Hello! My name is Vinicius Stock (Vini).

I’m a Staff Developer at Shopify, creator of the Ruby LSP and part of the Ruby developer experience team. Our team is focused on improving the experience of coding in Ruby, usually through language servers, debuggers and gradual typing. I’m passionate about tooling and believe it can contribute to Ruby’s goal of making developers happy by reducing cognitive load, bringing precise context where needed and providing confidence when making changes.

My journey with Ruby began in 2015 when I was introduced to the language and learned how to build products with Rails. As I spent more time coding in Ruby, I grew increasingly more curious about how it works under the hood and started attempting open source contributions to learn more about the implementation details.

In 2019, I joined Shopify as a product developer and slowly made my way towards the Ruby on Rails Infrastructure team, where I could dedicate myself full time to improving Ruby developer tools. If you’d like to know more about my work, be sure to check my talks, blog posts and GitHub profile. And if you’re interested in staying up to date with tooling I contribute to, consider following me on Twitter, where I frequently post about recent developments.