Avi Bryant is the original creator of Seaside - an acclaimed Smalltalk Web framework.

He was active in the Ruby community.

The company he co-founded was acquired by Twitter. Then he worked in Tumblr ...

So in a nutshell he is well known in the startup world. Or at least this is my impression.. .

Came here to ask the same question. The name is familiar.

It might help to put in the link Avi Bryant, Creator of Seaside, joining Etsy.

My interaction with him is limited, but he's really sharp and a very nice guy in my experience. He's responsible, at least in some part if not mainly, for Twitter's adoption of Scala.

He's the original co-founder of Seaside, the Smalltalk framework. He then went to work on a startup called DabbleDB and at Twitter. He's like the Steve Albini of the tech world. Really brilliant guy. He also gave a talk that was called "Rails is obsolete(so's everything else)" in 2010 I think.Check out his talks here: http://blog.redtexture.net/2010/10/30/avi-bryants-presentati...