who we are
Meet our team
Communica invests in talent and if you think you can cut it with the best we'd love to hear from you.
No agents or outsourcing companies please - we do our best work in-house. :)
Amber
Although a pure creative at heart, Amber advocates well defined content structure as the backbone to a great website.
This means guiding your project through a process of User Journeys, Analytics Research, Site Maps and Wireframes before creating the responsive design which further enhances that user experience.
She's great at understanding client needs and will act as an effective conduit between you and the development team.
Gareth
Mixing the right business logic with the right technology solution takes a great decision maker with years of experience.
Gareth has these attributes in spades and makes a fantastic lead developer well known in the Auckland Drupal community.
When he's not presenting at Drupal meetup or contributing modules back to the community, Gareth is our lead architect, responsible for budget estimates and technology solutions.
Irina
The freshest face on our project management team, Irina brings a near boundless energy and enthusiasm to her projects.
Passionate about business and systems analysis, she works to find the need at the heart of client requests, and gets great satisfaction from delivering quality work.
She stands in our clients' shoes, and makes sure we get the right outcomes on time and budget.
Sunny
An experienced and creative web designer/developer, Sunny brings a wealth of skills to the Communica team, with 10 years of design and 6 years coding.
She loves drilling down to what a client wants to achieve with the design, and lifting a project beyond what they thought was possible.
Heather
A back-end dev with heaps of experience in Drupal, Laravel and other frameworks, Heather loves getting into the nuts-and-bolts of complex builds.
She excels at self management and often works off the sniff of a brief to bring full functionality to an otherwise lifeless project.
Female developers can be as rare as hens teeth to hire. Communica is stoked to gain her perspective on core application logic as well as benefit from her all round talent.
Gonzalo
Gonzalo is a senior developer with years of experience developing in Laravel and PHP in general.
He's a great guy to laugh with and excels at interpreting customer needs - turning suggestions into well engineered code.
Navkar
Navkar is our Test Engineer (ISTQB Certified - Foundation Level).
Her integration, functional and regression testing skills using Cypress have been immensely valuable and show positive improvements to the quality of our software.
Navkar works closely with our developers identifying and capturing test cases, ensuring version management and ironing out any bugs in the product. There's a common saying in the IT industry that behind every successful software is a careful Testing Engineer.
Meeka
Meeka is the glue keeping all our accounts in line and payments on time. Without Meeka at Communica it quickly turns to hell in a hand basket.
If you have any queries regarding invoices or account updates she's your woman.
