About

Yaroslav (Yaro) Shmarov is an experienced Ruby on Rails developer, speaker, host of @SupeRails youtube channel and Friendly Show podcast

Apart of coding, Yaroslav has a passion for sharing knowledge and giving back to the community.

Yaroslav lives in Chernihiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 with his wife and puppy.

In his free time he likes writing, windsurfing 🏄‍♂️, hiking with his dog 🐶 and excelling his language skills.

Polyglot #

Yaroslav proficiently speaks six languages:

1. 🇺🇦 Ukrainian
2. 🇬🇧 English
3. 🇩🇪 German
4. 🇪🇸 Spanish
5. 🇫🇷 French
6. 🇵🇱 Polish

Guest appearances #

• Speech at Rails World in 2023: Yaroslav Shmarov - Hotwire Cookbook: Common Uses, Essential Patterns & Best Practices - Rails World
• Speech on WrocloveRB 2022: Yaroslav Shmarov - 18 months of using hotwire and viewcomponent in production - wroc_love.rb 2022
• Blogpost on Bearer.com: Infinite scrolling pagination with Rails, Hotwire, and Turbo
• Blogpost on Bearer.com: How to build modals with Hotwire (Turbo Frames + StimulusJS)
• Ruby Rogues podcast: Enhancing Ruby on Rails with Hotwire: Turbo, Stimulus, and Strata for Efficiency - RUBY 615

Beliefs. Life, love, death #

• Is life worth living, if you have nothing to die for? When I was a kid, I dreamt of living forever and thought that there’s nothing more important than life. My life. Now, as a husband, parent and citizen of a country fighting for survival, I have grown up. I believe that freedom, love and family are more important than life. There are things worth dying for. That makes life worth living.
• Without knowing of death you wouldn’t value the time you were given to live.
• Sacrificing freedom for “peace” is the path to slavery. That’s why we fight. Stand with Ukraine.
• Ideas are worth nothing. Implementation is everything.