{"slug": "people-behind-solid-queue-yc-and-anycable-speaking-at-the-same-conference", "title": "People behind Solid Queue, YC, and AnyCable speaking at the same conference?", "summary": "The San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026 will take place in San Francisco, featuring speakers from Solid Queue, Y Combinator, and AnyCable, with tickets priced at $450 until September 30. The conference aims to gather 450 Ruby and Rails engineers and founders, offering networking groups, a founders' round with Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, and interactive games.", "body_md": "# San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026\n\n450 Ruby and Rails engineers and founders meet in San Francisco to build the future\n\n[Join the game Buy the ticket $450 · until Sep 30](https://luma.com/sfrubyconf2026)\n\n## The lineup\n\n-\nGarry Tan\n\nBuilt Bookface, YC's internal platform, on Rails. Now runs the place.\n\nKeynote -\nRyan Sherlock\n\nScales the Rails infrastructure and MySQL fleet behind Fin, the AI customer service agent.\n\n-\nCole Robertson\n\nYC S25. Measures bulk inventory nobody can barcode, with LiDAR and computer vision.\n\n-\nCarmine Paolino\n\nCreator of RubyLLM, the Ruby framework for every major AI provider.\n\n-\nRosa Gutiérrez\n\nBuilt Solid Queue, the job backend that ships with Rails 8.\n\n-\nJason Bosco\n\nBootstrapped an open-source search engine on Rails. It answers 10B+ searches a month.\n\n-\nChris Oliver\n\nHas taught Rails to a generation of developers. Maintains Pay, Noticed and Jumpstart.\n\n-\nVladimir Dementyev\n\nAuthor of AnyCable, TestProf and Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications.\n\n-\nAndrey Novikov\n\nAuthor of Yabeda, the Ruby instrumentation framework with over 10 million downloads.\n\n-\nJason Thomas\n\nCo-created COSMOS, the Ruby stack used to build, test and fly satellites and robots.\n\n-\nNeha Abraham\n\nBuilds the data tools a nationwide remodeling business runs on, in Rails.\n\n-\nMarisa Lopez\n\nBuilds public health infrastructure on Rails: the platform connecting labs, clinics and patients.\n\n-\nPhillip Campbell\n\nScales Sidekiq and the Rails apps that run payroll for hundreds of thousands of small businesses.\n\n-\nPeter Zhu\n\nRuby core committer. Works on Ruby's garbage collector at Shopify.\n\n-\nBen Sheldon\n\nAuthor of GoodJob, the Postgres-backed Active Job backend.\n\n-\nAlex Coomans\n\nSimplifies the Rails architecture behind Persona's identity platform. Spent nine years scaling Square before that.\n\n-\nMadison Sites\n\nWrangles legacy Rails in production. Speaks on what AI agents can and can't fix in old codebases.\n\n-\nCJ Avilla\n\nTeaches Rails on YouTube. Previously an engineer at Craftwork and developer educator at Stripe.\n\n-\nIrina Nazarova\n\nCEO, and co-founder of AnyCable, the WebSocket server for Ruby.\n\nKeynote\n\n## More than a room of talks\n\nHalf the value of a conference is who you meet, so it is on the schedule rather than left to the coffee queue.\n\n- 01\n### Everyone gets a mic\n\nYou are matched into at least two networking groups of 70 to 100 people. In each one you get 60 seconds on the mic to say who you are and what you are building.\n\n- 02\n### Teams of 5+ get a longer slot\n\nBring five or more from your company and you get extended time, and slides, to introduce the team to the room.\n\n- 03\n### Founders' round with Garry Tan\n\nA dedicated group for founders and founding teams with the President and CEO of Y Combinator.\n\n## The conference starts now\n\nYour ticket is a character slot. The game begins the day you register, months before the doors open.\n\n- 01\n### Your character joins the map\n\nUpload a photo and get your Cloud Card: an 8-bit version of you, up on the clouds on one big shared picture with everyone else who is going.\n\n- 02\n### Tasks and games, starting now\n\nQuests run in the conference app and the SF Ruby Slack from the day you register until November. Complete them and badges stack up on your Cloud Card.\n\n- 03\n### Arrive knowing your crew\n\nWe match you into a group by shared interests. Find your people online first, then in person at SFJAZZ, where the last badges are earned face to face.\n\nTickets\n\n## Three days at SFJAZZ\n\nAll talks, all networking sessions, and the community day.\n\n- Early bird Sold out $350\n- Regular Until Sep 30 $450\n- Company-sponsored Invoiced, expensable, no deadline $650\n\n### Bringing your team?\n\nEveryone gets 60 seconds on the mic in their networking groups. Teams of 5 or more get extended time, and slides, to introduce the company. Group registration is open on Luma, and we invoice.\n\nSan Francisco\n\n## SF Ruby Conference 2026 Sponsors\n\nThe first companies backing year two. Thank you!\n\n## Tickets are on sale\n\n## SF Ruby, All Year Round\n\nThe conference is year two of a community that meets every month: free meetups, a curated jobs board, and a running feed of Ruby startup news.\n\n## Choose your quest\n\nTickets, sponsorship, the meetup, or just say hi.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/people-behind-solid-queue-yc-and-anycable-speaking-at-the-same-conference", "canonical_source": "https://sfruby.com/", "published_at": "2026-08-11 19:29:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 19:42:24.595456+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference", "Y Combinator", "AnyCable", "Solid Queue", "Garry Tan", "RubyLLM", "GoodJob", "Sidekiq"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/people-behind-solid-queue-yc-and-anycable-speaking-at-the-same-conference", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/people-behind-solid-queue-yc-and-anycable-speaking-at-the-same-conference.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/people-behind-solid-queue-yc-and-anycable-speaking-at-the-same-conference.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/people-behind-solid-queue-yc-and-anycable-speaking-at-the-same-conference.jsonld"}}