Mutually Human Software - Company

Team

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Craig Demyanovich

Software Developer/Partner

Fairly fresh out of school, Craig was exploring Java by night while working with Visual Basic 6 by day. He found JUnit and was intrigued by the idea of writing tests to gain a high degree of confidence in his code. At about the same time, he read about refactoring. It wasn't long before he was reading about eXtreme Programming and software craftsmanship. He knew that he had found techniques that could help him write great software.

For the next several years, Craig would gradually refine how he crafted software as a member of the I.T. group of a global biological sciences and laboratory equipment company and while working for his Faith. Also during that time, he found Ruby. He didn't put the language to immediate use, but he kept an eye on it. In 2006, he attended his first meeting at the local Ruby user group. Little did he know then that he would found Mutually Human Software with three of the people he met that day.

Outside of work, Craig enjoys reading, playing hockey (something he's done since the age of 5), playing tennis with his daughter and spending time with his wife, his high school sweetheart.

John Hwang

CEO/Partner

John is responsible for the day to day operations of MHS. Not only does he manage the daily office/administrative duties, but he finds time to work as a full-time developer. When he's not dreaming of new ventures and crazy ideas, he employs his ninja Ruby/PHP/IA/Design/HTML/CSS skills to knock off stories and save the day. Although born in Philadelphia, John hails from Busan, South Korea.

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Mark Van Holstyn

Software Developer/Partner

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Zach Dennis

Software Developer/Partner

Before joining Mutually Human Software, Zach spent the previous six years developing software including a visual sales tool and web-based project management system for one of the nation’s largest companies. Zach is passionate about solving problems and believes in ongoing improvement to the methods and practices used in solving those problems. He agrees that people matter most and is very interested in improving the communication between technical developers and non-technical business people.

His passion about software development led him to learning Ruby in late 2002. In 2005 Zach started developing with Rails and by 2006 he was developing with Ruby and Rails full time. In February 2005 Zach started the Michigan Ruby Users Group. In late summer of 2006 he helped organize and spoke at the first annual RubyConf*MI. He has contributed to Ruby’s standard library documentation and to Rails as well as authoring and maintaining plugins like ActiveRecord::Extensions, form_test_helper, view_tests and test_unit_story_runner. He is an active member of the Ruby, Rails and RSpec communities.

In his spare time Zach runs Continuous Thinking.

Matt Blodgett

Software Developer

Matt is a giant software developer living in Grand Rapids with a love for Ruby and all manner of weird ideas.

Matt blogs, tweets, etc.

Careers

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Mutually Human Software is Hiring!

We’re looking for a developer who has a little (or a lot) of experience writing custom web applications. This developer will work on a small 2-4 person team. Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JSP, Python, Django, or .NET/C# is a plus but is not a requirement.

More important than finding someone with great technical skills, we are looking for someone who will fit into our small company culture—someone who will push us as much as we will push them to develop great software for our customers.

If you are interested, please contact us via our contact form.

Contact Us

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About Us

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Who we are

Mutually Human Software was started in 2006 by four friends who are passionate about building custom web applications using agile practices and Ruby on Rails.

Philosophy

We write people friendly software. Software that is intuitive, easy to use, and beautiful. Software that respects you and considers your point of view. Friendly to your customers, friendly to the owners, and friendly to the developers.

We build software using people friendly methods. We are agile programmers and believe that communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect are the key ingredients to a successful project.

When we say “we”, we mean you the customer and us the developers. Business objectives are achieved through the collaboration of business and technical expertise. Therefore, we believe that teams should be composed of both business people and developers.

Friendly, Respectful, Mutual.