Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas is a renowned software developer, author, and keynote speaker. He is best known as one of the co-founders of The Pragmatic Programmers, a publishing company focused on providing practical programming books to developers. He has authored several best-selling books, including "Programming Ruby" which is widely considered a classic in the Ruby programming language community. He has contributed to many open-source projects and was an early adopter of Agile programming methodologies. Dave has worked for several notable companies such as IBM, where he was a project leader on one of the first IBM PC software products. He was also an adjunct professor of computer science at Southern Polytechnic State University. Dave has given keynote speeches at various tech conferences, such as the Agile Conference and the QCon Conference. He is highly respected in the software development community and continues to hold a significant influence on software development practices.