Matt Pelletier first discovered Ruby (and Rails) in early 2005. He is the founder of the NYC Ruby on Rails group, which he merged with Francis Hwang’s NYC Ruby group to form NYC.rb.
Matt is a partner at EastMedia, a NYC-based software, consulting and business development shop. EastMedia hosted the NYC.rb meetings until they grew too large and had to be moved to a larger space.
In conjunction with technology partner VeriSign, EastMedia provided commercial sponsorship of Mongrel for the Apache Heraldry project, where it serves as a key component of the first full-stack implementation of OpenID. More information about OpenID can be found at EastMedia’s Identity Wiki
Matt is an author, instructor and frequent speaker on Ruby, Rails, OpenID and related subjects. He has presented at RailsConf 2006, BarcampNYC, at the Federal Reserve, and Google Tech Talk series.
Matt is the co-author of the official Mongrel book along with Zed Shaw?. The book was released by Addison Wesley in October 2006 through the Digital Shortcuts series.