Nick Gauthier is Founder and CTO at Nomics. He is a web freelancer, consultant, and trainer specializing in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (especially Backbone.js and jQuery), and PostgreSQL. In 2011 he co-wrote Recipes with Backbone with Chris Strom and in 2012 he wrote Mobile Web Patterns with Backbone.js. Nick has spoken at a bunch of Ruby and Open-Source conferences including RailsConf, WindyCityRuby, GoRuCo, Ruby Hoedown, Lone Star Ruby Conf, and RubyNation, and he's always interested in speaking about web development, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Backbone, and other topics. Nick is currently working on MeetSpace a video conferencing web app for distributed teams.