Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto
まつもと ゆきひろ
松本 行弘
Yukihiro Matsumoto at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo, 14 March 2007
Born (1965-04-14) 14 April 1965 (age 59)
Other namesMatz
Alma materUniversity of Tsukuba (BS)
Shimane University (PhD candidate)
Occupation(s)Computer scientist, programmer, author
Known forRuby
Children4
Matsumoto giving the keynote speech at EuRuKo 2011
Matsumoto accepting an award from the Free Software Foundation (founder Richard Stallman, right) in 2012

Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro, born 14 April 1965), also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.

As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014.[1]

  1. ^ "PRESSRELEASE – 株式会社VASILY(ヴァシリー)". vasily.jp.