Meet the design, development & administration team at reinteractive.

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.

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.

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.

Bev has been working in an HR role for over 25 years. She thrives in helping others understand better their role within the group. She also has a Bachelor degree in Science for Computing and Accounting as well as a recent Diploma in Business.

In her free time she likes to spend time with her partner at the beach, travelling and shopping.

Chris has spent over 10 years in corporate IT roles across many domains. With a long ago but not forgotten background in the culinary arts, a Business Analyst and Quality mindset, his keen eye for detail and a passion for aesthetics makes him all about building wonderful solutions that deliver high value for end users.

Already fluent in 2 languages, he can also likely survive in the streets of Paris or Italy if the situation arose.

When not at work Chris enjoys all sorts of experiences new and old; he’s happiest whilst traveling the world or enjoying cinema, live music, photography and of course indulging in great culinary experiences, from high-end restaurants in the company of good friends to exploring new streets in Paris or Vietnam, enticing his palate as he roams along.

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.

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.

Carl 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!

Originally from the Philippines, Allan started his programming career back in 1999. He spent the next 10 years developing applications both for desktop and web using different technologies mainly PHP, Java, VB, C#, Perl and everything in between. Worked as a consultant for different clients in the Philippines for industries which cover telcos, banking, manufacturing, retail and transportation.

Allan moved to Australia in 2009 as a skilled migrant and worked initially as C# developer while in Perth. Then in 2012, he moved to Sydney where got a chance to work on a Ruby On Rails project. He found Rails to be a very popular framework in Australia and since he previously worked with Symfony (PHP) which was mostly inspired by Ruby On Rails, he found it easy to learn the new language. He spent the next 10 years using Ruby On Rails as the main language/framework of choice for web development projects. He still occasionally tinkers around with some other technologies such as Elixir/Phoenix, Go, and Python and picks interests in the development pipeline and dev automation tools.

When he is not on his computer, he loves riding a motorcycle, playing mobile games or going recreational fishing.

I started my career with PHP and started working with Ruby on Rails since 2015. During this journey I worked on different roles wearing different hats including backend developer, team lead and professional service engineer.

I always wanted to help others and found out programming as a weapon to conquer that. When things get automated saving lots of time from manual work, it always brings a smile on my face.

I live in Kathmandu, Nepal - a valley surrounded by the Himalayan mountains. I love travelling, spending time with nature and reading books.

Originally from Brasilia, Carol has been working with Ruby on Rails for 10 years. Now living in Sydney, she’s spent her time helping start-ups and local companies realise their software needs.

She has worked in all facets of software development, as a hands-on developer, managing the delivery of software projects, or as an independent consultant providing honest direction to keep things on-track.

When she’s not developing, you may find her in the kitchen, in the garden taking care of her herbs with her 2 boys constantly in tow.

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.

Charles started his software development career using Ruby on Rails from the get-go, and up to date is still passionate about building web applications with Ruby on Rails alongside Javascript for full stack applications.

He is one of our team of Senior Rails developers here at reinteractive.

Anita is a passionate marketing expert with over 18 years of experience crafting user-centered experiences across web design, UX design, and digital marketing. She leverages her expertise to help businesses of all sizes thrive online.

Anita’s background in UX design fuels her approach to marketing. She excels at understanding user needs and translating them into effective marketing strategies, including SEO, content creation, email marketing, and even PPC advertising.

Prior to joining reinteractive, Anita honed her skills in both large corporations and small businesses. She even founded her own marketing agency, demonstrating her entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen. This experience allows her to bring a unique perspective and a results-oriented mindset to every project.

Miko started his career working on the Ruby on Rails framework. He also adapted to learn Javascript, ReactJS, VueJS, Typescript, Laravel, and Hotwire throughout his years of work.

When offline, he enjoys spending his time watching, playing games, and hanging around with his family.

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.

Madhuri stumbled upon her passion for coding during college. And since then she has 7 years of development experience and project management. Through this time she has been fortunate enough to develop an affinity to adapt and evolve with business needs. She lives in the City of Temples, Patan, in Nepal.

She is passionate to bring tech and impact together. As a part of giving back to community initiatives, she actively shares and encourages Developer Culture, Women In STEM and Agile Culture in Nepal. She is also a member of Lean In Agile (LIA).

Cheerful, sweet and emphatic, she enjoys nature, people and peace. And of course, books!

Mohammad is a Software Engineer with over 17 years experience in development and delivery of Software Solutions to clients globally. His strength and interest is in programming, particularly with the Ruby on Rails framework for web and mobile applications.

He has experience ranging from startups to large corporate and institutional clients. His passion is learning new tech and expanding my knowledge.

Paulo began his career as a developer creating web applications with PHP and Laravel. He then transitioned into creating interfaces for Rails applications with Javascript and React.

He has been honing his skills with startups in Asia-Pacific and Europe, developing web applications and managing projects. He values good communication the most and believes that it is prerequisite to one’s growth and success.

Aside from software development, Paulo is also passionate about sports and music. He participates in competitive events for basketball, soccer, and ultimate. If all that isn’t enough, he also plays the guitar, with an aim to be half decent at playing the blues.

Richard has spent more than 15 years in software development with a range of technologies, mostly integrating with Ruby on Rails. Now he likes to focusing on ROR for it’s simplicity and the ability to rapidly deliver solutions to clients.

After spending a few years as a freelance developer based in Manila, Philippines, he decided it was more effective working as part of a team to get projects delivered for clients.

In his downtime he’s been known to hunt down the next great gastronomic experience town with his family.

I am passionate about Cloud Operations and Development and always looking to learn and work with emerging technologies. I live in Eldoret City, Kenya with my wife and two daughters.

In my free time I love going out with my daughters for picnics/walks or catching a local rugby/football match.

A passionate software developer and Ruby on Rails lover since 2010, when he decide to go deeper on this new framework, left behind the Java world.

An eternal learner, he’s versed in many programming languages and the the most modern stuff to easy your development cycle.

In his free time Rodrigo likes to play with his daughter, read a good book (with a mug of coffee) and play some video games.

Sudip started as a developer in 2018 with reactjs (web), react-native (mobile) and integrating with a Ruby on Rails back-end.

He lives in Hetauda, Nepal, just a few kilometers outside Kathmandu. He’s a passionate and dedicated developer who enjoys his work and loves to explore new places.

He started as a developer working with PHP and Progres 4GL. Just over 5 years ago he started actively working with Ruby on Rails and hasn’t looked back. He’s always looking for that wonderful junction where technology solves human problems.

Outside of work, he’s probably either watching or participating in some form of cricket or soccer. After the sun goes down, it’s books or movies.

Suman lives in Bhaktapur, Nepal - a small but incredibly beautiful country.

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.