David Heinemeier Hansen net worth
David Heinemeier Hansson Net Worth: David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer who has a net worth of $40 million. David Heinemeier Hansson was born on October 15, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1999, Hansson founded and established a Danish online gaming news site and community called Daily Rush, which it operated until 2001. Hansson provided help with PHP coding to Basecamp co-founder Jason Fried, who was subsequently hired by Fried to build a web-based project management tool that eventually became 37signals’ Basecamp software.
To aid the development process, Hansson used the then little-known Ruby programming language to develop a custom Web framework. The framework he created was later released as an open source project called Ruby on Rails separate from the project management tool. In 2005, Hansson was awarded Hacker of the Year by Google and O’Reilly for his work on Ruby on Rails. After graduating from Copenhagen Business School with a BS in Computer Science and Business Administration, Hansen moved from Denmark to Chicago, IL (2005). David Heinemeier Hansson makes photography and racing his hobbies. He competed at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans for OAK Racing and won two seasons for Conquest Racing in the American Le Mans Series in a Morgan-Nissan P2. David Heinemeier Hansson joined OAK Racing full-time in 2013 and finished second five times, finishing second in the LMP2 Drivers Trophy.
