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 over 16 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 eperience 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 is passionate about bird dogs. He trains and competes German Short-haired Pointers that earn national ranking and championship titles.
Jesse Newland
Chief Technical Officer
Jesse has 6 years of experience in software development, engineering, systems integration, full lifecycle development and deployment of web applications and IT infrastructure. He graduated from The University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from the Terry College of Business. He worked for as the Student Director of Online Operations for University of Georgia’s Student Newspaper, as a Web Engineer for Digital Insight, and finally as the IT Director for LexBlog, with quite a bit of freelance Ruby on Rails work sprinkled in between. He joined Rails Machine in 2008.
When Jesse is not attempting to automate himself out a job using Ruby, Puppet, and Moonshine, you’ll find him playing guitar, drums, or disc golf.