Biography:

Andrea O. K. Wright specializes in Ruby technology for Chariot Solutions, a consulting firm based in Fort Washington, PA. A 15-year IT industry veteran, she has presented about advanced classloading concepts and annotation processing at JavaOne and topics ranging from developing games in Ruby to thread safety at national and regional Ruby conferences including RubyConf and RailsConf. She enjoyed introducing elementary school age children to Ruby String manipulation at CodeMash 2009 with her "Playing with Strings" session. She has also been the Ruby content chair for the Philly Emerging Tech Conference.