Biography
Luis Lavena
Collaboration is the key message with Luis. A leader in the open source community, Luis loves to bring people together to do extraordinary things.
In a world dominated by Macs, Luis is the maintainer of the One-Click Ruby Installer, the main Windows Ruby Distribution. So if you are a Ruby developer on Windows, you owe him!
As an advocate of Behavior Driven Development, he believes that business and technology should work closely together in order to identify real value.
Before joining AREA 17, Luis ran a technical consulting company specializing in software and hardware solutions for the video broadcasting industry. The high demands of that industry coupled with the need for non-stop service developed his “acquired taste” for sustainable systems.
Luis is a native of Tucumán, Argentina and studied Computer Science at the University of Tucumán. He splits his time between Tucumán and Paris with the occasional sejour in New York City.