Yukihiro Matsumoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Japanese computer scientist

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1965

Place of Birth: Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, programmer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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Yukihiro Matsumoto (????????, Matsumoto Yukihiro, a.k.a.
Matz, born 14 April 1965) is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI).
His demeanor has brought about a motto in the Ruby community: "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN. As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco.
He is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organisation in Rakuten Inc.
He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc.
starting in June 2014.