Becker is a software engineer with expertise in the Ruby ecosystem. Passionate about building products people love from the ground up, he can usually be found working with a small team at a local start-up doing what he does best: writing code and making espresso! Always open to learning new tools and technologies, Becker has become particularly enamored with CoffeeScript based on its intuitive and clean structure and ease of use. In his mind, CoffeeScript and Ruby are a perfect pairing for happy development! Becker lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

He has also a worked on CoffeeScript Application Development, Packt Publishing (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/coffeescript-application-development).

Paul Jensen is the founder of Anephenix. He is also the lead developer of the SocketStream web framework and the creator of Dashku, a real-time dashboard application.

Alexey Smirnov works as a software engineer in a cloud computing start-up company, iRONYUN. He is broadly interested in web frameworks as well as iOS application development. In his spare time, he builds websites for nonprofit organizations. Alexey got his master's degree in computer science from Stony Brook University, USA.