Mentors from Down Under

If you’re open to being a mentor, tell us below.

  • Who you are
  • What knowledge you have
  • Your location
  • Availability
  • Free or Paid

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Brisbane

James Ottaway (Free only)
Location: Brisbane
Availability: Various
Have: Ruby, Rails, Git, RSpec
Contact: @jms_ or hello@james.ottaway.io


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Melbourne


Pat Allan (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Rarely at the moment
Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Sphinx
Contact: Via twitter or email (pat at my domain dot com)


Ivan Vanderbyl (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Available sometimes
Have: Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, Testing, Interaction Design
Contact: Via Twitter


Luke Chadwick (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Have: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Git, Architecture, BDD and TDD, Agile, DevOps
Contact: Via twitter or email (me@vertis.io). I mostly meet and mentor on the weekends (but email questions are fine too)


Fred Wu (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Have: Ruby, Rails, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, UX, UI, IA
Contact: Via twitter or email (ifredwu at gmail.com)


Mario Visic (Free only)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Evenings
Have: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Contact: Via twitter or at mario@mariovisic.com


Matt Allen (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Weekdays, office hours
Have: Ruby, Rails, Startups, Job Advice
Contact: Via twitter or email (matta@lookahead.com.au)


Gareth Townsend (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Weekends, possibly evenings
Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Agile
Contact: Via [https://twitter.com/quamen] or email gareth.townsend@me.com


Glen Crawford (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Fridays and weekends
Have: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Git, Architecture
Contact: @glencraw4d or glencraw4d@gmail.com


Brendan Weibrecht (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Some weeknights, some weekends
Swap: Yes
Have: Linux, Ruby, Rails, Git, HAML/Slim, CoffeeScript, Sass, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, UI/UX
Want: Elixir, Node, Haskell, Scala, Rust
Contact: @ZimbiX or email brendan@weibrecht.net.au


Tan Le (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Evenings
Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Javascript
Contact: Via twitter or email (tanle.oz at gmail dot com)


Sydney (NSW)


Mikel Lindsaar (Free/Paid)
Location: Sydney
Contact: Via twitter or email (mikel at my domain dot net)


Trung Lê (Free/Paid)
Location: Sydney
Availability: Late evenings
Have: Ruby, Rails, Spree, HTML, JavaScript, UI/UX, CSS
Contact: Via twitter or email (trung.le at ruby-journal.com)


Rob Howard (Free only)
Location: Sydney (Remote is fine)
Availability: Late evenings, weekends
Swap: Yes
Have: Ruby, Git, PHP -> Ruby, Events Management
Want: Haskell
Contact: Via twitter or at rob@robhoward.id.au


Keith Pitty (Paid only)
Location: NSW Central Coast (remote is fine)
Availability: Evenings
Have: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, SQL, Git, Agile, Testing
Contact: Via twitter or at keith@keithpitty.com


Leonard Garvey (Free/Paid)
Location: Sydney (remote is fine)
Availability: Evenings some Fridays
Have: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, SQL, Git, Agile, Testing, Startups, JS, CSS
Contact: Via twitter


Michael Cindric (Free/Paid)
Location: Sydney (remote is fine)
Availability: Evenings some Fridays
Have: Ruby, Rails, SQL, Git, Agile, Testing, Startups, JS, CSS, iOS
Contact: Via twitter or email (michael.cindric at sentia dot com dot au)


Sameera (Free/Paid)
Location: Sydney
Availability: Weekends, Evenings (remote is fine)
Have: Ruby, Rails, Agile, Testing
Contact: Via twitter or email sameera207@gmail.com


Remote


Nicholas Jefferson (Free/Paid)
Have: PostgreSQL, Ruby
Contact: Via email (nicholas at my domain dot com dot au)


Taylor Luk (Free/Paid)
Have: Ruby, Javascript, HTML, UI/UX, Architecture, Startup
Contact: Via twitter or email (me at taylorluk.com)


Stuart Liston (Free only)
Have: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, SQL
Contact: Via twitter or email (stuart.liston at gmail.com)


Lady Linx (Free/Paid)
Have: Ruby on Rails Vulnerability Assessments, Information Security
Contact: Via email (linx at ihacked.it)


Jared Fraser (Free/Paid)
Location: London (remote)
Availability: Mornings, some evenings
Have: Ruby, Rails, SQL, Git, Agile, Testing, JS, CSS
Contact: Via twitter or email (dev@jsf.io)


Andriy Samokhin (Free/Paid)
Location: Ukraine, Donetsk
Availability: Daytime, 7 days a week
Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Javascript, Jquery, Ajax
Contact: Via email (australize@i.ua) or skype andrey.sanders


Jim OKelly (Paid only)
Location: Central Timezone (USA)
Availability: Daytime
Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Javascript, Coffeescript, HTML/CSS
Contact: Via Online Dev School or email (hello@onlinedevschool.com)


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Daniel Draper (Free/Paid)
Location: Brisbane or (Online Remote)
Availability: Various - Just ask
Have: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, HTML, CSS, UX, UI
Contact: Twitter or hello@danieldraper.com.au

Paulo Ancheta (Free/Paid)
Location: Sydney or (Online Remote)
Availability: Just ask
Have: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Git
Contact: twitter or slack handle: pauloancheta

Alexia McDonald (Free/Paid)
Location: Stockholm/Melbourne/Onliine Remote
Availability: Various - Just ask
Have: Rails, Ruby, RSpec, Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python
Contact: twitter or slack handle: alexia

Freibuis (Free only)
Location: SEQ->Gold Coast
Availability: Various - depending on the person needing help
knowledge : Ruby,rails, Full stack (emphasis on backend.) devops tools and concepts, security(ethical pen testing -> system best practices), networks design, hosting services (aws heroku etc),r&d
Contact: slack ruby Australia -> @freibuis

Parthan (Free/Paid)
Location: Melbourne
Availability: Weekdays (11am - 7pm)
Have: Ruby, Rails, TDD/BDD, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Python, Django, Postgres, MySQL, Git, Agile, Web Dev, *nix, Security, building and managing engg teams
Contact: @technofreak (twitter: technofreak | email: parthan_AT_technofreak_DOT_in )

Sandeep Acharya (Free/Paid)
Location: Wollongong, NSW/Online Remote
Availability: Various - Just ask
Have: Rails, Ruby, RSpec, Git, HTML, CSS, reactJS-reduxJS
Contact: twitter