Tobias Lutke – Mentor

Tobias Lütke (born 1980 in Koblenz) is a German programmer and creator of the popular Shopify e-commerce platform and Typo weblog engine. He also co-founded jadedPixel, a technology company in Ottawa, Canada where he now lives.

Tobi has been part of the Ruby on Rails core team since its inception in 2005 and has released a series of popular open source projects such as Liquid template engine and ActiveMerchant, two core technologies of the Shopify project and smaller gems like Paypal-lib, login_generator and Hieraki.