A-4 Stevie Clifton : How Ruby Enables Startup Success

Video

Date

September 6 (Mon.) 15:30-16:15

Room

Hall-A (International Conference Hall 3F)

Speaker

Stevie Clifton
(Animoto Productions)

Speaker’s profile

Stevie is co-founder and CTO of Animoto Productions, a VC-backed startup and web platform for automating video production. He is the primary inventor of Animoto’s patent filing of “Automatically Generating Audiovisual Works”, the core of Animoto’s Cinematic Artificial Intelligence engine. Animoto has won numerous web and technology awards including the SXSW Web Award for “Best Film/Video Website”, a Webby Award for “Best Services and Applications Website” and a recent Crunchies Award for “Best Design.”Stevie is a software engineer, systems architect and motion graphics artist. Prior to Animoto, he was the lead animator for Peter Jennings Productions, working on Peabody and Edward R. Murrow award winning documentaries. Stevie received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He also knows enough Japanese to be dangerous.

Presentation title

How Ruby Enables Startup Success

Presentation outline

Making the choice to go with Ruby was one of the best early decisions we made as a company. I’ll take you through some specific stories from the trenches of how Ruby has affected our business, through innovating and iterating on our core product, our systems architecture and using Ruby to scale to 5000 servers in 3 days on Amazon Web Services, and even our company hierarchy. I’ll also talk about how Ruby has helped us avoid some of the biggest mistakes made by web startups, and some of the problems we face specifically because we’re a Ruby shop.