We are all Vermonsters

Brian Kaney

Brian attended UMass where he studied mechanical engineering. His first substantial programming was with Matlab and Simulink modeling mechanical systems and control theory. While in university, he worked as a consultant on projects for Keruig, Osram Sylvania and Analog Devices. Here he fell in love with lean product development, and began developing web applications. Shortly after college he co-founded Askfor.com where he met Jay. They later founded Vermonster LLC as a consulting firm.

Brian once wrote lots of Perl, but now spends most of his time writing Ruby. He has helped several companies work out their release processes, from git to deployment. He knows his way around Amazon's AWS products and has recently started tinkering around with node.js and is a daily bicycle commuter.

Brian is known as bkaney on places like github, IRC and twitter.

Jason Powers

Jay is co-founder with Brian and coined the "Vermonster" name. Jay grew up in Vermont and attended UVM. Before he and Brian stopped working for the man, he wrote bits of code for various CMGI companies, including AdSmart and Engage. Jay is a fantastic architect and strong believer in keeping things simple.

Jay was also a Perl programmer for years and has some nice modules still in use on CPAN. Now he spends much of his time writing Ruby, but isn't afraid of a regex or -p -i -e one-liner. Jay is a fairly regular runner and feels if he can complete two marathons a year (typically Boston and NYC), he can't get too out of shape.

Jay is known as jpowers and/or bennrock on places like github and IRC.

Steve Masterman

Steve studied philosophy and linguistics at MIT, where he learned that clarity is a virtue. He can help you elucidate your business requirements. He started programming games in C as a young lad, and later fell in love with the Python language and development community, but has more recently learned to appreciate the cuteness of Ruby. Steve is excited about Rails 3, Cucumber, WebSockets, and the NoSQL explosion. He is a passionate believer in the benefits of free and open source software, and a dedicated student of the piano.

Steve is known as steve9001 on places like github and IRC.

Jonathan Hinkle

Jonathan, our newest Vermonster, studied computer science, cognitive science, and a bit of linguistics down at UGA. He enjoys developing random projects such as decision trees and evolutionary algorithms in less commonly used languages such as Prolog and OCaml, but loves Ruby best for its extremely rapid development times and its economical, nearly poetic expressiveness. When not basking in the comforting glow of an LCD, he likes to take epically long walks in the city or the mountains, camera always at the ready.

Jonathan is known as hynkle on places like github and IRC.