Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D. is a seasoned software professional with 17 years of experience, co-founder of 3 companies, and has been working on consumer web applications in Ruby-on-Rails since 2006. His recent client engagements include www.netpop.com, www.mightyverse.com, www.moviemozo.com, www.fansnap.com and www.edufire.com, advising on technology and infrastructure options; building teams; championing viable, and long-term sustainable software development practices; establishing TDD/BDD (test-driven development) cultures, introducing Agile processes and tools; focusing on best practices, performance and scalability to high traffic demands; gathering in-process analytics and evolving the application accordingly.

Wolfram puts emphasis on overall architecture, automated test coverage, user experience, system performance, maintainability & expandability, team motivation, customer value and business intelligence.

His Ruby-on-Rails experience started in 2006 with his discovery of the Rails community and he immediately fell in love with the framework, its elegance and the enthusiasm of the people behind it. Also in 2006, he was hired as the 2nd in-house senior engineer at Real Girls Media, Inc. to develop the first large-scale commercial content management system in Rails for the company's www.divinecaroline.com publishing property. As part of his engagement at Real Girls Media, Inc. he worked at Pivotal Labs, San Francisco for several months and was instrumental in taking development in-house, growing the team and perpetuating the Agile, results-oriented culture imparted by Pivotal Labs.

Prior to 2006, Wolfram was a staff engineer in charge of new feature development for the high-end server line at EFI, Inc. Leading a small team of C++ developers he was focusing on how to develop higher quality software in a way that is more robust to change and without burning out the team. Intuitively he discovered many of the Agile practices. In 2005 the company sent him to become trained as Scrum Master.

Between 1994 and 2000, Wolfram pursued a Ph.D. degree in computational theoretical physics at the University of Oregon. In 1999 he won a student scholarship at Advanced Computing Lab at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where he worked on highly scalable massively parallel computational algorithms in object-oriented C++ design and expression templates.

Wolfram speaks English, German, French and Spanish and currently lives in San Francisco and is a founding partner of RubyFocus.

Eric Miskey is a talent acquisition and staffing professional with over 12 years of experience. He is the President and owner of One-to-One Staffing, Inc., which he founded in 1999. He has helped grow many early, pioneer internet software companies with a wide variety of talent. The approach has always been to understand the product/service, culture, mission, and future of the organization so the right talent can be assimilated into a quickly productive environment. Focus has always been on identifying mutual fit and common vision - which is the basis for the "One-to-One Principle".

Since 2005, Eric has been a strong proponent of open source technology and the recruitment of technology professionals focused on Ruby-on-Rails, as well as LAMP. He has built strong relationships with both small, thriving start-ups as well as large, marquis corporations - including CBS Interactive and IAC Search & Media. He believes Ruby-on-Rails (and open source in general) will power the internet of the future - utilizing the inherent collaboration, smart methodologies learned in the past and best practices (including TDD/BDD and Agile programming).

In 1996, Eric had a meeting with a young, dynamic software start-up named BroadVision, founded by Dr. Pehong Chen. At that time, they were just under 50 people working dutifully in a small Los Altos building. Over the next five years, Eric utilized his breadth and depth approach to recruiting and placed over 130 people into the organization nationwide. He understood the product and service offering, as well as the company culture and work environment - this inherent knowledge was the cornerstone of his success. BroadVision grew to over 2,300 people in this time period and had two 3-for-1 stock splits in less than 6 months - a historical feat for the Nasdaq market.

In the same year, Eric sought out another young, promising company that would shape the future of the internet - RSA Data Security. The approach was to provide both in-house consulting as well as talent assessment, management and acquisition. After completing a network/security audit and assessment, the consulting team Eric led installed the first firewall RSA Data Security ever had. Over the next several years, 40+ architects, engineers, marketing professionals, and salespeople/SE's were brought into the organization directly by Eric. Many of these individuals have gone on to leadership/visionary positions later in their career.