Irina Nazarova came to Rails by an unusual route: a computer science degree, a stint in finance, then web development through WordPress and WooCommerce, PHP, and eventually Ruby on Rails.
The conversation covers how Evil Martians works from the inside, transparency and teamwork included, what makes Rails a good fit for startups, and what open source contributions do for a consultancy. It also gets into how the company balances client work with its own products, and ends on the first San Francisco Ruby Conference.
