Andre Lewis is a former Accenture consultant turned Ruby on Rails expert. He likes thinking about problems holistically, from business processes through usability considerations to database schemas, and has architected web applications supporting millions of pageviews per day. He is a mapping and geo-location guru, and the author of Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax, published by Apress.

Andre now runs Scout, and has been instrumental in the marketing and fostering of several relationships with major hosting companies to monitor large-scale infrastructures.

Andre contributes to the community through open source projects and talks. He has spoken at RailsConf and SD Forum, and he frequents Bay Area technology and entrepreneurial groups.