Neal Ford

Director / Software Architect / Meme wrangler

Why did you join ThoughtWorks?

Awesome people.

Who would play you in "ThoughtWorks: The Movie?"

Elijah Woods, because he too has abnormally large eyes.

Who is your favourite ThoughtWorker and why?

Pat Sarnacke: a great man who doesn't know it (which is part of what makes him great).

My talks

Rails in the Large - Hamburg

Hear from luminary Neal Ford about about infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimisation, performance, and the results of lots of lessons learned...

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Rails in the large

How agility allows us to build the world's biggest rails app
While others have been debating whether Rails projects can scale to enterprise levels, we've been demonstrating it. ThoughtWorks is running one of the largest Rails projects in the world - for an Enterprise.

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YOW! 2010

ThoughtWorks is the proud gold sponsor of YOW! the Australian Software Developer conference being held in...

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About me

Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler. He helps in the architecture, design, and development of applications large and small. He has written several books (the last being The Productive Programmer, published in 2008 by O'Reilly), created numerous instructional videos, written a slew of traditional and online magazine articles, and has spoken at more than 500 conferences, delivering more than 2000 talks.

I've worked here

Australia, Canada, India, UK, USA