Tom Preston-Werner

Profile

Tom is building Preston Werner Ventures and RedwoodJS. Tom was also cofounder of GitHub, on the board of Chatterbug, Netlify, and Hack Club.

• Jekyll: A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).
• Semantic Versioning: A meaningful method for incrementing version numbers.
• TOML: Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language.
• God: Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility.
• Chronic: Ruby natural language date/time parser.
• TomDoc: Code documentation for humans.
• ProxyMachine: Layer 7 routing proxy in Ruby with Event Machine.
• Gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
• Grit: Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).
• Ernie: Ruby/Erlang Hybrid BERT-RPC server.