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Ryan Schenk
Application Architect, Marine Biological Laboratory

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I develop software at the MBL-WHOI (Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Library, trying to find the intersection between biodiversity and aging research. We find taxonomic names, and aging-related data for every species possible. It’s my job to figure out how to store, process, display, and visualize this data, which is currently done (mostly) with Rails.

When not in front of a computer, I enjoy kiteboarding, surfing, sailing, bicycle trials, mountain biking, and sewing.

Recent comments

It's Not Always Sunny In the Clouds: Lessons Learned
posted about 4 years ago:
Mike, I enjoyed your energetic and engaging presenting style
Building a Mini-Google: High-Performance Computing in Ruby
posted about 4 years ago:
This was very interesting, although I was hoping for a few more implementation details regarding "high-performance computing"
In Praise of Non-Fixtured Data
posted about 4 years ago:
A faster paced presentation would have been better
Don't Mock Yourself Out
posted about 4 years ago:
David, unfortunately I think you fell into the common RailsConf mistake -- spending far too long covering remedial information for the 20% unfamiliar with mocking, and then being forced to speed th...

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