Astrails is a small company working on big ideas.
With a comprehensive list of tools, skill-sets and best practices accumulated over the years, we approach our work with a great deal of experience, curiosity and vigor. Astrails has also worked with, evaluated or otherwise formed an opinion on the most current technologies in its surrounding technology community. The fast pace of development keeps Astrails always intrigued, always interested and never bored. This makes us happy campers.
Today, Astrails specializes in Ruby on Rails applications, as well as all related frameworks and solutions that have grown around Rails.
Our team:
The rumors are true: Vitaly Kushner is hard core. He approaches his work with the same passion and intensity as Muhammad Ali’s knockout punch. Vitaly founded Astrails with his friends Boris and Michael.
A self-labeled coding fiend, there’s not much Vitaly can’t do. From Ruby on Rails, to Linux, to deployment/operations and scaling, Vitaly’s mantra is: bring it on. And they don’t call him hard core for nothing, the guy learns a number of languages in his spare time to enhance his work and provide coding with the highest relevance and efficacy; plus, he also needs to feed his insatiable appetite for all things internet/programming. Knockout punches left and right, that’s the sound of Vitaly at work.
Check out Vitaly’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Dressed to the nines and always ready to program, Boris Nadion combines his Fred Astaire moves with over twenty years of professional programming experience to get the job done, whatever it may be.
Boris started programming in 1992 and has been developing on the web with an assorted combination of programming languages ever since. Although his background is in storage technologies, file systems and reverse engineering, he specializes in Ruby, Rails, Javascript of all flavors, legacy coding and is a Photoshop master. If he was stranded on an island with a lifetime supply of beer and only one programming language to code with, no doubt he would pick Ruby. Boris founded Astrails with his two friends, Michael and Vitaly.
When he isn’t working, Boris enjoys listening to jazz and beating Michael at tennis.
Check out Boris’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Known for his remarkable listening skills and most intrigued by the interaction between human and machine, Michael Mazyar has accumulated over twenty years of experience in a range of usability programming, including telephony applications, speech recognition, text-to-speech software, and large-scale Windows applications.
After purchasing his first Mac computer just a few years ago, Michael shifted his focus to developing web-based applications, maintaining his specialty in usability and user experience. Michael founded Astrails with his friends Boris and Vitaly. When he’s not beating Boris at tennis, he enjoys listening to techno and sipping a fine glass of single malt whiskey old enough to be his father.
Almost as though in a Zen-like trance, Michael Mazyar approaches his programming with a calm mind and a steady hand. Buddha? Never mind him, what would Michael do?
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 his 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
Known for addressing not only the symptoms of a problem but getting to the root cause,
Costa Shapiro (superhero alias: The Professor) digs deep into his work and doesn't come up
for air until the problem is solved and the world is made right again.
A researcher at heart and a firm believer in the superpower potential of information management, Costa has helped pioneer some of the first professional Internet tools, production and testing components, and web-mining and communication systems; all this without a cape or a Batmobile.
With over twenty years experience in the industry, Costa has worked for companies such as Qualcomm, Intel, Nielsen and NetManage.
He joined Astrails in early 2011 where he works as a software engineer and consultant. If you look up to the skies, you probably won't see Costa, but if you're wondering who's the guy that answers the distress signal when your software isn't working? It's Costa, that's who.
Check out Costa's LinkedIn
A natural-born autodidact, Daniel Lurie entered the programming world by buying a computer
and "just figuring it out". Almost everything Daniel's learned he's learned by reading books and
blogs, consulting with experts, trying out tutorials and just tinkering with scripts to test out and
learn on his own, much like that movie with that guy and that girl and them apples.
Over the years he's accumulated a number of programming methodologies, the likes of TDD, BDD, etc and he's also known for his deep and close relationship with linux console-fu.
Daniel joined Astrails in July of 2010 as a Ruby on Rails developer. In addition to his autodidacting skills, Daniel is also known for his problem-solving endurance. With Daniel no problem is too large, no bug too big; the man just doesn't give up until the problem says Uncle.
Check out Daniel's LinkedIn
With a comprehensive list of tools, skill-sets and best practices accumulated over the years, we approach our work with a great deal of experience, curiosity and vigor. Astrails has also worked with, evaluated or otherwise formed an opinion on the most current technologies in its surrounding technology community. The fast pace of development keeps Astrails always intrigued, always interested and never bored. This makes us happy campers.
Today, Astrails specializes in Ruby on Rails applications, as well as all related frameworks and solutions that have grown around Rails.
Our team:
Vitaly Kushner
The rumors are true: Vitaly Kushner is hard core. He approaches his work with the same passion and intensity as Muhammad Ali’s knockout punch. Vitaly founded Astrails with his friends Boris and Michael.
A self-labeled coding fiend, there’s not much Vitaly can’t do. From Ruby on Rails, to Linux, to deployment/operations and scaling, Vitaly’s mantra is: bring it on. And they don’t call him hard core for nothing, the guy learns a number of languages in his spare time to enhance his work and provide coding with the highest relevance and efficacy; plus, he also needs to feed his insatiable appetite for all things internet/programming. Knockout punches left and right, that’s the sound of Vitaly at work.
Check out Vitaly’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Boris Nadion
Dressed to the nines and always ready to program, Boris Nadion combines his Fred Astaire moves with over twenty years of professional programming experience to get the job done, whatever it may be.
Boris started programming in 1992 and has been developing on the web with an assorted combination of programming languages ever since. Although his background is in storage technologies, file systems and reverse engineering, he specializes in Ruby, Rails, Javascript of all flavors, legacy coding and is a Photoshop master. If he was stranded on an island with a lifetime supply of beer and only one programming language to code with, no doubt he would pick Ruby. Boris founded Astrails with his two friends, Michael and Vitaly.
When he isn’t working, Boris enjoys listening to jazz and beating Michael at tennis.
Check out Boris’s LinkedIn | Twitter | Skype
Michael Mazyar
Known for his remarkable listening skills and most intrigued by the interaction between human and machine, Michael Mazyar has accumulated over twenty years of experience in a range of usability programming, including telephony applications, speech recognition, text-to-speech software, and large-scale Windows applications.
After purchasing his first Mac computer just a few years ago, Michael shifted his focus to developing web-based applications, maintaining his specialty in usability and user experience. Michael founded Astrails with his friends Boris and Vitaly. When he’s not beating Boris at tennis, he enjoys listening to techno and sipping a fine glass of single malt whiskey old enough to be his father.
Almost as though in a Zen-like trance, Michael Mazyar approaches his programming with a calm mind and a steady hand. Buddha? Never mind him, what would Michael do?
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 his 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
Costa Shapiro
Known for addressing not only the symptoms of a problem but getting to the root cause,
Costa Shapiro (superhero alias: The Professor) digs deep into his work and doesn't come up
for air until the problem is solved and the world is made right again.
A researcher at heart and a firm believer in the superpower potential of information management, Costa has helped pioneer some of the first professional Internet tools, production and testing components, and web-mining and communication systems; all this without a cape or a Batmobile.
With over twenty years experience in the industry, Costa has worked for companies such as Qualcomm, Intel, Nielsen and NetManage.
He joined Astrails in early 2011 where he works as a software engineer and consultant. If you look up to the skies, you probably won't see Costa, but if you're wondering who's the guy that answers the distress signal when your software isn't working? It's Costa, that's who.
Check out Costa's LinkedIn
Daniel Lurie
A natural-born autodidact, Daniel Lurie entered the programming world by buying a computer
and "just figuring it out". Almost everything Daniel's learned he's learned by reading books and
blogs, consulting with experts, trying out tutorials and just tinkering with scripts to test out and
learn on his own, much like that movie with that guy and that girl and them apples.
Over the years he's accumulated a number of programming methodologies, the likes of TDD, BDD, etc and he's also known for his deep and close relationship with linux console-fu.
Daniel joined Astrails in July of 2010 as a Ruby on Rails developer. In addition to his autodidacting skills, Daniel is also known for his problem-solving endurance. With Daniel no problem is too large, no bug too big; the man just doesn't give up until the problem says Uncle.
Check out Daniel's LinkedIn
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