Mikel Lindsaar
CEO & Founder at Exec IO
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarMikel Lindsaar is a veteran entrepreneur and software engineer with 18 years building and scaling Ruby-on-Rails SaaS businesses, currently serving as CEO and Founder of StoreConnect, Exec IO, and reinteractive from Sydney. He has founded and exited four SaaS companies over the past decade and authored TRUE TEAM, blending operational leadership with product-focused engineering. Hands-on in backend development, Mikel is the primary author of the notable mikel/mail Ruby mail library, demonstrating deep expertise in message handling, encoding, and multipart systems. He pairs full-stack delivery experience—from prototyping to ops—with a founder’s knack for repeatable productization and guaranteed services. Beyond commercial ventures, he chairs a not-for-profit committee helping businesses improve profitability through applied management systems, showing a commitment to practical business improvement as well as code.
18 years of coding experience
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
ruby10
parsing10
headers10
parse10
base64-encoding9
object-oriented-programming9
strings8
text-manipulation8
file-handling8
attachment8
filehandle8
heroku6
testing6
ruby-on-rails6
bdd6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikel/mail
Nov 2008 - Dec 2022
A Really Ruby Mail Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 531 commits, 52 PRs in 14 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mikel's commits primarily focus on developing and implementing features within a Ruby-based mail library. The contributions include importing core elements of the mail system, creating classes for handling message components (header, body, and attachments), and defining methods for setting and retrieving header fields. The user has also been responsible for adding and refactoring encoding functionality, as well as handling multipart message structure.
mailsmtpmtaemailruby
mikel/contact
Apr 2009 - Nov 2009
Contributions:30 commits in 7 months
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