ruby-client/
mustardAs Runner for SauceRC
tunnelrReverse SSH Tunnels for Rails Apps
notch8The Notch8 site
tanning_bed_solrSolr Dist Example for running with Tanning Bed
lesstrackPush punch records to lesstimespent.com
ruby-1-9-or-bustHomepage for the Ruby 1.9 or Bust Project
tannins-merb-fixtureTest fixture for tannins and merb
tannins-rails-fixtureA Rails project for testing tannins based deploys
notch8.github.comnotch8.github.com
ical_punchA app that converts between icalendar files and punch.yml files
tanning_bedTanning Bed is a generic Solr interface for models, because models are too sexy to get the their tans from the sun directly ;-)
tanninsA set of Gentoo linux templates for setting up the server and the first deploy of your Ruby app

Rob Kaufman

Using Ruby since March 2003
Lives in Rancho Penasquitos