There is no account manager here. The people who scope the work are the people who write it, and between us we have spent longer on building sites, in kitchens and under regulatory audit than we have in stand-ups.
Craig Schneider
Founder & Technical Director
Craig runs V Source. He holds a computer science degree from QUT and is completing an engineering degree in computer and software systems, alongside two decades in residential construction, communications infrastructure and site supervision. That range is why we can talk about the hardware a system runs on and the site it is installed on, not only the code — and why, when an install has to pass inspection, someone here has already been the person accountable for that.
Simon Hanmer
Lead Developer & UX
Simon designs and builds the part clients actually use — the interface, the system behind it, and often the brand around it. He holds a computer science degree from QUT, and before it spent twenty-odd years running kitchens — launching restaurants, and running services where a hundred covers arrive inside ninety minutes and nothing is permitted to fail quietly. Consistency under load, working to a deadline that does not move, and knowing precisely how much can go wrong at once: that turns out to be most of what shipping software actually is.
Ronan Donahoe
Testing & Robotics
Ronan tests what we build and writes the documentation that proves how it behaves. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes work that can make or break a product’s release or a compliance audit.
He’s drawn to problems without an obvious answer, which is exactly the right instinct for the job: good testing requires someone who can look at the system from a different angle than the people who designed it.
There is more to Ronan than just testing and documentation though. He is currently studying a double degree in Mechatronics Engineering and Computational & Applied Mathematics: hardware, software, and the maths that ties them together. He uses this range to find solutions that are practical and elegant, which usually means finding a smarter way to make something work rather than a more complicated one.
Ronan is another V Source team member with a background in hospitality (by coincidence, not by design). While Simon’s background was in the kitchen, Ronan looked after the front of house, where staying calm under pressure and solving problems on the fly is an indispensable skill. People are unpredictable, and understanding that is invaluable.
Asuka Hirai
Testing & Machine Learning
Asuka holds a Bachelor of Information Technology, majoring in Computer Science, from QUT, with an academic background in machine learning, computer vision, and software development. At V Source, he focuses on software testing and quality assurance, identifying issues that might otherwise go unnoticed and ensuring the final product works as intended. With a particular interest in artificial intelligence and problem-solving, he brings an analytical approach to his work and a curiosity for understanding not just whether something works, but why it works — or why it doesn’t.
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Tom Lee
Backend & Platform Developer
Tom writes the code behind the interface — the services, the data and the integrations that make the visible part work. He has worked backend and full-stack since 2018, starting from a Diploma in Web Development and building the rest of the stack himself, which is how most of the people who are good at this actually learned it. On a system that has to keep running unattended, the code is only half the job; the other half is the platform under it, and Tom owns that too, from the servers and networks up to the pipeline that carries a build to a live site. If something breaks at two in the morning, he is the one who already knows why.
