Vitaly Kushner is a co-founder of Astrails, the
best known Ruby on Rails consulting company in Israel. He has more then 20 years of industry expeerience in a wide range of technologies, from Sinclair Basic to Linux kernel drivers. Vitaly started using Rails in 2005, and it still serves as the primary "weapon" at Astrails for developing web applications and mobile backends.


Vitaly is a public speaker and has been promoting Ruby and Rails in
Israel since 2006 when he helped organising and managing first Israeli
Ruby Group. Vitaly speaks at conferences and teaches Ruby on Rails
courses.

Together with Rails legend Obie Fernandes Vitaly co-authored "The
Rails™ 4 Way" - the latest edition of the most comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 4.