
Obie Fernandez
The "one and only" Obie Fernandez is an avid writer and technology enthusiast, in addition to achieving worldwide success as an electronic music producer and touring DJ. He is a Principal Engineer at Shopify and boasts a legendary 30 year career in software development and entrepreneurship.
Obie has been CTO and co-founder of many startups including Mark Zuckerberg's beloved Andela and Trevor Owen's Lean Startup Machine. His published books include Patterns of Application Development Using AI many editions of The Rails Way and the acclaimed business title The Lean Enterprise. He also founded one of the world's best known Ruby on Rails web design and development agencies, Hashrocket and served for many years as the series editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series.
On the rare occasion when Obie is not busy building products, consulting clients or writing books, you can find him behind the lens of his camera or DJing in the dust at Burning Man.
Follow @obie on Twitter or email him at obiefernandez@gmail.com


Episode 24
An Interview with Obie Fernandez