# Mentors from Down Under **URL:** \ **Category:** Jobs\ **Created:** [March 5, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32 "2017-03-05T10:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/1 "2017-03-05T10:22:05Z")
If you’re open to being a mentor, tell us below. - Who you are - What knowledge you have - Your location - Availability - Free or Paid ---
**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/2 "2017-03-05T10:22:37Z")
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**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/3 "2017-03-30T09:51:30Z")
This list moved from RORO wiki. Update it as required. ## Brisbane [James Ottaway](https://twitter.com/jms_) (Free only) Location: Brisbane Availability: Various Have: Ruby, Rails, Git, RSpec Contact: [@jms\_](https://twitter.com/jms_) or [hello@james.ottaway.io](mailto:hello@james.ottaway.io) * * * ---
**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/4 "2017-03-30T09:52:04Z")
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**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/5 "2017-03-30T09:52:12Z")
## Melbourne * * * [Pat Allan](http://freelancing-gods.com) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Availability: Rarely at the moment Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Sphinx Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/pat) or email (pat at my domain dot com) * * * [Ivan Vanderbyl](http://ivanvanderbyl.github.com) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Availability: Available sometimes Have: Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, Testing, Interaction Design Contact: Via [Twitter](http://twitter.com/ivanvanderbyl) * * * [Luke Chadwick](http://vertis.io) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Have: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Git, Architecture, BDD and TDD, Agile, DevOps Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/vertis) or email ([me@vertis.io](mailto:me@vertis.io)). I mostly meet and mentor on the weekends (but email questions are fine too) * * * [Fred Wu](http://fredwu.me) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Have: Ruby, Rails, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, UX, UI, IA Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/fredwu) or email (ifredwu at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com)) * * * [Mario Visic](http://www.mariovisic.com) (Free only) Location: Melbourne Availability: Evenings Have: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Contact: Via [twitter](https://twitter.com/mariovisic) or at [mario@mariovisic.com](mailto:mario@mariovisic.com) * * * [Matt Allen](http://lookahead.com.au) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Availability: Weekdays, office hours Have: Ruby, Rails, Startups, Job Advice Contact: Via [twitter](https://twitter.com/mattallen) or email ([matta@lookahead.com.au](mailto:matta@lookahead.com.au)) * * * [Gareth Townsend](http://garethtownsend.info) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Availability: Weekends, possibly evenings Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Agile Contact: Via [[https://twitter.com/quamen](https://twitter.com/quamen)] or email [gareth.townsend@me.com](mailto:gareth.townsend@me.com) * * * Glen Crawford (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Availability: Fridays and weekends Have: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Git, Architecture Contact: [@glencraw4d](https://twitter.com/glencraw4d) or [glencraw4d@gmail.com](mailto:glencraw4d@gmail.com) * * * [Brendan Weibrecht](https://github.com/ZimbiX) (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](https://twitter.com/ZimbiX) or email [brendan@weibrecht.net.au](mailto:brendan@weibrecht.net.au) * * * [Tan Le](https://github.com/tancnle) (Free/Paid) Location: Melbourne Availability: Evenings Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Javascript Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/tancnle) or email (tanle.oz at gmail dot com) * * * ---
**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/6 "2017-03-30T09:55:18Z")
## Sydney (NSW) * * * [Mikel Lindsaar](http://lindsaar.net) (Free/Paid) Location: Sydney Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/raasdnil) or email (mikel at my domain dot net) * * * [Trung Lê](http://ruby-journal.com) (Free/Paid) Location: Sydney Availability: Late evenings Have: Ruby, Rails, Spree, HTML, JavaScript, UI/UX, CSS Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/joneslee85) or email (trung.le at [ruby-journal.com](http://ruby-journal.com)) * * * [Rob Howard](http://robhoward.id.au) (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](https://twitter.com/damncabbage) or at [rob@robhoward.id.au](mailto:rob@robhoward.id.au) * * * [Keith Pitty](http://keithpitty.com) (Paid only) Location: NSW Central Coast (remote is fine) Availability: Evenings Have: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, SQL, Git, Agile, Testing Contact: Via [twitter](https://twitter.com/keithpitty) or at [keith@keithpitty.com](mailto:keith@keithpitty.com) * * * [Leonard Garvey](http://bottledup.net) (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](https://twitter.com/lgarvey) * * * [Michael Cindric](http://sentia.com.au) (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](https://twitter.com/michaelcindric) 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](https://twitter.com/sameera207) or email [sameera207@gmail.com](mailto:sameera207@gmail.com) * * * ---
**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/7 "2017-03-30T09:55:23Z")
## Remote * * * [Nicholas Jefferson](http://pythonic.com.au/) (Free/Paid) Have: PostgreSQL, Ruby Contact: Via email (nicholas at my domain dot com dot au) * * * [Taylor Luk](http://taylorluk.com) (Free/Paid) Have: Ruby, Javascript, HTML, UI/UX, Architecture, Startup Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/taylor_luk) or email (me at [taylorluk.com](http://taylorluk.com)) * * * [Stuart Liston](http://stuliston.herokuapp.com) (Free only) Have: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, SQL Contact: Via [twitter](http://twitter.com/stuliston) or email (stuart.liston at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com)) * * * [Lady Linx](http://ihacked.it) (Free/Paid) Have: Ruby on Rails Vulnerability Assessments, Information Security Contact: Via email (linx at [ihacked.it](http://ihacked.it)) * * * [Jared Fraser](http://jsf.io) (Free/Paid) Location: London (remote) Availability: Mornings, some evenings Have: Ruby, Rails, SQL, Git, Agile, Testing, JS, CSS Contact: Via [twitter](https://twitter.com/modsognir) or email ([dev@jsf.io](mailto:dev@jsf.io)) * * * [Andriy Samokhin](https://github.com/AndriySand) (Free/Paid) Location: Ukraine, Donetsk Availability: Daytime, 7 days a week Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Javascript, Jquery, Ajax Contact: Via email ([australize@i.ua](mailto:australize@i.ua)) or skype andrey.sanders * * * [Jim OKelly](https://onlinedevschool.com) (Paid only) Location: Central Timezone (USA) Availability: Daytime Have: Ruby, Rails, Testing, Javascript, Coffeescript, HTML/CSS Contact: Via [Online Dev School](https://onlinedevschool.com) or email ([hello@onlinedevschool.com](mailto:hello@onlinedevschool.com)) * * * ---
**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/8 "2017-03-30T09:56:58Z")
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**Author:** ![antulik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/antulik/32/2_2.png) [@antulik](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/antulik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/9 "2017-03-30T09:57:07Z")
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**Author:** ![danieldraper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/danieldraper/32/50_2.png) [@danieldraper](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/danieldraper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/10 "2017-04-06T04:48:39Z")
[Daniel Draper](https://twitter.com/coderhulk) (Free/Paid) Location: Brisbane or (Online Remote) Availability: Various - Just ask Have: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, HTML, CSS, UX, UI Contact: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/coderhulk) or [hello@danieldraper.com.au](mailto:hello@danieldraper.com.au) ---
**Author:** ![pauloancheta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/pauloancheta/32/279_2.png) [@pauloancheta](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/pauloancheta)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/11 "2017-11-14T22:59:06Z")
Paulo Ancheta (Free/Paid) Location: Sydney or (Online Remote) Availability: Just ask Have: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Git Contact: [twitter](https://twitter.com/pauloancheta) or slack handle: pauloancheta ---
**Author:** ![alexiamcdonald](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/alexiamcdonald/32/281_2.png) [@alexiamcdonald](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/alexiamcdonald)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/12 "2017-11-16T09:30:31Z")
Alexia McDonald (Free/Paid) Location: Stockholm/Melbourne/Onliine Remote Availability: Various - Just ask Have: Rails, Ruby, RSpec, Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python Contact: [twitter](http://www.twitter.com/thespacepony) or slack handle: alexia ---
**Author:** ![freibuis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/freibuis/32/287_2.png) [@freibuis](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/freibuis)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/13 "2017-11-23T05:06:42Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![technofreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/technofreak/32/306_2.png) [@technofreak](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/technofreak)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/14 "2018-10-09T00:18:33Z")
[Parthan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthansr/) (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](https://twitter.com/technofreak) | email: parthan\_AT\_technofreak\_DOT\_in ) ---
**Author:** ![sa77](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.ruby.org.au/sa77/32/310_2.png) [@sa77](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/sa77)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/mentors-from-down-under/32/15 "2018-10-20T02:15:59Z")
Sandeep Acharya (Free/Paid) Location: Wollongong, NSW/Online Remote Availability: Various - Just ask Have: Rails, Ruby, RSpec, Git, HTML, CSS, reactJS-reduxJS Contact: [twitter](https://twitter.com/sacharya77)