The reinteractive Team

Mikel is well known in the Ruby and Rails community as a blogger, the author of the Ruby E-Mail handling library, mail, and for his extensive work on Rails ActionMailer component. Mikel is a member of the Ruby on Rails commit team and is in the top Ruby on Rails contributors world wide. He is also a past elected Committee Member of the Australian Web Industry Association.

He decided to create reinteractive in 2010, having developed Ruby on Rails applications since 2006.

Outside of Rails and work, he does quite a lot of pro bono volunteer work and likes flying his radio controlled helicopters at crazy speeds, often into walls.

Read more about Mikel here.

Kane is an experienced General Manager and project manager having run eight businesses and managed numerous projects across many different industries. He graduated from the Deakin University MBA in 2014 and was awarded the Brookes Scholars Medal for top student.

Kane lectures and has developed courses for the Deakin University Business School. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Grow Foundation, a charity that supports children with special needs. In his spare time, Kane loves spending time with his three young girls.

Originally a desktop applications programmer, Ben found he preferred the fast-feedback cycle of web programming. Beginning with perl in the dying days of last century, he passed through the trials of ASP and survived the PHPocalypse until finding relief in the awesomeness of Ruby and Rails in 2010.

Happiest when solving problems, he aims to delight users with his epic attention to detail, whether it be the thoughtful UX or the well-tested code-base beneath.

When not solving problems or crafting frankly-over-the-top sentences, he also enjoys cooking, running, listening to podcasts, and spending time with his wife and 5 (srsly?!) kids. Oh and he quite enjoys ascii-emoji too - ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Prior to working at reinteractive, Errol spent 15 years in Web Development with a variety of different technologies, for the most part running his own business. His experience exposed him to diverse web technologies and helping clients find simple and efficient solutions to their needs. This wealth of experience has given him the breadth of understanding he brings to his clients.

He's a Melbourne native and is fiercely loyal to every bit of it, the coffee, the culture, the footy and the traffic.

When he's not at work, Errol spends his time with his wife and two young girls, or helping out in his community.

Monique has worked in the corporate IT space for the past 10 years and has over 18 years’ experience in marketing and team management.

She is passionate about helping clients achieve exactly what they need - without compromise.

Monique is an animal lover, avid movie watcher and on her days off she enjoys swimming and indulging in retail therapy.

Glenn's been producing database apps for over a decade in a range of environments. The last 5 years however he's been specialising in web applications, with penchant for Ruby as a language, and preference for Rails as a tool.

Having worked previously at Engine Yard supporting Rails customers across the entire stack, he's able to help not only building your app, but also configuring and scaling it.

Virginia has spent many years working in the not-for-profit sector with other organizations, forming alliances and helping allied causes.

When she's not hard at work, you will probably find her involved in social causes like drug education and crusading to stop single-use plastic.

Originally from Australia, Gavin has also spent quite a few years in the US and Canada and now hails from Western Australia. He’s spent the past 18 years perfecting his skills in print, graphic design and marketing in North America and Australia.

When he’s not helping reinteractive plan for world domination, he might be out taking photos or checking out what WA has to offer.

Wayne is a serial entrepreneur who has worked in and around both eCommerce and bricks and mortar stores. Wayne has conceived and built more than three brands including creating them with a national presence. He knows both the requirements and details needed to sell online and in person.

When he’s not at work he enjoys spending time checking out the latest art exhibit with his wife or spending time with his two daughters.

Daniel has a passion for software development and has been working with the Salesforce platform for 5 years as a Functional Consultant, Developer and Solution Architect.

His focus is using the software development life-cycle to understand the business purpose and help organisations re-think and re-shape their business systems.

Daniel is a Certified Salesforce Administrator, Certified Sales Cloud Consultant, Certified Service Cloud Consultant, Certified CPQ Specialist and Platform Developer I. He has wide experience as a functional consultant and project manager across B2B and B2C verticals including national medical service providers, retail food chains and major consumer retail outlets, along with multiple successful Salesforce CPQ implementations.

When he’s not working, he’s working – on his hobby farm. Dividing his time between 3 dogs, 5 cats, 5 sheep, 1 ram, 23 pigs, a koala and two carpet pythons or possibly renovating his house.

Kerry is a Technology Advisor based in Adelaide. He has a wealth of experience ranging from building technology startups through to consulting to Fortune 500 companies. He is a MBA qualified technologist and experienced director who delivers a unique perspective to business and technology problems.

When not at work, Kerry can be found tending to his vineyard or enjoying family time at the river. He is also a keen pilot and loves being able to fly whenever time permits.

Sarah has worked in and around accounts for 15 years and has diverse experience in a variety of industries. This experience has spanned managing operations and right through to sales and other support functions, including work in the not-for-profit sector.

Originally from Country NSW she loves animals and was a competitive horse rider. She is passionate about staying healthy and fit and traveling all around the Globe. And, she's fluent in Japanese after living there for a year.

Ace is a developer from the Philippines, focusing on Ruby and JS since 2011.

He firmly believes that the developer’s role, first and foremost, is to solve problems, be it in code, in duct tape, or in plain old pieces of paper. He lives by the values of simplicity, sustainability and intentional growth.

In his spare time, he likes taking long walks, writing, reading sci-fi/technical books and if his social bar is up for it, spending time with his friends.

Anto is a self taught Ruby on Rails Developer with a strong background in Solution Design and Architecture. He considers himself a DevOps Junkie with bias toward in Container architecture and microservices. He was born in India and moved to Melbourne in 2015.

When Anto is not working he likes to spend time either with his wife or smashing out a tune in Beat Saber on his Oculus Quest VR headset. He also enjoys travel and taking his motorcycle out for a run.

Carl Neumann has a rich and diverse history in the arts. He’s talented in creative and graphic design, painting, drawing, photography, copywriting and music journalism.

He’s created websites, brochures, logos, videos and photographs musicians and actors for quite a few well-known entertainment and music industry labels including Rolling Stone and HEAVY Mag.

When he’s not obsessing over fonts types for a website, you’ll probably find him standing in the front row or the corporate box at a live music event!

David learnt Ruby on Rails while working on numerous e-commerce sites built with the Spree open source framework package - the most popular open source e-commerce solution built with Ruby on Rails.

When not working on professional projects he tries his hand at making games to sharpen his programming skills.

Erwin has been a full-time developer for 9 years. After just 3 months working in PHP he shifted to Ruby development, fell in love with it and the rest is history. It's the only programming language that he says he will never get tired of working with.

He also likes spending time with his 2 dogs and taking them on long walks.

Estevão is a software developer from Rio de Janeiro, currently living in Brisbane. He's passionate about creating websites since the Geocities times circa 1998 when he wrote his first online videogames guides.

Now he loves adding javascript front end frameworks to his Ruby on Rails applications and basically working in the entire stack, from the configuration to the pixel perfect css.

When he's not working, he can usually be found practicing the piano, playing old arcade games or spending time with his family :)

Glen is a software developer from New Zealand, currently living in Melbourne. He grew up in and around Christchurch, working with PHP and ColdFusion while studying for a degree in ICT. He moved up to Wellington after the quakes, and worked as a Rails developer for the New Zealand and Australian energy industry, eventually becoming a contractor and moving to Melbourne on a contract, and deciding to stay.

When not still working in the early hours of the morning and chipping away at his personal coding projects, you can usually find Glen orienteering, rifle shooting, reading classic science fiction novels, listening to classical crossover and jazz music, using too many commas, and pretending not to be watching Australia's Next Top Model.

George is based in Manilla. He completed a Degree in Computer Science and while studying, developed a passion for object-oriented software design. While he worked primarily with Java applications while studying, his first professional project was built on Ruby (and Rails.) The simplicity and flexibility of Ruby convinced him to change his primary work focus.

While he has experience in PHP, Elixir and Phoenix, his heart keeps migrating back to Ruby.

When he’s not working he enjoys listening and playing music, and spending time with his wife and 2 children.

Originally from Honduras, but now a native of Sydney, Gerson has been a freelance front-end developer for over 4 years, specialising in WordPress themes and SEO. Mainly focusing on developing websites based in JavaScript and PHP he likes to start from scratch and develop custom features.

He prides himself on attention to detail and getting the user experience just right in the sites and features he’s designed.

After work, he’s a big fan of grunge, metal, blues and lo-fi beats. He’s been playing guitar since he was 12 years old and isn’t shy performing in front of an audience.

Originally from Europe, Ildikó is a UX/Interaction Designer based in Sydney. She has nearly a decade of experience in UX and Interaction Design, acquired through working on a variety of projects that include custom-built online experiences, social platform engagement, ecommerce, mobile and complex back office solutions.

She's a highly analytical person with a strong desire to develop engaging, intuitive user experiences and would optimise everything from cluttered websites to the position of a poorly placed coffee maker in the office.

When she's not doing anything UX related, you're likely to find her travelling, travel planning, taking pictures of native Australian parrots or trying her hand at learning a new language.

Israel discovered Ruby on Rails when he started as a web developer, loved it and has used it as his main development framework ever since!

He spends his free time free time exploring the latest technology in the front-end web development world and improving his DevOps skills.

Well, that's if he's not gaming or catching up on any of a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows.

Joelle is a Designer and Front end Developer specialising in UI/UX based in San Francisco. She has nearly 10 years experience in the industry, with a strong background in high-end motion graphics and animation. Joelle holds function, clarity and human-centered design principles in the highest regard and loves the power, flexibility and beauty that Ruby on Rails offers.

In her free time, Joelle enjoys hiking, surfing, listening to podcasts, playing guitar and banjo, and listening to blues, soul, and folk music.

Jonathan is a Rails developer based in Hamilton, New Zealand. He began his career as a C/C++ developer but has since seen the light and transitioned to Ruby on Rails.

3D printing is his main hobby but lately all his spare time is taken up with being a first-time dad to a 10 month old.

Matenia is a Sydney-based developer with a passion for elegant, well-tested code. Once introduced to Ruby on Rails, she was hooked, and spent the next 5 years honing her development skills, learning related languages, frameworks and working with the full stack.

When Matenia's not hard at work, you can find her contributing to open source projects, attending, mentoring and presenting at various community events.

Marc is a self-taught Rails developer. He dropped out of college to work as a photographer and creative designer but in 2013 he moved into the tech space. He has also been found dabbling with React JS and React Native.

Working in a few start-ups was what drew him into software development - most of the time as a technical co-founder. He considers these endeavours a great learning experience and he gained invaluable knowledge in building apps from the ground up with small teams. (And knowing how to brew the worst coffee in the world.)

Outside of work, if you don't find him trying to mate his opponents on Chess.com, you'll see him playing pranks on his daughter or having a glass of whiskey in a speakeasy in Manila.

Nimrod is a Melbourne based designer and developer with 20 years experience in the IT industry. Self taught and drawing from a wide pool of hands on experience, he endeavours to add value to business and users through the practical application of design. Nim's slightly obsessive curiosity with user centred design isn't limited to technology, bleeding out into everything around him from urban planning to cupboard handle design.

When he isn't working, among other things you'll find him using his feet to explore the world, catching a (usually sci-fi) movie, playing indie video games, or bent over his sketchbook.

Raymond is a self taught web developer from Central Luzon, Philippines.

He learnt his trade working for small companies and start-ups with most responsibilities from development to deployment falling squarely upon his shoulders. This environment created challenges helping him upskill, learning new technologies while working until he found Ruby on Rails and has loved it since.

When he's not coding, you'll likely find him in the back yard, caring for his vegetable garden.

Roberto is a self taught Web Operations Specialist, living in Panama City, Panama. He has been working with servers and supporting web infrastructure for over a decade now and is a key player in our follow-the-sun support abilities offered by OpsCare^®.

When he is not online and studying to learn a new platform or technology he is out with his wife and two daughters conquering the world.

Tian is a full stack web developer in Sydney with a great passion for delivering interactive user experience and pixel-perfect implementation. In 2011, after working with different programming languages including Java, PHP and C#, Tian made the choice to work in Ruby, and started to enjoy the beauty and elegance brought by the language.

When he is away from his keyboard, you might find him on the basketball court or fishing on the coast.

Tim started his career in software development while in the New Zealand military in 1989 - projects included Artillery fire prediction systems, Meteorological zone tracking, Land survey functions. At that time he thought rubies were things you used to bribe your girlfriend with and rails was the the hardest thing on the obstacle course.

After leaving the military he fulfilled his desire to fly helicopters and attained his Private Helicopter Pilot License.

Tim then moved into the market research arena and lead a team that developed and maintained in-house software to administer market research projects and mystery shopping surveys. In 2009 Tim found the magic of Ruby on Rails was and has been developing with it since and never looking back. He is very passionate about software development and the shift to Ruby has fuelled that passion.

Studied Bioinformatics at uni but found the Biology side kind of boring and focused on the computing side. He first started programming something useful in Perl then moved onto PHP and web development before discovering Ruby in 2011.

He self taught himself Ruby while trying to learn French and live in France, which was where he scored his first Ruby job with a small start-up in Paris.

Outside of work you’ll probably find him with his kids on a bike ride, going on long runs, playing golf or just hanging out with family and friends.

Todd started out in electronics retail in Alice Springs before moving to Perth where he ran a trade business. He developed his own apps for his business and enjoyed it so much, he thought, "I should do this for a job".

He is now a certified Salesforce Administrator and enjoys creating software solutions that really make a difference for businesses.

When not in front of a screen, you will find him out fixing fences that his pet cows have destroyed.

He found his love for software early on - but somehow ended up working as a Nurse. But much like any person with a passion, he made his way back into software development – teaching himself the tricks of the trade.

Weto focuses on building Web Applications, with Ruby and Javascript. More than perfection, he values finding the sweet spot between agility, practicality and maintainability. As a team member, more than being right, he values open communication, honest feedback, and teamwork.

Weto is based in the Phillipines. When he's not hard on work (or hard at play on his Video Games), you will likely find him having a good bowl of ramen.