Anton Tkachov
@antontkachov.bsky.social
Talent-as-a-Service Founder | Ukrainian 🇺🇦 living in Chicago 🇺🇸 | Helping Tech Leaders engage incredible coding and design professionals via flexible | Ruby / Python / Node.js / React.js / Vue.js / UX / UI
November ChicagoRuby × @cisco.com — what a night 🔥
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
November ChicagoRuby × @cisco.com — what a night 🔥
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
@sfruby.com Day 3 was the perfect community break!
Started with a Lucasfilm museum walk (thank you, @inazarova.bsky.social), then joined the Golden Gate Bridge bike tour with @kanejamison.com, @jpcamara.com, @jeremysmith.co, @adarsh.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy and so many amazing Rubyists.
Started with a Lucasfilm museum walk (thank you, @inazarova.bsky.social), then joined the Golden Gate Bridge bike tour with @kanejamison.com, @jpcamara.com, @jeremysmith.co, @adarsh.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy and so many amazing Rubyists.
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@sfruby.com Day 3 was the perfect community break!
Started with a Lucasfilm museum walk (thank you, @inazarova.bsky.social), then joined the Golden Gate Bridge bike tour with @kanejamison.com, @jpcamara.com, @jeremysmith.co, @adarsh.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy and so many amazing Rubyists.
Started with a Lucasfilm museum walk (thank you, @inazarova.bsky.social), then joined the Golden Gate Bridge bike tour with @kanejamison.com, @jpcamara.com, @jeremysmith.co, @adarsh.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy and so many amazing Rubyists.
⚡️ Tonight: Final #ChicagoRuby meetup of 2025
Planned talk is paused, but the meetup and Hack Night are very much on:
- more time to connect
- pairing, building, and experimenting with fellow Rubyists & DPI students
📍 6:00–8:30 PM
🔗 Intro stream: us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577...
See you!
Planned talk is paused, but the meetup and Hack Night are very much on:
- more time to connect
- pairing, building, and experimenting with fellow Rubyists & DPI students
📍 6:00–8:30 PM
🔗 Intro stream: us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577...
See you!
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
⚡️ Tonight: Final #ChicagoRuby meetup of 2025
Planned talk is paused, but the meetup and Hack Night are very much on:
- more time to connect
- pairing, building, and experimenting with fellow Rubyists & DPI students
📍 6:00–8:30 PM
🔗 Intro stream: us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577...
See you!
Planned talk is paused, but the meetup and Hack Night are very much on:
- more time to connect
- pairing, building, and experimenting with fellow Rubyists & DPI students
📍 6:00–8:30 PM
🔗 Intro stream: us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577...
See you!
🔹 Ubicloud Demo at #struby — Open-Source Alternative to AWS
Dan Farina deployed Mastodon across VMs, Postgres, Valkey, load balancers, and subnets in minutes.
- Open-source cloud primitives
- Fully encrypted networking
Seeing Mastodon spin up live was a highlight!
Dan Farina deployed Mastodon across VMs, Postgres, Valkey, load balancers, and subnets in minutes.
- Open-source cloud primitives
- Fully encrypted networking
Seeing Mastodon spin up live was a highlight!
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🔹 Ubicloud Demo at #struby — Open-Source Alternative to AWS
Dan Farina deployed Mastodon across VMs, Postgres, Valkey, load balancers, and subnets in minutes.
- Open-source cloud primitives
- Fully encrypted networking
Seeing Mastodon spin up live was a highlight!
Dan Farina deployed Mastodon across VMs, Postgres, Valkey, load balancers, and subnets in minutes.
- Open-source cloud primitives
- Fully encrypted networking
Seeing Mastodon spin up live was a highlight!
🔹 @temporaltech.bsky.social Demo at #struby — Durable Execution for Ruby
Tom Wheeler demonstrated Temporal’s core strength: kill the process mid-task -> it restarts and continues without losing state.
“Your code focuses on the happy path. Temporal does the pessimism for you.”
Tom Wheeler demonstrated Temporal’s core strength: kill the process mid-task -> it restarts and continues without losing state.
“Your code focuses on the happy path. Temporal does the pessimism for you.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🔹 @temporaltech.bsky.social Demo at #struby — Durable Execution for Ruby
Tom Wheeler demonstrated Temporal’s core strength: kill the process mid-task -> it restarts and continues without losing state.
“Your code focuses on the happy path. Temporal does the pessimism for you.”
Tom Wheeler demonstrated Temporal’s core strength: kill the process mid-task -> it restarts and continues without losing state.
“Your code focuses on the happy path. Temporal does the pessimism for you.”
🔹 NexHealth Demo at #struby — Healthcare Data Sync Engine
Matt Duszynski showed how NexHealth connects to hundreds of EHR systems (many borderline prehistoric).
- Normalizes inconsistent medical data
“The healthcare industry barely works… Healthcare technology is stuck in 1997.”
Matt Duszynski showed how NexHealth connects to hundreds of EHR systems (many borderline prehistoric).
- Normalizes inconsistent medical data
“The healthcare industry barely works… Healthcare technology is stuck in 1997.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🔹 NexHealth Demo at #struby — Healthcare Data Sync Engine
Matt Duszynski showed how NexHealth connects to hundreds of EHR systems (many borderline prehistoric).
- Normalizes inconsistent medical data
“The healthcare industry barely works… Healthcare technology is stuck in 1997.”
Matt Duszynski showed how NexHealth connects to hundreds of EHR systems (many borderline prehistoric).
- Normalizes inconsistent medical data
“The healthcare industry barely works… Healthcare technology is stuck in 1997.”
🔹 Finta Demo at #struby — Unified Banking Integrations
Andy Wang demoed a universal API that normalizes messy banking data.
- Reconciliations, schemas, transaction formats
“On average we auto-categorize 99.7% of transactions for customers, and we have a 97% accuracy rate.”
Andy Wang demoed a universal API that normalizes messy banking data.
- Reconciliations, schemas, transaction formats
“On average we auto-categorize 99.7% of transactions for customers, and we have a 97% accuracy rate.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🔹 Finta Demo at #struby — Unified Banking Integrations
Andy Wang demoed a universal API that normalizes messy banking data.
- Reconciliations, schemas, transaction formats
“On average we auto-categorize 99.7% of transactions for customers, and we have a 97% accuracy rate.”
Andy Wang demoed a universal API that normalizes messy banking data.
- Reconciliations, schemas, transaction formats
“On average we auto-categorize 99.7% of transactions for customers, and we have a 97% accuracy rate.”
🔹 Superconductor Demo at #sfruby — Multi-Agent Cloud Coding
Arjun Singh demoed an agent playground with dedicated cloud dev environments: each agent gets its own VM, browser, Rails server, and preview link.
“We want Claude and other agents to keep working even if our laptop’s closed.”
Arjun Singh demoed an agent playground with dedicated cloud dev environments: each agent gets its own VM, browser, Rails server, and preview link.
“We want Claude and other agents to keep working even if our laptop’s closed.”
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🔹 Superconductor Demo at #sfruby — Multi-Agent Cloud Coding
Arjun Singh demoed an agent playground with dedicated cloud dev environments: each agent gets its own VM, browser, Rails server, and preview link.
“We want Claude and other agents to keep working even if our laptop’s closed.”
Arjun Singh demoed an agent playground with dedicated cloud dev environments: each agent gets its own VM, browser, Rails server, and preview link.
“We want Claude and other agents to keep working even if our laptop’s closed.”
🔹 Sixfold Demo at #sfruby — Insurance Risk Intelligence
Brian Moseley talked about a system that reads 10 novels worth of material per underwriter per week and turns it into structured risk signals.
“We modelled each carrier’s risk appetite as data, then let agents make decisions inside that frame”
Brian Moseley talked about a system that reads 10 novels worth of material per underwriter per week and turns it into structured risk signals.
“We modelled each carrier’s risk appetite as data, then let agents make decisions inside that frame”
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🔹 Sixfold Demo at #sfruby — Insurance Risk Intelligence
Brian Moseley talked about a system that reads 10 novels worth of material per underwriter per week and turns it into structured risk signals.
“We modelled each carrier’s risk appetite as data, then let agents make decisions inside that frame”
Brian Moseley talked about a system that reads 10 novels worth of material per underwriter per week and turns it into structured risk signals.
“We modelled each carrier’s risk appetite as data, then let agents make decisions inside that frame”
🔹 Fin by Intercom Demo at #sfruby — Native AI Agent + Copilot
Intercom showcased Fin, an AI customer-service agent built on LLMs, multimodal reasoning, and API-driven procedures.
“AI has superpowers. It speaks every language and works 24/7.”
Intercom showcased Fin, an AI customer-service agent built on LLMs, multimodal reasoning, and API-driven procedures.
“AI has superpowers. It speaks every language and works 24/7.”
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🔹 Fin by Intercom Demo at #sfruby — Native AI Agent + Copilot
Intercom showcased Fin, an AI customer-service agent built on LLMs, multimodal reasoning, and API-driven procedures.
“AI has superpowers. It speaks every language and works 24/7.”
Intercom showcased Fin, an AI customer-service agent built on LLMs, multimodal reasoning, and API-driven procedures.
“AI has superpowers. It speaks every language and works 24/7.”
🔹 Cactus Demo at #sfruby — Voice AI for Home Services
Avinash Joshi demoed a live AI phone agent that answers calls, qualifies leads, books jobs, writes summaries, and syncs to CRM — all in Ruby.
For one HVAC company alone, Cactus added $37k in extra revenue.
Avinash Joshi demoed a live AI phone agent that answers calls, qualifies leads, books jobs, writes summaries, and syncs to CRM — all in Ruby.
For one HVAC company alone, Cactus added $37k in extra revenue.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔹 Cactus Demo at #sfruby — Voice AI for Home Services
Avinash Joshi demoed a live AI phone agent that answers calls, qualifies leads, books jobs, writes summaries, and syncs to CRM — all in Ruby.
For one HVAC company alone, Cactus added $37k in extra revenue.
Avinash Joshi demoed a live AI phone agent that answers calls, qualifies leads, books jobs, writes summaries, and syncs to CRM — all in Ruby.
For one HVAC company alone, Cactus added $37k in extra revenue.
🔹 AI Squared Demo at #sfruby — Multiwoven (Reverse ETL)
Nagendra Hassan showed how Multiwoven brings warehouse -> SaaS syncs into one clean, Rails-driven pipeline.
- Rails monolith + pluggable workers (Sidekiq or Temporal)
“Teams don’t want more connectors, they want experiments to be fast.”
Nagendra Hassan showed how Multiwoven brings warehouse -> SaaS syncs into one clean, Rails-driven pipeline.
- Rails monolith + pluggable workers (Sidekiq or Temporal)
“Teams don’t want more connectors, they want experiments to be fast.”
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🔹 AI Squared Demo at #sfruby — Multiwoven (Reverse ETL)
Nagendra Hassan showed how Multiwoven brings warehouse -> SaaS syncs into one clean, Rails-driven pipeline.
- Rails monolith + pluggable workers (Sidekiq or Temporal)
“Teams don’t want more connectors, they want experiments to be fast.”
Nagendra Hassan showed how Multiwoven brings warehouse -> SaaS syncs into one clean, Rails-driven pipeline.
- Rails monolith + pluggable workers (Sidekiq or Temporal)
“Teams don’t want more connectors, they want experiments to be fast.”
✨ @inazarova.bsky.social at #sfruby — Closing Words: A Moment for the Community
Irina closed the conference with a message that was quietly powerful:
- Ruby is not a trend, it’s a community with a long memory
She reminded us that: “Ruby stays alive because Rubyists stay connected.”
Irina closed the conference with a message that was quietly powerful:
- Ruby is not a trend, it’s a community with a long memory
She reminded us that: “Ruby stays alive because Rubyists stay connected.”
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
✨ @inazarova.bsky.social at #sfruby — Closing Words: A Moment for the Community
Irina closed the conference with a message that was quietly powerful:
- Ruby is not a trend, it’s a community with a long memory
She reminded us that: “Ruby stays alive because Rubyists stay connected.”
Irina closed the conference with a message that was quietly powerful:
- Ruby is not a trend, it’s a community with a long memory
She reminded us that: “Ruby stays alive because Rubyists stay connected.”
🔹 Sarah Mei at #sfruby — “The Hardest Part About Software Is People”
Sarah’s talk changes how you see your team
- Technical debt is usually decision-making debt: postponed choices, unclear ownership, fragile context
“The real work is making the invisible visible. Code is only one part of the job.”
Sarah’s talk changes how you see your team
- Technical debt is usually decision-making debt: postponed choices, unclear ownership, fragile context
“The real work is making the invisible visible. Code is only one part of the job.”
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🔹 Sarah Mei at #sfruby — “The Hardest Part About Software Is People”
Sarah’s talk changes how you see your team
- Technical debt is usually decision-making debt: postponed choices, unclear ownership, fragile context
“The real work is making the invisible visible. Code is only one part of the job.”
Sarah’s talk changes how you see your team
- Technical debt is usually decision-making debt: postponed choices, unclear ownership, fragile context
“The real work is making the invisible visible. Code is only one part of the job.”
🔹 Vladimir Dementyev at #sfruby — “Rails X: Reflect, Evolve, Predict”
- ActiveRecord is powerful, but power demands intention -> Rails gives freedom, teams decide how to use it
“Rails’ future isn’t authored by one person — it’s shaped by what we choose to build together.”
- ActiveRecord is powerful, but power demands intention -> Rails gives freedom, teams decide how to use it
“Rails’ future isn’t authored by one person — it’s shaped by what we choose to build together.”
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🔹 Vladimir Dementyev at #sfruby — “Rails X: Reflect, Evolve, Predict”
- ActiveRecord is powerful, but power demands intention -> Rails gives freedom, teams decide how to use it
“Rails’ future isn’t authored by one person — it’s shaped by what we choose to build together.”
- ActiveRecord is powerful, but power demands intention -> Rails gives freedom, teams decide how to use it
“Rails’ future isn’t authored by one person — it’s shaped by what we choose to build together.”
The final #ChicagoRuby meetup of the year is here ⚡️
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The final #ChicagoRuby meetup of the year is here ⚡️
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
@sfruby.com (#sfruby) — Day 2 Talks (Part 1): Systems, Teams & People who build them
Day 2 opened with talks that weren’t just technical, they challenged how I think about teams and tooling. I’ll unpack my biggest takeaways in the next posts 😉
Day 2 opened with talks that weren’t just technical, they challenged how I think about teams and tooling. I’ll unpack my biggest takeaways in the next posts 😉
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@sfruby.com (#sfruby) — Day 2 Talks (Part 1): Systems, Teams & People who build them
Day 2 opened with talks that weren’t just technical, they challenged how I think about teams and tooling. I’ll unpack my biggest takeaways in the next posts 😉
Day 2 opened with talks that weren’t just technical, they challenged how I think about teams and tooling. I’ll unpack my biggest takeaways in the next posts 😉
🔹 Colleen Schnettler at #sfruby — “Building Products Without Overbuilding”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔹 Colleen Schnettler at #sfruby — “Building Products Without Overbuilding”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
🔹 Eugene Kenny at #sfruby — “Intercom Engineering: Scaling the Unscalable
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🔹 Eugene Kenny at #sfruby — “Intercom Engineering: Scaling the Unscalable
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
🔹 @obiefernandez.bsky.social at #sfruby — “Performance Starts With You”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🔹 @obiefernandez.bsky.social at #sfruby — “Performance Starts With You”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
🔹 Fireside + Live Demo at #sfruby: Bolt.new (Albert Pai & Alex Kalderimis)
An unplanned fireside stepped in for the scheduled talk — and somehow turned into one of the most mind-bending sessions of the day.
- AI acts as a co-developer, guiding decisions instead of dumping code
An unplanned fireside stepped in for the scheduled talk — and somehow turned into one of the most mind-bending sessions of the day.
- AI acts as a co-developer, guiding decisions instead of dumping code
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🔹 planetscale.com — Zero-to-Sharded in Minutes
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🔹 planetscale.com — Zero-to-Sharded in Minutes
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
🔹 AngelList — Financial Reporting at Scale
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🔹 AngelList — Financial Reporting at Scale
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
🔹 Thatch — Modern Healthcare Benefits
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🔹 Thatch — Modern Healthcare Benefits
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
🔹 Stepful — Healthcare Career Training
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🔹 Stepful — Healthcare Career Training
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.