About
Mark Bates has been developing web applications of one kind or another since 1996. He has spent an ungodly amount of time programming Java, but thankfully he discovered Ruby in late 2005, and life has been much nicer since.
Since discovering Ruby Mark has become a prominent member of the community. He has developed various open source projects such as Configatron, Cachetastic, Genosaurus, and the Mack Framework. The Mack Framework brought Mark to the forefront of distributed programming in the Ruby community as Mack was a web framework designed from the ground up to aid in the development of distributed applications.
Mark has taught classes on both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has spoken at several Ruby gatherings, including 2008’s RubyConf where Mark spoke about building distributed applications.
In 2009 Mark authored the book “Distributed Programming with Ruby” for Addison-Wesley.
Mark has an honors degree in Music from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He still likes to rock out on the weekends, but set times are now 10PM and not 2AM.
He lives just outside of Boston with his wife Rachel and their sons Dylan and Leo.
Mark can be found at http://www.markbates.com and http://github.com/markbates.
