Obie Fernandez

Who is Obie Fernandez?

Obie Fernandez is a recognized tech industry leader and consultant. His company, Hashrocket specializes in the development and maintenance of large-scale, web-based applications. He lives in Jacksonville Beach, FL and has two children: Taylor Anne, 11 and Liam, 9 years old. Obie is an accomplished conference speaker, blogger and book author. He is Series Editor of the Professional Ruby Series for prestigious tech publishing house Addison-Wesley and his own book for the series is titled The Rails Way. Obie also manages the Ruby content and a team of volunteer reporters as editor of the popular technology portal InfoQ.com, with over 332,000 unique visitors in August 2008.