Aaron Patterson
Ruby and Rails core developer known as tenderlove; a Nokogiri author; works at Shopify.
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- Aaron Patterson is an American programmer known online as tenderlove.
- Patterson has been on the Ruby on Rails core team from 2011.
- Patterson is one of the authors of Nokogiri, the Ruby XML and HTML library.
- Patterson works at Shopify and is based in Seattle as of 2026.
Key facts
- Rails
- Ruby on Rails core team, from 20111
- Nokogiri
- One of its four listed authors2
- Employer
- Shopify (as of 2026)3
- Based
- Seattle (as of 2026)3
- Blog
- Tenderlove Making3
Roles
Part of
- ShopifyOrganization
engineer (as of 2026) source on Shopify
Links
Sources
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