The Clouds

Isometric pixel-art map of San Francisco Typesense Typesense
We search this whole city in milliseconds. Typos welcome.
WorkOS WorkOS
Every door in this city opens with single sign-on.
Fin Fin
Our AI agent handles the city's support tickets. Even the seagulls.
Laravel Cloud Laravel Cloud
Every building here went up with one deploy.
AppSignal AppSignal
Monitoring every block of this town. All dashboards green.
Persona Persona
Everybody on this pier is who they say they are.
Avo Avo
The whole city's back office is one admin panel.
Beyond Finance Beyond Finance
Helping this town break free of debt, block by block.
SumIt SumIt
Every coin on this map? Accounted for.
TRMNL TRMNL
The city's tides, trains and standups, on one e-ink screen.
Order.co Order.co
Every plank on this pier arrived on one purchase order.
Chatwoot Chatwoot
Every conversation on this pier lands in one open-source inbox.
Chime Chime
Nobody on this waterfront pays a fee to bank.
FastRuby.io FastRuby.io
Every building on this block is on the latest Rails.
Buildkite Buildkite
Flying high over Ocean Beach. Your tests run in parallel below.
CodeRabbit CodeRabbit
Every pull request in this city gets reviewed before dinner.
bison Legacy? I prefer battle-tested. bison Pair grazing. Like pair programming, but greener. sea-lion This dock is mine now. Non-blocking, though. sea-lion Scoot over. This plank is taken. sea-lion Sunbathing is a lifestyle. whale I only surface for major releases. pelican Formation lead. Zero merge conflicts. pelican I review fish. Approve, approve, approve. pelican Squad's over there. I'm remote. seagull Drop a churro. I dare you. parrot Telegraph Hill rent: one cracker. parrot Wild parrot of Telegraph Hill, doing a flyby. martian Check Agents on Rails: the first benchmark report martian Peace, love, and open source. martian Series A? We prefer Series Mars. martian Great reception up here. Home says hi. martian Karl the Fog? We go way back. A cat Mrrp. Come closer. See what happens. x-ray glasses X-ray glasses. Kat left them here. prebundler prebundler Return to Cameron Dutro unicorn-lockdown unicorn-lockdown Return to Jeremy Evans claide-completion claide-completion Return to Samuel Giddins rux rux Return to Cameron Dutro foobara foobara Return to Miles Georgi pronto-foodcritic pronto-foodcritic Return to Chris Fung binascii binascii Return to Cameron Dutro jar-dependencies jar-dependencies Return to Charles Nutter protobug protobug Return to Samuel Giddins rake-ant rake-ant Return to Charles Nutter docker-remote docker-remote Return to Cameron Dutro javasand javasand Return to Charles Nutter maven_gem maven_gem Return to Charles Nutter weakling weakling Return to Charles Nutter simple-graph simple-graph Return to Cameron Dutro erb erb Return to Takashi Kokubun net-smtp-proxy net-smtp-proxy Return to Cameron Dutro action_dispatch_test_predicates action_dispatch_test_predicates Return to Chris Fung jruby-ldap jruby-ldap Return to Charles Nutter webrick webrick Return to Jeremy Evans kuby-redis kuby-redis Return to Cameron Dutro kaeruera kaeruera Return to Jeremy Evans maven-tools maven-tools Return to Charles Nutter xcactivitylog xcactivitylog Return to Samuel Giddins pronto-eslint pronto-eslint Return to Chris Fung jbundler jbundler Return to Charles Nutter sigstore sigstore Return to Samuel Giddins activerecord-jdbc-adapter activerecord-jdbc-adapter Return to Charles Nutter turbo-sprockets-rails4 turbo-sprockets-rails4 Return to Cameron Dutro gelauto gelauto Return to Cameron Dutro md2key md2key Return to Takashi Kokubun morning_glory morning_glory Return to Todd Sedano hx_ruby hx_ruby Return to Carmine Paolino faker-bot faker-bot Return to Ben Curtis appengine-jruby-jars appengine-jruby-jars Return to John Woodell cskit cskit Return to Cameron Dutro lexxy lexxy Return to Rosa Gutierrez activerecord-precount activerecord-precount Return to Takashi Kokubun roda roda Return to Jeremy Evans txgh txgh Return to Cameron Dutro expeditor expeditor Return to Takashi Kokubun ntcharts ntcharts Return to Marco Roth jvectormap-rails jvectormap-rails Return to Cameron Dutro action_text-trix action_text-trix Return to Rosa Gutierrez appengine-tools appengine-tools Return to John Woodell reactionview reactionview Return to Marco Roth rux-rails rux-rails Return to Cameron Dutro jdbc-hsqldb jdbc-hsqldb Return to Charles Nutter cskit-shkts cskit-shkts Return to Cameron Dutro ffi-compiler ffi-compiler Return to Charles Nutter barbeque_client barbeque_client Return to Takashi Kokubun ruboto ruboto Return to Charles Nutter cocoapods-trunk cocoapods-trunk Return to Samuel Giddins rubanok rubanok Return to Vova Dementyev openapi_rspec openapi_rspec Return to Svyatoslav Kryukov beta-pod beta-pod Return to Samuel Giddins
Amanda Kinney Amanda Kinney
Hola!
Aleksandr Berdiugin Aleksandr Berdiugin
Hey-Hey! Let's talk!
Anton Senkovskiy Anton Senkovskiy
Hey! Any chance you brought some nice coffee beans?
Dave Doolin Dave Doolin
Howdy!
Nicolas Erlichman Nicolas Erlichman
Hey!
Avinash Joshi Avinash Joshi
Hi, I'm Avinash!
Miles Georgi Miles Georgi
foooooob!
Ben Curtis Ben Curtis
Hi, I'm Ben!
Jesper Christiansen Jesper Christiansen
Hi, I'm Jesper!
JP Camara JP Camara
Join us, here, among the clouds
Ken Decanio Ken Decanio
welcome to SF
David Paluy David Paluy
Hey Y`all! Ask me on How I AI with Ruby
Matt Duszynski Matt Duszynski
Ship it!
Mike Dalton Mike Dalton
Hi, I'm Mike!
Todd Sedano Todd Sedano
Hi, I'm Todd!
Travis Dockter Travis Dockter
I use vim btw
Yatish Mehta Yatish Mehta
Hi, I'm Yatish!
Benjamin Wood Benjamin Wood
Hi, I'm Benjamin!
Victoria Melnikova Victoria Melnikova
Welcome to SF Ruby!
Vova Dementyev Vova Dementyev
Rails Way, or the highway?
Chris Janik Chris Janik
Hi, I'm Chris!
Nate Vick Nate Vick
Hi I'm Nate! I love solving DX problems and generally helping unlock people.
John Woodell John Woodell
Hi, I'm John!
Chris Fung Chris Fung
Hi, I'm Chris!
Yang Chung Yang Chung
Hey all, glad to see you!
Camila Mirabal Camila Mirabal
I'm Cami. Not friendly before 9:30 am.
Aurelie Verrot Aurelie Verrot
Bonjour! Do you want a croissant?
Steph Farid Steph Farid
Hi, I'm Steph!
Zachary Roland Zachary Roland
Hi, I'm Zachary!
Matthew Solt Matthew Solt
Hi, I'm Matt! Let's talk Ruby and AI!
Dave Sick Dave Sick
Howdy! I'm Sick! What are you doing?
Luke Oldenburg Luke Oldenburg
Hey!
Jason Bosco Jason Bosco
Hi, I'm Jason!
Peter Zhu Peter Zhu
Hi, I'm Peter!
Rosa Gutierrez Rosa Gutierrez
Hi! 👋🏻 I hope you're having a lovely day! 😊
James Bracy James Bracy
Hello!
Julien DeFrance Julien DeFrance
Meet me at Ruby Conf, Rails World and the SF Ruby Conference!
Juli Tera Juli Tera
Fun things are fun! ✨
Enrique Mogollan Enrique Mogollan
Do you want coffee shops recommendations? How do you drink your coffee?
Marco Roth Marco Roth
Hello Ruby Friends
Sean Behan Sean Behan
Hi, I'm Sean!
Jason Thomas Jason Thomas
I'm from Denver and I like to talk about aerospace!
Alexander Tishchenko Alexander Tishchenko
Hi, I'm Alexander!
Ben Sheldon Ben Sheldon
You're doing a good job!
Chris Hough Chris Hough
Happy to Help!
Liz Pantalone Liz Pantalone
Hi, I'm Liz!
Svyatoslav Kryukov Svyatoslav Kryukov
Ever heard of Inertia Rails? Pretty hip, they say.
Andrey Novikov Andrey Novikov
Hello from the other side of the Pacific!
Wade Winningham Wade Winningham
Hi!
Trista Mueller Trista Mueller
👋
Irina Nazarova Irina Nazarova
Looking for a venue for Rails Girls on Nov 12!
Tyler Tyler
Ask me about Ductwork!
Alexy Mikhailichenko Alexy Mikhailichenko
Hi, I'm Alexy!
Harsh Parekh Harsh Parekh
Hi, I'm Harsh!
travis turner travis turner
Hi, I'm travis!
Nina R Nina R
Hi, I'm Nina!
Branka Kranjac Branka Kranjac
"Ciao world!" Let's talk Ruby!
Igor Arkhipov Igor Arkhipov
Hello there!
Madison Sites Madison Sites
Hey howdy hey!
Carlos Lopes Carlos Lopes
Hi, I'm Carlos!
Chris Davis Chris Davis
Hi, I'm Chris!
Chris Oliver Chris Oliver
Hello world! 👋
Vipul M Vipul M
Hi, I'm Vipul!
Polina Muñoz Polina Muñoz
Ahoy, fellow pixel person!
CJ Avilla (cjav_dev) CJ Avilla (cjav_dev)
Hi, I'm CJ!
Celine Celine
Hi!
Tim Krins Tim Krins
Forget coffee - where are the burritos
Josh Nolan Josh Nolan
Hello Rubyists!
Ben Parisot Ben Parisot
Hi, I'm Ben!
Sergey Karayev Sergey Karayev
Greetings!
lindsey anne lindsey anne
your weird legacy backend doesn't scare me. let's go data spelunking ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Hector Miramontes Hector Miramontes
Hi, I'm Hector!
Carmine Paolino Carmine Paolino
RubyLLM.chat.say "Hello!"
Marisa Lopez Marisa Lopez
Bonjour! How's it going?
Takashi Kokubun Takashi Kokubun
Hi, I'm Takashi!
Raphael Costa Raphael Costa
Just happy to be here!
Anton Lovchikov Anton Lovchikov
Hi, I'm Anton!
Ajaya Agrawalla Ajaya Agrawalla
Hey
Steven Ancheta Steven Ancheta
Hi, I'm Steven!
Gary Tou Gary Tou
👋 Hello, it's Gary!
Brian Reath Brian Reath
Hi, I'm Brian!
Alan Morales Alan Morales
Try mytarotjourney.com
Jeremy Evans Jeremy Evans
Try Ubicloud!
Peter Philips Peter Philips
Hi, I'm Peter!
Ambreen Hasan Ambreen Hasan
Hi, I'm Ambreen!
Sarah Young Sarah Young
Hallo!
Spencer Miskoviak Spencer Miskoviak
Hi, I'm Spencer!
Gideon Gideon
Hi, I'm Gideon!
Nancy Correa Nancy Correa
Hi, I'm Nancy!
Dominic Samphier Dominic Samphier
King's honour, friend.
Ben Tumbleson Ben Tumbleson
Hi, I'm Ben!
Ryan Kulp Ryan Kulp
안녕하세요~
Afra Ahmad Afra Ahmad
Hi, I'm Afra!
Haley Madsen Haley Madsen
Hey! I'm Haley :)
Jeremy Smith Jeremy Smith
Take a bite, and feel the burn!
Jim Remsik Jim Remsik
Hello, friend!
Cameron Dutro Cameron Dutro
Hi!! How do you feel about React?
Peter Armstrong Peter Armstrong
Hi
Andrew Wei Andrew Wei
🌥️
Fito Von Zastrow Fito Von Zastrow
Hi, I'm Fito!
Mohamad Mortada Mohamad Mortada
Hi, I'm Mohamad!
Samuel Fernandez Samuel Fernandez
Running on Rails on Ruby
Kevin Coleman Kevin Coleman
What's up, I'm Kev!
Josh Wood Josh Wood
It’s a common misconception that honeybadgers don’t care. They do!
Dominic Lizarraga Dominic Lizarraga
Hi, I'm Dominic!
Alan Ridlehoover Alan Ridlehoover
Hi, I'm Alan!
Chris Houhoulis Chris Houhoulis
Hi! I'll be visiting from Boston and volunteering at the conference.
Jake Yesbeck Jake Yesbeck
Hi, I'm Jake!
Amanda Perino Amanda Perino
Hi, I'm Amanda!
Melanie Alcantara Melanie Alcantara
Hi, I'm Melanie!
Karl McCollester Karl McCollester
Hi, I'm Karl!
Kirill Yakovenko Kirill Yakovenko
Hi, I'm Kirill!
Cosmo Martinez Cosmo Martinez
Hi, I'm Cosmo!
Bill Mers Bill Mers
Hi, I'm Bill!
Aatash Parikh Aatash Parikh
Hi, I'm Aatash!
Ian Dawson Ian Dawson
Hi, I'm Ian!
Daniel Hernandez Daniel Hernandez
Hi, I'm Daniel!
Manusvath Gurudath Manusvath Gurudath
Hi, I'm Manusvath!
Chris Saunders Chris Saunders
Hi, I'm Chris!
Charles Nutter Charles Nutter
Let's talk about JRuby!
Samuel Giddins Samuel Giddins
Hi, I'm Samuel!
Nabeel khan Nabeel khan
Hi, I'm Nabeel!
Braulio Martinez Braulio Martinez
Hi, I'm Braulio!
Ryan Sherlock Ryan Sherlock
Hi, I'm Ryan!
Madeline Hou Madeline Hou
woot woot year 2 lets goooo
Malav Bhavsar Malav Bhavsar
Hi, I'm Malav!
Jazz Garcha Jazz Garcha
Hi, I'm Jazz!
Ian Madden Ian Madden
Hi, I'm Ian!
Alex Tironati Alex Tironati
Hi, I'm Alex! We're shipping way too much!
Kat Drobnjakovic Kat Drobnjakovic
Hi! I'm kat
Karan Jain Karan Jain
Hi, I'm Karan!
Marcos Oliveira Marcos Oliveira
Hi, I'm Marcos!
Robert Schmitt Robert Schmitt
Hi, I'm Robert!
Bruno Fagundez Bruno Fagundez
Hi, I'm Bruno!
Akhil Naini Akhil Naini
Hi, I'm Akhil!
Steven Hansen Steven Hansen
Hi, I'm Steven!
Zach Margolis Zach Margolis
Hi, I'm Zach!
Erich Kist Erich Kist
Hi, I'm Erich!
Alex Coomans Alex Coomans
Hi, I'm Alex!
Pranav Pranav
Hi, I'm Pranav!
Chris Warren Chris Warren
hello
Mike Weber Mike Weber
Hi, I'm Mike!
Ran Craycraft Ran Craycraft
Hi, I'm Ran!
Andrew Ford Andrew Ford
Hi, I'm Andrew!
Dan Morena Dan Morena
Hi, I'm Dan!
Ajay Krishnan Ajay Krishnan
Hi, I'm Ajay!
Sergio Rabiela Sergio Rabiela
Hi, I'm Sergio!
Darren Noll Darren Noll
Hi, I'm Darren!
Brian Truong Brian Truong
Hi, I'm Brian!
Sojan Jose Sojan Jose
Hi, I'm Sojan!
Chad Metcalf Chad Metcalf
Hi, I'm Chad!

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Brian Truong

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I'm a backend engineer based in SF, mostly working in Ruby on Rails and Kotlin/Java. Spent the last several years building merchant tooling and commerce platform stuff at Afterpay and Cash App, doing performance work, caching, migrations, that kind of thing. The problems I like most: making slow things fast (query tuning, caching, load testing), and cleaning up messy systems without breaking them for the people relying on them. I like paying down technical debt :) Right now I'm job searching, and using the time to go deep on Ruby. Working through Practical Object-Oriented Design and The Well-Grounded Rubyist, and building out some personal projects in Rails to learn the Rails 6 to 8 gap. GitHub: https://github.com/bstruong LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bstruong Looking forward to meeting other Rails people in the city.