Dave has been running publicly-accessible libre web services for more than twenty years, including Aotearoa NZ's oldest continuously running Mastodon instance.

Dave is a system administrator and software developer with thirty years of professional experience. He started his career as a research scientist at an NZ Crown Research Institute specialising in developing image processing and photogrammetry software, and has most recently worked for a decade in tertiary-level distance learning and online education technology for the OER Foundation.

He has (co)founded and run five companies, including bespoke libre software and IT services company Egressive Ltd, which he founded in 1998 and ran until 2012 when it was acquired by Catalyst IT, for whom he subsequently worked. He has a strong network of contacts across the Aotearoa New Zealand software and IT industries.

Dave is a vocal advocate for libre software, and was president of the New Zealand Open Source Society for 9 years. He blogs on a wide range of social and technology topics, and publishes libre tech tutorials.

Dave is always enthusiastic about new opportunities to provide organisations with open, community developed software tools that free their users from proprietary dependence, especially in areas like scientific research and education.

Isaac has fifteen years experience as a software developer, including head-of-development roles for multiple companies. In addition to software development, he's worked in web design, customer research, regulatory compliance, and quality management roles. He has an academic background in Human-Computer Interaction and Usability research, studying how real people experience computers, and what makes them user-friendly. He's also been a high school teacher of mathematics and computer studies.

Isaac values deliberate and sustainable planning, with attention to risks and security.

Like many Magnificent customers, Isaac doesn't yet use libre software for every aspect of his digital life. He focuses on software quality first, and chooses libre when it meets his standards. He's enthusiastic about the growing quality of libre web applications, and the opportunity to bring together a suite of practical, approachable, and ethical software that people can use without compromise.

Alister is an experienced server engineer. He's advising us on the Docker-based software infrastructure we use to deploy web applications.

Bianca has more than 25 years of experience in the tech industry, having worked in product management, solution architecture and technical sales roles for startups, agencies and corporates in Germany, China, the UK, Spain and New Zealand. 

Her passion for entrepreneurship, startups and research commercialisation led to engagements with Edinburgh and Cambridge and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University, as well as numerous mentorship programmes. 

Bianca has an academic background in business, computer science and artificial intelligence. She first came across libre software at university in Germany in the late 90s and is excited for a renaissance of software that is owned and controlled by the communities impacted by it. 

She's advising us on product, business, and marketing strategy. 

Matt has over 20 years experience in financial services in New Zealand, Australia, and Japan. He's passionate about libre software, and excited about opportunities to grow a flourishing software sector that's independent of overseas control.

He's advising Magnificent on financial operations, and helping us plan sustainable business strategy.

Stephen is a software developer, project manager, and business analyst, consultant with experience across both technical and people-oriented aspects of the software sector. 

Stephen brings his skills in research, business, and humanities, along with his experience helping major New Zealand government, business, and media organisations, to help Magnificent deliver effective solutions to customer problems.