our team

Mikel Lindsaar

Managing Director

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 the only Australian member of the Ruby on Rails commit team and is in the top 20 Ruby on Rails contributors world wide.

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

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

Jason Stirk

Development Manager

Jason is a seasoned developer, with over 7 years experience building a wide range of web applications. He found Ruby in late 2004, fell in love with its elegance, and met Ruby on Rails not long after.

Starting life as a System Administrator, Jason has a deep understanding of the entire web stack; from the server hardware, right up to the browser.

In his spare time he is a Scout leader, blogs sporadically, and writes simulation games that never get finished.

David Cruikshank

Designer

David is a Graphic Designer specialising in UI Design, and working with Ruby on Rails.

Trained in print media originally, David is able to bring a different and fresh perspective to web design, and delights in doing so. Having a different perspective is the key to creating designs that pop. David came across to Rails recently and loves being able to leverage this power to create code-compact, stunning web designs.

In his spare time he likes to take photographs, draw, read and make bad jokes.

Glenn Davy

Consultant

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.

Chris Herring

Consultant

Chris has been hacking on Ruby for almost 5 years, in that time releasing applications for numerous businesses, and unable to get enough of it can often be found doing this in his spare time as well.

When taking a keyboard break you will probably find him playing soccer or on his playstation.

Ben Wiseley

Consultant

Ben recently relocated to Australia from Seattle, WA, USA to work for reInteractive begrudgingly giving up life on his sailboat for a flat in Coogee.

He got his start doing web development very early, developing his first web site for a MIT think tank in 1992. From there he did frustrating stint as a Windows developer before moving to Rails full time in 2006.

When not programming he enjoys piano, cello, paragliding and trying not to drown, be eaten or stung while learning to surf. He has a strong dislike for long pants and shoes.

Rimian Perkins

Consultant

Rimian has been a web developer and consultant since the mid nineties and has worked for many well known brands or agencies in Australia and The UK.

He has been working with Rails for a few years after becoming frustrated with PHP and Drupal. He really likes BDD and the importance Rails developers place on writing tests. Rimian also likes writing CSS frameworks with Sass.

Rimian's twitter feed should not be taken seriously.

Geoff Hodgson

Consultant

Geoff's background in network support and admin roles gave him an empathy with the end user, and understanding how important usability and stability are to any system.

In 2008, Geoff found Rails and was happy to become part of the vibrant and forward-thinking community, finding a way to produce products that people could really use.

He recently returned to Sydney from a six month trip throughout South America, when he is not machete-ing through jungles, you can find him on the basketball court or snowboarding, generally not at the same time.

Warren Seen

Consultant

Based in the city of Launceston in Northern Tasmania, Warren has a long history of working remotely as a software developer with teams around the world.

These days, he specialises in Rails development and although in the past he has worked with a range of different languages, it's always been with an eye towards the web.

Away from work, Warren likes to spend his free time riding his bike, running, or just chasing around after his young kids.

Sean Geoghegan

Consultant

Sean has worked as a developer for large goverment organisations, small San Fransciso startups and medium sized consultancies. He loves the beauty of Ruby and the power of Rails and the confidence provided by a well built test suite.

He lives in Adelaide with his wife and two kids. When he isn't working or playing with his kids he likes to pretend he still has time for comic books and video games.

Tim Hemi

Consultant

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.