Antonio Cangiano

Technical Evangelist and Software Engineer at IBM

Location: Penticton, British Columbia, Canada (British Columbia, Canada)
Industry: Computer Software

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Technical Evangelist and Software Engineer, specializing in Ruby and Ruby on Rails application development. Part of the DB2 team at the IBM Toronto Lab, where I was the initial author of the adapter for DB2 on Rails. I regularly speak at conferences on the subject of Rails and DB2, and I've contributed to a couple of books related to Ruby (in English and in Italian). I'm also the author of "Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers" published by Wrox in 2009.

I'm really interested in cutting edge technology, programming languages, algorithms, databases (relational and NoSQL ones), RIA and AJAX, open source, XP/Agile methodologies, Cloud computing, science, mathematics, and anything on the bleeding edge of the web. Beside Ruby, my interests are geared towards programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, Clojure, and Haskell. In a past life I was really into C# and the .NET framework (as an early adopter and community leader since the very beginning) but I moved on several years ago.

Beside programming, I have a great deal of interest in technical writing, marketing, social media, and the world of entrepreneurship and startups in general. (I've written and presented on the subject.)

I'm an avid reader and my main goal is to improve myself and positively affect other people in the process.

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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Clojure, XHTML, JavaScript, DB2, and relational databases in general (including MySQL and PostgreSQL). I also have experience with mentoring and coaching other developers, and promoting technologies within the Enterprise and development communities. Technical marketing is definitely one of my specialties and passions, and so is inbound marketing and social media.

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Any New Books?

August 2010 – Present (1 year 10 months)

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Technical Evangelist and Software Engineer

IBM

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2006 – Present (6 years 3 months)

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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, functional programming languages, XML, XHTML, AJAX, JavaScript, JSON, RESTful Web Services, DB2 and databases in general, innovation on the web, Social Media, startups, Inbound Marketing, Technical Marketing

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