Russ Olsen has been building software for the last 35 years, everything from engineering document management systems to database query engines. Russ has been on a career long quest to find a better programming language and was an early adopter of Clojure, Ruby, Java and Python. Russ is the author of Getting Clojure as well as two books on Ruby, Design Patterns in Ruby and Eloquent Ruby. Russ is a constant if sometimes reluctant conference speaker.