---
type: guest
cover: 'https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/main-codingcatdev-photo/podcast-guest/mojombo'
name: Tom Preston-Werner
published: published
slug: tom-preston-werner
start: January 1, 2000
socials:
  github: https://github.com/mojombo
  linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mojombo/
  twitter: 'https://twitter.com/mojombo'
websites:
  - https://tom.preston-werner.com/
---

### Profile

Tom is building Preston Werner Ventures and RedwoodJS. Tom was also cofounder of GitHub, on the board of Chatterbug, Netlify, and Hack Club.

- [Jekyll:](https://jekyllrb.com) A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).
- [Semantic Versioning:](https://semver.org) A meaningful method for incrementing version numbers.
- [TOML:](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml) Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language.
- [God:](https://github.com/mojombo/god/) Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility.
- [Chronic:](https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/) Ruby natural language date/time parser.
- [TomDoc:](http://tomdoc.org) Code documentation for humans.
- [ProxyMachine:](https://github.com/mojombo/proxymachine/) Layer 7 routing proxy in Ruby with Event Machine.
- [Gollum:](https://github.com/gollum/gollum/) A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
- [Grit:](https://github.com/mojombo/grit/) Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).
- [Ernie:](https://github.com/mojombo/ernie/) Ruby/Erlang Hybrid BERT-RPC server.
