Testimonials

“Justin is a superb coder in multiple languages, and has proven himself with results. I would recommend Justin for any job where quality code, promptness, and standardization are critical criteria.”

- Ben Kero

Our Company

Mirwin Consulting is a I.T. Support company in the Willamette Valley, started by Justin Gallardo and Michael Burns. For over 15 years, we have delivered maintainable, effective designs for desktop applications and interactive websites.

Andrew McConkie, Designer

Andrew is a talented designer and illustrator. Some of his work multimedia is on display.

Justin Gallardo, Developer

Justin is a coding machine. He has worked work at Gobal Netoptex (GNi), a world-renowned hosting company, as a primary developer of their tools. This built on his work as a lead developer at the Open Source Lab, hacking on Real Network's Helix audio and video engine to produce the first multimedia player for the One Laptop Per Child and numerous other improvements to the OLPC Sugar interface.

More recently, Justin has been working with Oregon State University on the BeaverSource project, a collaborative software management website built using several Open Source tools like Elgg (social networking) and Trac (project management). The integrated site is used throughout the university by students and faculty who wish to seemlessly work on multi-person software projects. The BeaverSource project has led to many improvements that have been submitted 'upstream' to the parent projects, letting others around the world benefit from improved code.

Michael Burns, Designer

Pursuing a Bachelors in Computer Science, Michael was a Google Summer of Code Student and volunteer with the One Laptop Per Child program, being one of the first Support Gang members and administrator to the official OLPC Community Help Forum. Michael worked for the Network Engineering Team at Oregon State University for over two years, fielding abuse complaints and tracking down malicious machines underneath gigs of log files. Before that, Michael was a support technician at Salem-Keizer Public Schools, touching every aspect of k-12 IT, from configuring routers and switches to deploying Novell servers and troubleshooting thousands of Windows workstations. Most recently, Michael has worked with the Open Source Education Lab, coordinating Beaver Barcamp conferences and reaching into classrooms to find uses for Open Source software in education.