Our Team

In 2005, while working on some cool short-range wireless technology, our office had a single spectrum analyzer shared amongst a team of engineers. It was big, cumbersome, and expensive. I was tired of having the spectrum analyzer cart in my cubicle, so one night I starting hacking some firmware and software to create the first Wi-Spy. Sure, it wasn't nearly as sophisticated as the Agilent spectrum analyzer I had been using, but it was a lot smaller and easier to use, which was pretty cool. I figured maybe other people would think it was cool too... and the rest, as they say, is history :-) Today MetaGeek is a small tight-knit team of folks (mostly geeks) that strives to create easy-to-use wireless troubleshooting tools.
- Ryan

Ryan Woodings, Chief Geek

As MetaGeek has grown Ryan has worn a variety of hats. These days he spends most of his time managing the business (and sneaks some development time in too). To relieve his stress Ryan enjoys running... a lot. When he's not training for a half marathon he's training for a full marathon. In the summer Ryan cruises to work on his Honda Shadow (65 mpg), mountain bikes in the Boise foothills and attempts to jump with his wakeboard.

Brian Tuttle, Geek Herder

Brian oversees our R&D and acts as scrummaster for the software development team. Sometimes they even let him write a little code! To ensure that he doesn't ever develop a personal life, he also writes our device firmware. Most importantly, he brews the coffee.

Adam Morgan, Code Ninja

Adam bends software to his will, and everyone else tries to keep up. When he isn't creating the our next generation software or improving our development processes, Adam keeps busy by trying to persuade his fellow engineers to come do CrossFit with him in his garage. What can we say? The guy's an animal.

Brian Bandhauer, Senior RF Geek

Brian is MetaGeek's first RF/Hardware geek. He is an expert at antenna design and RF circuits. When he's not designing a board or soldering up a prototype, you can usually find Brian doing yoga in his office.

Skay Woodings, Financial Stuff

Skay pays the bills, writes the pay checks, and takes care of the financial details so the geeks can focus on what they do best.

Wen Olson, Ops

Wen is the one that keeps the wheels of commerce rolling around here. She takes care of getting Wi-Spy built, packaged, and shipped.

David Hofacker, Biz Dev

David helps a bunch of geeks interact with normal people without freaking them out.

Trent Cutler, Utility Player

If you've called or emailed with a support question you've probably already met Trent. Along with tech support, he also does a lot of the website development and all of the training videos.

Mark Jensen, Marketeer

As Wi-Spy has taken off, MetaGeek hired Mark to help out with business and marketing tasks. Although more familiar with spreadsheets than with RF, Mark has taken to the geek lifestyle. Rumor has it that he now enjoys tinkering with his friends' WLANs, and finds great pleasure in defeating interference with his Wi-Spy.

Ben Bower, Apprentice Hacker

Ashok Gelal, Apprentice Hacker

Ben and Ashok work part-time at MetaGeek while studying at C.S. at Boise State University. They push the limits of our software to (hopefully) find the bugs before it gets shipped.