Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails
Thursday 16th October 6:30pm at Colony, One Silk Street
This month, Ryan Townsend will be sharing stories about how he started, scaled, and liquidated a Rails-based startup that at its peak reached £5M ARR:
Ryan has been building with Rails since before Git existed—originally checking the framework out of SVN back in 2005. After overcoming organisational resistance on adopting Rails, he built and scaled his previous business to calmly handle hundreds of millions in yearly revenue through successive Black Fridays. He’ll run us through his successes and failures before taking a brief look at why he feels Rails is poised for success in the future.
About our speaker
With over 20 years of experience in tech, including 10 years as a full-time CTO, Ryan Townsend is a passionate leader and distinguished software engineer. He publishes video content under ‘Lessons of a CTO’ and runs TWNSND, his Fractional CTO consultancy, though he’s currently on the lookout for Director of Engineering-type roles!
Schedule
- 6:30pm — We gather
- 7:00pm — The talk starts
- 8:00pm — We retire somewhere else for refreshments and further Ruby chat
Registration
If you plan to attend be sure to register so we can plan for numbers.
Thanks to our sponsors
NWRUG is kindly sponsored by Fatsoma who cover the venue hire and the pizza on the night and thoughtbot who buy the first round of drinks afterwards ❤️