Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ) is the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He also created the reference implementation, Matz’s Ruby Interpreter (MRI). Matz is the author of:
The Ruby Programming Language: Everything You Need to Know
Ruby in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference.
Matz is the manager of the Ruby trunk at ruby-lang.org
Matz is on Facebook, Linkedin, GitHub and Twitter.
Videos of Matz’ speeches: