Freedom Dumlao
apiguy.dev
Freedom Dumlao
@apiguy.dev
Boston | CTO | Builder
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I met @apiguy.dev over Detroit-style pizza at RailsConf last year. His team was in the middle of a big migration at the time.

We talked about leadership, trust, and the power of making decisions—even when the team isn’t fully on board yet.
📻 @robbyonrails.com & @apiguy.dev reflect on why psychological safety is as important as code quality.
🖥️ Freedom emphasizes the need to “respect what came before” when maintaining legacy systems.
🎧 Listen here! maintainable.fm/episodes/fre...
🎙️ Hosted by Robby Russell | @planetargon.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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⌚ It's time to catch up with @Robbyonrails.com & hear about how at FlexCar, @Apiguy.dev led a bold replatforming effort from 70+ microservices back to a Ruby on Rails monolith.
📻 Listen to the full conversation here! maintainable.fm/episodes/fre...
🎙️ Hosted by @Robbyonrails.com | @Planetargon.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Freedom Dumlao ( @apiguy.dev ) joins me today on the Ode to RailsConf podcast.

We talk a bit about his journey back into Rails, the crazy launch story from RailsConf 2024, and his new position as Director and Treasurer for Ruby Central.

www.odetorailsconf.com/2363110/epis...
Freedom Dumlao - Ode to RailsConf
A journey of technology transformation unfolds as Freedom Dumlao shares his experience migrating from Java to Ruby on Rails amidst the pressure of RailsConf. Highlighting community support, leadership...
www.odetorailsconf.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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My next guest on the podcast is Freedom Dumlao (@apiguy.dev)! We talk about his journey re-joining the Rails Community after some time away, the crazy story from RailsConf 2024, and about his recent appointments as a Director and Treasurer of Ruby Central. Episode drops Monday morning!
March 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Babar looks awesome - it will spider your codebase, understand the purpose of the code and then help you and your team to understand it too. Excited to add another awesome tool to the toolbox!

github.com/jtushman/babar
GitHub - jtushman/babar: An elephant never fogets. Babar is an intelligent codebase analyzer designed to bridge the gap between your existing codebase and modern AI-powered development workflows
An elephant never fogets. Babar is an intelligent codebase analyzer designed to bridge the gap between your existing codebase and modern AI-powered development workflows - jtushman/babar
github.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social wrote about the new Modular Garbage Collection in Ruby 3.4, how it works and what it means: railsatscale.com/2025-01-08-n...
New for Ruby 3.4: Modular Garbage Collection and MMTk
This post describes the new modular garbage collection feature in Ruby 3.4: The ability to override Ruby’s GC at runtime. We also introduce our first concrete alternative GC implementation, based on t...
railsatscale.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My friends Flexcar know what this means 😉🤫 #Ruby
January 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What an honor to be able to support this amazing community however I can, along side some truly amazing people!
We're thrilled to welcome Ruby Central's new board members: Freedom Dumlao and Naijeria Toweett! 🎆 🙌
January 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🚨 #RAILSCONF2025 UPDATE! 🚨

We are hoping to host our FINAL RailsConf in Philadelphia in July 2025. Help us make that happen!

If you're interested in attending or sponsoring, let us know by dropping your email here 👇
Help Make RailsConf 2025 Happen
RailsConf is the longest-running gathering of Rails developers, dedicated to building, managing, and testing Rails applications. After almost 20 years, RailsConf 2025 will be our final conference — a…
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November 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Karaoke at #RubyConf is kind of a big deal…
November 16, 2024 at 4:04 AM
A great keynote to start the day @baweaver.bsky.social demystifying Monads #RubyConf #RubyFriends
November 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM
As expected @matz.bsky.social has everyone inspired after the keynote. Loved the framing of Automatic Typing #RubyFriends #RubyConf
November 13, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Logo board available in dark mode!
#RubyConf
November 13, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Ok #RubyConf friends - heading down to get a beer at Kitty’s. Is that where folks are hanging out?
November 13, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Hello Chicago! Super pumped for #RubyConf
November 13, 2024 at 12:56 AM