My Ruby Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Mindaugas Mozūras This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Mindaugas Mozūras. Mindaugas is from Lithuania and currently works at Vinted. He started about 5 ½ years ago as a software developer writing Ruby and now he the head of engineering at Vinted. He also has written an open source project called Pronto. He first got into programming when he was mesmerized by his father’s work computer and always grew up playing games that had to do with building things. They also touch on how he got into Ruby, what made him fall in love it, how he got his first Ruby job, and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Mindaugas introPronto open source projectAlways focused on the best way to solve problemsCommunication is keyHow did you first get into programming?His father’s computer at work got him into computersClass in school that taught PascalHow have things changed since you first started?Didn’t see programming as a career at firstProgramming didn’t seem