The Lark Group Team

We're not fresh behind the ears college graduates at Lark Group, but experienced developers with plenty of business and coding perspective. Our core team of four has an aggregate of more than half a century writing and delivering software. We'll be happy to apply this wealth of experience to your project.

Mike Gunderloy

Over two decades of development experience spanning multiple languages and platforms. I’ve been working with Rails full-time since 2006. I have extensive experience in working with distributed, agile teams at all levels from project manager to developer. I also have a good track record for coming into large existing codebases with poor or no documentation and moving the project forward.

In addition to contributing patches to Rails itself, I’ve been contributing documentation to core Rails via the Rails Guides project and Rails Guts. You can see some code I’ve written or poked at over on GitHub. I've also written several ebooks, including Rails Rescue Handbook and Rails Freelancing Handbook.

In addition to my own consulting work through Lark Group, I am also a partner with the high-end Rails consultancy Action Rails.

Mike Breen

I have been developing software for the past ten years. These days I'm focused primarily on Rails, though I also keep an eye on up-and-coming technologies including Sinatra and the various NoSQL implementations. I'm an active contributor in the Rails community.

Dana Jones

I bring over ten years of web development experience to the table. My skillset includes HTML/CSS, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB, VB.NET, Javascript, and XML, though currently I work exclusively in Ruby on Rails and other open-source technologies. I have worked as sole developer when the project calls for it, but am also comfortable working with team members in a distributed development environment.

I played an important role in helping get the new Rails Wiki off of the ground, contributing both content and editing services, as well as encouraging participation by other key figures in the Rails community. I am active in the Rails forum and in the Ruby on Rails IRC channel.

You can view my portfolio here.

Russell Norris

I like watching Lost and dislike talking about myself in a business-like way.

I've worked with HTML, Javascript and CSS on some level for the past 15 years but it wasn't until stumbling across Ruby 4 years ago that I began my web development career in earnest.

Since then I've made contributions to many open source projects including Rails, Haml, RMagick, make_resourceful, and has_many_polymorphs. I've also developed a number of somewhat popular plugins and gems for the Ruby/Rails ecosystem which you can see at my Github repo.