David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder & CTO at Basecamp, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, frequent podcast guest, and family man. Basecamp is the saner, organized way to manage projects and communicate company-wide. David runs the company with his business partner, Jason Fried, and a lovely team of some fifty programmers, designers, supporters, and sysops. Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and beautiful code. Hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world have built amazing applications using Rails including companies such as Github, Square, Airbnb, Kickstarter and Goodreads. It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work, his latest book co-authored with Jason Fried, is about how to run a calm company by forgoing the lure of excessive growth and making your time count for more.
