James Lennon Engels Golick (October 4, 1985 - December 26, 2014) was a software engineer and notable open source software contributor who specialized in systems programming and Ruby on Rails. He was the Chief Technical Officer at Normal, co-founder of packagecloud.io, co-host of the Real Talk podcast, and previously the Chief Technical Officer of FetLife.
Golick's prominence as a software engineer began when he wrote the quitebacktrace and resource_controller software libraries for the Ruby programming language. He was a prominent speaker at several conferences around the world, on an array of topics in computer science and engineering. He is also well known for performance improvements made to , and for improvements to MRI's method caching system.
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