Chad Fowler
VP of Engineering, LivingSocial

Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world’s largest companies and most admired software developers. Chad is VP of Engineering at LivingSocial. He is co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf and author or co-author of a number of popular software books, including “The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development“.

Recent comments

posted about 3 years ago:
Thanks for the suggestions. I love the lightning talks too. Maybe next year we'll expand. We've tried doing more sessions before and the later days can get kinda anemic. I'm thinking a longer sessi...
posted about 3 years ago:
I especially enjoyed the SQLite part. Starting an experiment based on it RIGHT NOW.
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