Nathaniel Talbott Founder and Developer
Terralien is the brainchild of Nathaniel Talbott. With 5+ years of Ruby and nearly 2 years of Ruby on Rails experience, Nathaniel is an early adopter with a broad background in agile development methodologies. Nathaniel frequently speaks at Ruby conferences and is author of test/unit and several other Ruby libraries. He regularly blogs over at blog.talbott.ws.
Matthew Bass Developer
Matthew has been developing software for nearly a decade now, and has been enjoying the freedom of Ruby for much of that time. He moonlights as an entrepreneur by “homesteading,” building small revenue-generating Rails applications. He introduced one such application, Teascript, at RailsConf 2007. He is a member of the Streamlined core team and a committer on several other open source projects. Matthew blogs over at matthewbass.com.
Daniel Beach Designer
Daniel’s a well-rounded designer: he does everything from logo design (http://opensails.org/) to IA and wireframing. He regularly and reliably cranks out amazing designs for the projects he’s on, and his portfolio does a great job showcasing his skill.
Ryan Daigle Developer
Author of the popular “What’s New in Edge Rails” series of posts at Ryan’s Scraps, Ryan is a versatile developer with an intimate understanding of what’s going on under the hood of Rails. Add in his many years of consulting experience and you have a pragmatic developer who’s a huge asset to every project he works on.
Michael Hale System Administrator & Developer
Michael is a system administrator who’s also a software developer, which means he understands the software he’s administering, and he wields automation as one of his primary sysadmin tools. Known to sleep under a desk while baby-sitting an upgrade, he’s a hard worker who’s dedicated to keeping things running smoothly. Find out more about him over at Hale the Geek.
John Long Designer & Developer
One of those scary guys that can program and design, John has been doing web development for a while. He’s passionate about people, web standards, usability and Ruby, and you can see all of those interests coming together in the Radiant CMS project. John can be found blogging at wiseheartdesign.com.
Brandon Mathis Designer
“Enthusiastic” and “energetic” are great adjectives for Brandon’s designs and for Brandon himself: he throws himself in to web design projects with a passion, and the results are amazing. A great sampling of Brandon’s personal porfolio is over at imathis.
Fred Medlin Project Recon
Fred’s background is in hard-core embedded development, but along the way he’s picked up a ton of experience in product and project management, including lots of work and advising on web applications. These days you’ll find him running a Terralien Product Outline or keeping one of our Launch Cycles running smoothly. Definitely check out his blog #ifdef to get to know him better.
Duff O’Melia Developer
Duff is one of those rare programmers that also happens to be a good salesman. His sincere enthusiasm for whatever he’s selling is contagious. One of his passions is Ruby on Rails and the amazing way it enables simple software and rapid delivery. We’d like all potential clients to hang out with him for a bit, since it’d make our sale so much easier. You can learn lots more about Duff at his site, codora.com.
Richard Powell Designer
Rich has a background in photography and over eight years of experience in Web design. He enjoys creating aesthetically pleasing Web sites and writing the CSS and HTML that brings them to life. Rich has built sites for large corporations, small storefronts, libraries, musicians, artists, and even acupuncturists! His personal portfolio can be found at samedis.com.
Mel Riffe Developer
With an extensive background in Smalltalk, Mel is all over Ruby like white on rice. He’s also an active participant in the Richmond, VA area Ruby group, and is just an all-around “gets things done” kind of guy. You can find out more about him over at his blog, Start the Insanity.
TJ Stankus Developer
TJ was writing web applications with a dynamic language (Python) back before it was cool, and happily jumped on the Ruby and Rails train as it was gathering steam early in 2005. Since then he’s put a lot of Rails sites under his belt, and he just keeps coming back for more. Follow TJ’s journey at his blog on tjstankus.com.
Victoria Wang Designer
Victoria is an avid designer who’s been making websites since she was 12. She loves intermingling her twin passions, art and code, and constantly looks for ways to add to her skills. While she’s currently staying busy pursuing higher education, Victoria still finds time to help us out with various background design tasks. Follow her adventures at violasong.
Adam Williams Developer
Adam has over 3 years of experience with Ruby and 6 years of experience with Java. He’s the author of Sails, an opinionated Web framework written in Java that borrows from Rails. He’s since made the jump to full-time Rails, and couldn’t be happier.
