Panel: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Amit Choudhary
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Amit Choudhary. Amit was previously on Ruby Rogues in January 2018 on episode 345 discussing app failures. Amit is a software developer at Big Binary, where he is a full-stack Ruby developer. He first got into programming when he learned C for a computer engineering course. They talk about how he got into Ruby, what he has done with Ruby, what the Ruby community is like in India, and what he is working on now.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Ruby Rogues Episode 345
Amit intro
Currently works at Big Binary
Family language is Ruby
Interested in front-end languages
How did you first get into programming?
From Delhi, India
First language was C
Loved the logic behind how a piece of code works
How did you get into Ruby?
Vinsol
What have you done with Ruby?
Working with Ruby for the last four years
Using Rails to create APIs
eCommerce platforms
His switch to working in the back-end
Meta-programming
Comparing languages to Ruby
What is the Ruby community like in India?
Start-up culture in India
RubyConf India
What are you working on now?
And much, much more!
Links:
Ruby Rogues Episode 345
Big Binary
Ruby
Vinsol
Rails
RubyConf India
Selenium
Amit’s GitHub
Amit on Big Binary Blog
@amit_1992
Sponsors:
FreshBooks
Digital Ocean
Picks:
Charles
DevChat.tv/YouTube
Ruby Rants coming soon on DevChat.tv/YouTube
Facebook Marketplace
DeLorean Motor Company
Amit
Ruby 2.6