Our Team

Here at Rails Dog we believe that the success of any organization is largely determined by the quality of the people you have running it.  That's why we have taken great care in building our team.  In addition to having a strong technical background, we believe our programmers should also know a little something about business.  Each member of our "pack" knows how to deliver outstanding customer service. We understand that you are putting your business on the line when making a major technology investment and we take the responsibility seriously.

Sean Schofield

Sean Schofield (aka schof) is the CEO of Rails Dog and creator of the Spree project. Prior to discovering Ruby, he worked almost exclusively with Java building large scale web applications.

Roman Smirnov

Roman Smirnov

Roman (aka romul) is our "go to" Ruby expert whenever the rest of the team is stumped. He is also an expert in "condensed matter physics" should the need arise.

Paul Callaghan

Paul (aka paulcc) is a former University lecturer turned Rails enthusiast. He has been part of the Spree core team from the very beginning.

Jeff Blum

Jeff Blum

Jeff is our V.P. of Sales and Marketing. Jeff was hired for his amazing customer service reputation which he earned during his many years working in the banking industry.

David North

David (aka davidnorth) has been working in web development professionally since 1999. In addition to being a Rails guru, he also knows his way around a Photoshop PSD.

Brian Quinn

Brian Quinn

Brian Quinn (aka BDQ) has been using Ruby for fun and profit since before Rails 1.0 and has been working in varying aspects of the IT industry for over 10 years.

Steven Jenkins

Steven Jenkins (aka stevenjenkins) brings deep experience in complex systems, having designed, built and supported systems in banking, academia, manufacturing, and technology.

Zac Williams

Zac Williams (aka jzw) has been using Ruby On Rails since 2006 and has held various IT related roles since 2001. Zac has a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Computer Science.