Danish programmer David Heinemeier Hansson has an estimated net worth of $30 million in 2012. Hansson is best recognized as the creator of Instiki wiki and Ruby on Rails web development framework. He is also one of the partners at 37signals, a web-based software development firm.

David Heinemeier Hansson was born on October 15, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a graduate of Copenhagen Business School where he completed his Computer Science and Business Administration degree. He is currently married to Jamie Heinemeier Hansson. In addition to being a software programmer, David Hansson considers race car driving as one of his hobbies.

It was in 1999 when he founded and developed the Daily Rush which is a Danish online gaming news community and website. He ran the website until 2011. His works on Ruby on Rails earned him a Hacker of the Year award by O'Reilly and Google.