About Rails Machine
We are a small team of experienced, dedicated, and focused people who have a genuine interest in technology and enjoy working with and giving back to the Ruby on Rails community. We founded Rails Machine in 2006 to create the ultimate hosting environment for Rails applications.
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Bradley Taylor
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Bradley has almost 20 years of experience, working on a wide range of software projects for the web and enterprise server environments. His inspiration to start Rails Machine grew from his work and experience as a software development consultant, building applications for customers. Before founding Rails Machine in 2006, Bradley worked for ESRI as a Sr. Software Engineer on the ArcGIS Server and Geodatabase teams.
Bradley also runs a farm focused on raising heritage livestock.
Josh Nichols
Awesomeness Engineer of Supreme Versatility II
Josh Nichols is in diamonds. It’s unclear what that means really, but he finds himself working on web development, web operations, scaling, support, and many other awesome things. He deeply believes that reading and writing open source projects and engaging in online and offline user groups and other communities are stops along the the path to true enlightenment. In that pursuit, he organized the illustrious Boston Ruby Group for three years and has authored and contributed several open source projects, most notably jeweler.
Ernie Miller
Lead Solutions Architect
Ernie has been coding professionally for over 15 years, using a variety of languages and frameworks. In his role as Senior Architect at his previous employer, he assisted multiple early to mid-stage startups with building and scaling their Rails applications. He is a Rails Core contributor, a contributor to ARel (the relational algebra library that underpins ActiveRecord), and the author of several popular Ruby gems that enhance ActiveRecord, including Squeel, Ransack, and Valium (the gem, not the sedative).
Travis Graham
Awesomeness Cloud Operations Engineer of Superb Versatility
Much like the early explorers relentlessly quested for a northwest passage to the riches of the Far East, Travis Graham seeks the riches of savings through automation. Its all part of his life’s quest to create a “Skynet-like” system (sans the whole unpleasant terminator- thingy) that serves our clients’ whims while fostering an endless “sky” of happy clouds filled with burgeoning applications.
Kevin Lawver
Magical Scaling Unicorn
Kevin worked at AOL for 13 years, building big-for-the-time web apps with all manner of technologies. He somehow managed to convince his boss to let him launch a Rails app, and the rest is history. He launched AOL’s first Rails app, then second, and then left the company to be the CTO at Music Intelligence Solutions where he built cool stuff with Rails, Sinatra, MySQL, MongoDB and some seriously awesome proprietary technology. And now he’s at Rails Machine to help customers scale their apps.