Eloy Durán joins the RubyMotion team!

We are extremely honored to announce a new and very special addition to our team. Eloy Durán has accepted to join us at HipByte as our 3rd full-time developer!

Many of you may already be familiar with Eloy. He is the creator and one of the maintainers of CocoaPods, the best way to manage library dependencies in Cocoa projects. A long time Ruby and Cocoa-ist, Eloy joined the RubyCocoa project in 2006 and later on the MacRuby project in 2008. Eloy then got to work with RubyMotion since it was still under heavy development and he also contributed its functional testing framework.

When he does not make computers do things, Eloy likes to make music, play video games and gesticulate. He lives with his lovely wife and cat and dog on a canal houseboat in beautiful Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Getting Eloy on the team is a special milestone for us, as we have personally worked with him for a very long time. He was naturally one of the best candidates we could think of to join us on this journey and we have no doubts he will be a great addition. Eloy will be contributing full-time to the RubyMotion toolchain by working on the existing feature-set as well as some new functionality that we have in the pipeline.

As you may already know, CocoaPods is a crucial piece of infrastructure in the RubyMotion ecosystem, as it provides a convenient bridge to the open source Cocoa community. We are therefore also happy to mention that Eloy will get to work on CocoaPods on company time. HipByte however does not intend to change the way CocoaPods is developed and CocoaPods will remain an open source community project.

Eloy comes to us after a 5 years tenure at Fingertips, a design and development consulting agency that does not need to be introduced and that we highly recommend.

HipByte is deliberately 100% bootstrapped without outside funding and our revenues are growing every month, thanks to your support and the licenses you have purchased. The direct result is that we get to grow the team organically while strengthening our commitment that we are really here for the long term.