Bruce Tate is a mountain biker, kayaker, and father of two from Austin, Texas. The international author and speaker is the president and founder of RapidRed , a consultancy focusing on rapid web development using lightweight technologies, especially Ruby. He has delivered production Rails applications since the pre-Rails 1.0 release. As the chief architect and CTO of WellGood, LLC, he served as CTO, handling leadership and primary development responsibilities for ChangingThePresent.org and ClassWish.org. He is the author of eleven books, including Deploying Rails Applications, From Java to Ruby, Beyond Java, and Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.

Today, he is leading development for sites such as DigTheDirt , the social gardening site that formally launched in the Spring of 2010 and BuyerLens, a buying service expected to launch in late 2010.