Nate Berkopec

nateberkopec.com/now.html

Location:

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Professional title:

Ruby on Rails perf specialist

What do you do?

I make Ruby on Rails web applications faster.

Why?

I'm an optimizer. I take big, fuzzy problems, wrangle them into discrete requirements, and then tweak and tweak and tweak until the system is running smoothly.

What should we read?

Goodhart's Law Isn't As Useful As You Might Think at Commoncog