San Diego
October 18, 2025
In San Diego, golden coastlines stretch between craft breweries and taco shops, where desert canyons meet a metropolis alive with surfers, rooftop bars, and bustling harbor walks. Here, dreamers, creators, and entrepreneurs from La Jolla to Chula Vista, and from Mission Beach to East County, come together to share visionary concepts under the warm embrace of year-round sunshine. This is your chance to dive into San Diego's culture of laid-back innovation, coastal creativity, and endless possibility—building relationships as genuine and dynamic as America's Finest City itself.
XO Ruby San Diego is a single-day, single-track conference designed to draw folks in from the city and the region. An approachable $100 ticket price coupled with no need for a hotel or airfare means you can connect with your community without breaking the bank.
Chantelle Isaacs
With 7 years of experience working with students, tech, and teams, Chantelle is currently a career coach working with junior Rails developers entering the industry, as well as the teams who hire and mentor them. She also plays D&D sessions weekly.
Tim Riley
Tim leads the Hanami, Dry, and Rom projects. He’s been writing Ruby for over 20 years and still loves it! He works to bring the joy of Ruby to writing real, maintainable apps of all shapes and sizes.
Braulio Martinez
Cofounder & Software Engineer at Cedarcode. Ruby fan since 2010. OSS believer. Author and maintiner of webauthn-ruby & underlying dependencies. Proud father of 2.
Karl Oscar Weber
Karl Oscar Weber is a Utah based designer, programmer, and rabble rouser, that's been in love with the Web for over 20 years. His interests include Graffiti, Graphic Design, Programming Language Design, Ruby, Economics, Sociology, and the imperative rebellion against fascism. He has been described as: "A real one." Found everywhere as kowfm, and sometimes as karloscarweber.
Sunjay Armstead
Sunjay is passionate about the intersection of design and engineering. He's a lifelong learner, a champion of emerging talent, and forever the tinkerer. He lives in Durham, NC USA with his lovely wife, rambunctious dog, and a herd of adorable cats. Make sure to ask him about milkshakes!
Craig Buchek
Craig has been using Ruby and Rails since 2005. He enjoys writing concise readable code, especially in Ruby. He enjoys a player-coach role, helping teams improve their processes, technical practices, and automation.Giving a conference talk is Craig's way to strike up some conversations. If you want to make small talk, ask Craig about traveling, attending concerts, canoeing, beekeeping, or where he was when the pandemic hit.
Claudio Baccigalupo
250+ commits to the Rails codebase, editor of “This week in Rails”, loving Ruby on Rails since 2006!
5490 La Jolla Boulevard – Found Studio
Luxury space in the heart of Bird Rock La Jolla. A blank canvas space, our design studio space has plenty of natural light and breathing room for your group.
