And so it begins. Welcome to the maiden posting for the Hungry Machine blog. We’re 4 guys bringing our expertise in Ruby On Rails and experience from AOL, Revolution Health, and Blockbuster together to build some great new products and services. For those of you that read us at RevolutionOnRails, we have a new addition, Tim O’Shaughnessy, who will be handling a bit more of the product-side of the house for us.
We plan to continue exploring Rails, sharing our expertise with others via this blog and by releasing more plugins, and diving into new areas and applications, ranging from our continued development of Facebook applications to entirely new fields.
Lastly… why Hungry Machine? Well, we think it represents our mentality and effort we’ll put into our everyday activities… we’re hungry for success. Check back often to see what we’re up to.
Who we are:
Aaron Batalion: Aaron has been banging the Rails drum since 2005 and has been deep in the Rails community ever since. A lead portal architect for RevolutionHealth.com, Aaron was also a portal architect for Blockbuster.com.
Eddie Frederick: Eddie was a RoR lead at Revolution Health and has become one of the leading developers in the Facebook space, authoring applications with well over 1M users. He specializes in creating end-to-end user experiences from deployment to application UI.
Tim O’Shaughnessy: An entrepreneur at heart, Tim led the Product Development Department – Consumer Products at Revolution Health before helping found Hungry Machine. Tim also has has launched successful products at AOL and enjoys long walks on the beach.
Val Aleksenko: Val brings over 17 years of software development experience to Hungry Machine. Val’s like MacGyver but with software; give him a stack, a deployment script, and a Red Bull and watch him go.
