Max VelDink

I'm a staff software engineer who has created full-stack web applications for more than a decade. My focus is on combining the best of object-oriented and functional philosophies while meditating on novel architecture approaches, especially for Ruby applications.

Teaching the next generation of Rubyists is incredibly important to me, and I'm currently thinking through modern Ruby courses to replace the Ruby boot camps that have gone out of favor.

Refactoring: The ASMR of Programming Talks

Ruby has a long history of incredible refactoring talks (shout out to Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen!), providing "aha" moments for developers and being oh-so-satisfying at the same time. In that vein, let's take an opportunity to refactor some code and release some serotonin.