Name: Kevin Menard
Handles: "nirvdrum" or "kmenard"
Contact: blog@kevin.nirvdrum.com
I'm a staff engineer at Shopify where I work on the TruffleRuby implementation of the Ruby programming language. I care a lot about performance and love being able to make that a core feature of dynamic language runtimes.
I've historically been quite active in a variety of open source projects. I'm a member of the Apache Software Foundation and was an active member of the core Selenium team for several years. I still contribute to projects where I can, but I no longer spend the entirety of my weekends on open source projects. I've taken to 3D printing and electrical engineering, in addition to playing (poorly) drums and guitar.
