Andrei Bondarev

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Ruby developer based in South Florida. Started his career 13 years ago building Rails applications for the US Department of Health and Human Services (public-facing apps for millions of consumers), then joined USA Today where Sean Schofield (original author of Spree) hired him. Creator/maintainer of langchainrb, an open-source Ruby gem for building LLM-powered applications. Presented 'Building LLM powered applications in Ruby' at wroclove.rb 2024. Calls himself 'your Ruby AI guy'.

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South Florida, USA

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13+

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Building LLM powered applications in Ruby talk

Andrei delivered this single-speaker talk.

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Ruby tool

13+ years of Ruby/Rails experience.

level: expert

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Ruby tool

Closes the talk arguing Ruby's pragmatism and OOP principles make it a good fit for LLM apps.

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Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby resource

Cited as an example of the strong OOP mental models in the Ruby community.

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US Department of Health and Human Services company

Andrei's first Rails job, building public-facing apps for millions of consumers.

role: Rails developer

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USA Today company

Worked on USA Today's Rails team after being hired by Sean Schofield.

role: Rails developer

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langchainrb tool

Creator and maintainer of the langchainrb Ruby gem.

role: creator/maintainer

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Nerds and Threads project

Built the Nerds and Threads demo AI assistant for the talk.

role: author

Provenance

Created: 2026-04-17 16:16 seed
Last updated in: Building LLM-Powered Applications in Ruby — Andrei Bondar... 2026-04-17 23:20
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