Hartl, Michael

Michael Hartl is a programmer and entrepreneur. Before discovering Rails, he used Zope/Python in a startup he cofounded to produce fantasy sports websites, including BracketManager, at the time the number one independent NCAA Basketball Tournament website. Previously, he was a physics instructor at the California Institute of Technology, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also served as Caltech's editor for "The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition" (Addison-Wesley). He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a Ph.D. in