James Golick
James Lennon Engels Golick (October 4, 1985 - December 26, 2014) was a software engineer and notable open source software contributor who specialized in systems programming and Ruby on Rails. He was the Chief Technical Officer at Normal, co-founder of packagecloud.io, co-host of the Real Talk podcast,[1] and previously the Chief Technical Officer of FetLife.[2]
Golick's prominence as a software engineer began when he wrote the quitebacktrace[3] and resource_controller[4][5] software libraries for the Ruby programming language. He was a prominent speaker at several conferences around the world, on an array of topics in computer science and engineering.[6] He is also well known for performance improvements made to tcmalloc,[7] and for improvements to MRI's method caching system.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Real Talk Podcast". iTunes. James Golick and Joe Damato. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Former Vancouver tech wizard killed in Mexico car accident". Retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ "Shhh! Your Test::Unit backtraces are too noisy!". Retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ "Rails: DRY controllers with ResourceController". Retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ "Easy Restful Rails Screencast". Retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ http://jamesgolick.com/talks.html
- ↑ "O(n) address-ordered best-fit over PageHeap::large_ becomes major scalability bottleneck on fragmented heap". Retrieved 2015-01-02.
- ↑ http://jamesgolick.com/2013/4/14/mris-method-caches.html
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