Ivan has been developing C# for the last 6 years and Ruby for the last 3 years.  Ivan is also active in the community and started the .NET user group chapter in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Later he started an architects lunch meeting in Wellington, New Zealand.

Ivan's background is primarily on the internet where he has been active for the biggest part of the last 10 years. He's currently writing a book for Manning on IronRuby (IronRuby in Action). For this book he has written an mvc framework for creating WPF/Silverlight applications.