Landon Gray

Speaking & conversations

Software, production AI, and the people who make it work.

I speak about building and evaluating AI systems, bringing AI into existing teams, and what software engineering practice can teach us about both.

Topics to explore

• Moving agents and retrieval systems from a demo into production.
• Designing evaluations with the people who understand the domain.
• Helping teams adopt AI through useful tools, feedback, and clear ownership.
• Building AI applications in Ruby and understanding the architecture underneath them.

Selected talks

• Forecasting the Future: Machine Learning for Weather in Native RubyRailsConf · 2023
• Ruby on RAG: Building AI Use Cases for Fun and ProfitMadison Ruby · 2024
• An Intro to Machine Learning with RubyBlue Ridge Ruby · 2023
• Building an AI Community with RubyFlower City AI · 2023
• The Missing Piece: Tooling for Robust AI in RubyRuby Warsaw · 2023
• Surely You Must Be Joking, Jupyter Notebooks with Ruby!Boulder Ruby · 2023

Speaking and community

My first talk was Forecasting the Future: Machine Learning for Weather in Native Ruby at RailsConf 2023 in Atlanta. I pitched one talk to two conferences and got into both, then spent weeks of evenings turning a weather-prediction model into pure Ruby. The room filled and people were turned away at the door.

I helped plan RubyConf 2023 in San Diego as a member of the Ruby Central program committee, selecting conference track topics and reviewing Call for Papers submissions.

Short bio

Landon Gray is Director of AI & Infrastructure at DealMaker. With a background in software consulting, he works across production AI, evaluation, and organizational adoption. He is building Shinkiro, writes Landon Notes, and founded the RubyAI community.

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