Speaker: Getty Ritter
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Ruby Infrastructure Engineer @Stripe
Getty has been an infrastructure engineer Stripe for over 5 years, working on the Ruby platform and related tooling to support engineers working at Stripe. He is passionate about finding ways to maintain a high quality and incentivize clean code without sacrificing developer velocity. Prior to his work at Stripe, Getty worked for several years doing research and implementation work at Galois with a focus on programming language theory and compiler implementation.
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Session
Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases
At Stripe, we manage a codebase of tens of millions of lines of Ruby. Like any large codebase, people have no shortage of complaints about it, and it's our job to fix those complaints.