Eileen M. Uchitelle spends her days working on performance and security at Basecamp; or as you probably know it better, the place Ruby on Rails was born. She accidentally started contributing to open source after giving a talk on some problems with Active Record. Aaron Patterson was there and told her “fix it yourself” (not really). When she’s not making your life easier by improving Active Record, Eileen enjoys craft beer and hiking in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their dog.