Avdi Grimm
MC Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolAvdi Grimm is an experienced software engineer, coach, and author with 11+ years crafting reliable systems and mentoring developers, currently leading Graceful.Dev as MC / Head Gardener. He runs RubyTapas and has authored influential books like Confident Ruby and Exceptional Ruby, blending deep Ruby expertise with practical teaching. His background spans startups and embedded/industrial systems—from employee #1 at an early cloud test startup to building air-traffic control and clinical research software—giving him a rare mix of distributed systems, testing, and domain-driven design experience. Based in Missouri, he’s committed to humane, impact-focused software and helping engineers bring their whole selves to craft confident, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Carroll Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (171)
rubocop10
programming-language10
displays10
rspec10
mvc10
ruby10
linter10
activerecord10
rake10
ruby-on-rails10
rakefile10
code-analyzer10
html10
rust10
exceptions10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
avdi/purse
May 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
avdi/ivar
Apr 2025 - May 2025
Checked Ruby instance variables
Contributions:156 pushes, 1 branch, 8 tags in 27 days
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