Mikel Lindsaar

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 Ruby on Rails contributors world wide and is an 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 a lot of pro bono volunteer work and likes flying his radio controlled helicopters at stupid speeds, often into walls.