Astrails is a small company of seasoned specialists, with an impressive list of tools and technologies under our tool-belts.
Astrails has worked with, evaluated, looked at or otherwise formed an opinion on most current technologies that are worth the buzz around them. It’s a good thing that new technologies emerge at a steady pace, otherwise our team would become bored, and that would be bad. These days Astrails specializes in Ruby on Rails applications, with all the different frameworks and solutions that have grown around them.
Our team:
Vitaly Kushner is our Ruby, Rails, UNIX, deployment, scalability and database optimization guru:
Vitaly has done it all at one time or another. He has been programming professionally since 1992. His current area of expertise is ‘all things Internet’, with my latest focus being Ruby on Rails, Linux, deployment/operations and scaling.
He has worked with ASM (x86/ARM/MIPS), Pascal, Java, C++, C, Python and Ruby. Vitaly is a coding “fiend”, he learns other languages (PHP, Perl, Lisp, Erlang, Haskell) as a hobby and uses them for consulting. He has experience in security, networks, Linux (from kernel drivers to administration), databases (MySQL, PostrgreSQL and Oracle), embedded/real time systems (Linux and Windriver), web standards, REST and SEO.
Check out Vitaly’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Bring it on; there is a very good chance Vitaly can help with whatever needs doing right now.
Boris Nadion specializes in Ruby, Rails, javascript of all flavors, legacy coding habits (C++ and likes) and is a Photoshop master:
Boris has been programming professionally since 1992. His background is in storage technologies, file systems and reverse engineering. He also used Win32 API for work and fun. When that became boring, Boris discovered Ruby, which is the coolest programming language he’s ever used. In web development since 2005: Ruby on Rails, AJAX, Action Script, Adobe AIR (Apollo), pure Javascript, MySQL, SQLite. He also has 15 years experience in C/C++ development: Win32 API, MFC, .NET, Windows internals, TCP/IP networking, file systems.
Check out Boris’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Michael Mazyar brings Ruby, Rails, testing frameworks, usability and overall user experience into the equation:
Since his first paycheck for a software development job back in 1989, he’s grown with the industry.
At one time or another Michael has done real-time programming, telephony applications, speech recognition and text-to-speech, Windows drivers development, real-time 3D modeling software and much more, and he’s used C/C++, .NET/C# (all versions), Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Win32 API, MFC, ATL, WTL, COM/DCOM, ISAPI, VoiceXML and TAPI. That’s just off the top of his head.
Michael became interested in usability at some point, and designed and developed user interfaces for several large-scale Windows applications.
A couple of years ago, Michael got himself a Mac and he became interested in Internet development (it seems like the two go together nowadays). Since then, he’s been designing and developing web applications for a living, and all his accumulated knowledge in usability, application design and development finally came together.
And he likes it.
Check out Michael's LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Pavel brings user experience to pixel perfection with his strong artistic skills:
He started his career in the early 90's as a graphic designer and he’s devoted my life to it. In 1997, Pavel started to play with Flash (then called Future Splash Player) and entered the field of interactive design. Over the years, he’s worked as an art director, interactive designer, web designer, GUI designer and graphic designer on an enormous number of projects. He currently focus on user experience design for both client- and web-based applications.
Pavel still loves to do branding, graphic design, iconography, illustration and animation. He has very strong artistic skills and is proficient in Adobe CS.
Check out Pavel's LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Astrails has worked with, evaluated, looked at or otherwise formed an opinion on most current technologies that are worth the buzz around them. It’s a good thing that new technologies emerge at a steady pace, otherwise our team would become bored, and that would be bad. These days Astrails specializes in Ruby on Rails applications, with all the different frameworks and solutions that have grown around them.
Our team:
Vitaly Kushner
Vitaly Kushner is our Ruby, Rails, UNIX, deployment, scalability and database optimization guru:
Vitaly has done it all at one time or another. He has been programming professionally since 1992. His current area of expertise is ‘all things Internet’, with my latest focus being Ruby on Rails, Linux, deployment/operations and scaling.
He has worked with ASM (x86/ARM/MIPS), Pascal, Java, C++, C, Python and Ruby. Vitaly is a coding “fiend”, he learns other languages (PHP, Perl, Lisp, Erlang, Haskell) as a hobby and uses them for consulting. He has experience in security, networks, Linux (from kernel drivers to administration), databases (MySQL, PostrgreSQL and Oracle), embedded/real time systems (Linux and Windriver), web standards, REST and SEO.
Check out Vitaly’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Bring it on; there is a very good chance Vitaly can help with whatever needs doing right now.
Boris Nadion
Boris Nadion specializes in Ruby, Rails, javascript of all flavors, legacy coding habits (C++ and likes) and is a Photoshop master:
Boris has been programming professionally since 1992. His background is in storage technologies, file systems and reverse engineering. He also used Win32 API for work and fun. When that became boring, Boris discovered Ruby, which is the coolest programming language he’s ever used. In web development since 2005: Ruby on Rails, AJAX, Action Script, Adobe AIR (Apollo), pure Javascript, MySQL, SQLite. He also has 15 years experience in C/C++ development: Win32 API, MFC, .NET, Windows internals, TCP/IP networking, file systems.
Check out Boris’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Michael Mazyar
Michael Mazyar brings Ruby, Rails, testing frameworks, usability and overall user experience into the equation:
Since his first paycheck for a software development job back in 1989, he’s grown with the industry.
At one time or another Michael has done real-time programming, telephony applications, speech recognition and text-to-speech, Windows drivers development, real-time 3D modeling software and much more, and he’s used C/C++, .NET/C# (all versions), Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Win32 API, MFC, ATL, WTL, COM/DCOM, ISAPI, VoiceXML and TAPI. That’s just off the top of his head.
Michael became interested in usability at some point, and designed and developed user interfaces for several large-scale Windows applications.
A couple of years ago, Michael got himself a Mac and he became interested in Internet development (it seems like the two go together nowadays). Since then, he’s been designing and developing web applications for a living, and all his accumulated knowledge in usability, application design and development finally came together.
And he likes it.
Check out Michael's LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Pavel Kostychev
Pavel brings user experience to pixel perfection with his strong artistic skills:
He started his career in the early 90's as a graphic designer and he’s devoted my life to it. In 1997, Pavel started to play with Flash (then called Future Splash Player) and entered the field of interactive design. Over the years, he’s worked as an art director, interactive designer, web designer, GUI designer and graphic designer on an enormous number of projects. He currently focus on user experience design for both client- and web-based applications.
Pavel still loves to do branding, graphic design, iconography, illustration and animation. He has very strong artistic skills and is proficient in Adobe CS.
Check out Pavel's LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
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