About the Author

Mat Brown is a professional software engineer in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he has focused on building consumer-facing web and mobile applications for several companies; he currently works at Genius.

Mat is an enthusiastic contributor to the Ruby open source ecosystem. He is the maintainer of Cequel, a Ruby object mapper for Cassandra, and was the original author of Sunspot, a library that seamlessly integrates Solr search into Rails applications.