Mark Bates

Mark Bates, Director of Applications for Second Rotation, is responsible for development of the company's customer facing applications, including Gazelle.com. He formerly served as director of development for Helium.com. Bates is Lead Developer of Mack, the Ruby distributed web application framework (mackframework.com). A leader in the Ruby distributed programming community, he recently presented Building Distributed Applications at RubyConf 2008, and regularly teaches classes on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has been developing web applications since 1996, and has created multiple open source projects, including Configatron, Cachetastic, and Genosaurus