Jimmy is a programmer from San Francisco, CA. He has worked in several roles in software development, including front and back end web development, operations, and quality assurance. An active member of the free software community, Jimmy is known for his work on Lita, a popular chat bot framework for Ruby. Jimmy has given talks about a wide variety of subjects including Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Unix, testing, concurrency, and ChatOps, the practice of using a chat bot as the primary interface for automation.