Kevin Miller

CEO

Kevin is the founder and CEO of RunRev, overseeing a global team and development of the Rev programming language. Kevin founded RunRev with the vision of taking HyperCard forward as Rev, which resulted in the acquisition of the multi-platform development engine from MetaCard Corporation, and financial backing from Mike Markkula, the legendary venture capitalist and early Apple investor.

Kevin began programming at age 12 on a Mac LC, first in HyperCard and SuperCard, and created an RPG game as a hobby with friends. This early hobby led to his developing Learn to Type, a more commercially realizable project. After discovering MetaCard, his programming interests and instincts matured, and he began to realize his vision of bringing an English-like programming to a wider audience.

Since Rev 1.0, Kevin has passionately evolved the company and product. He manages a global team and a modern technology company. The product itself is enormously advanced from its early roots, but retains Kevin’s vision of powerful yet simple programming for everyone.

In his spare time Kevin plays the piano, enjoys recreational climbing and plays squash. He has a cat named Oscar.

 

Mark Waddingham

Director of Technology

Mark is the Director of Technology and the driving force behind every Rev release over the last two years. He is intimately involved in planning and operations at RunRev, with jobs ranging from coding the Rev engine, to supporting all of Runtime's developers.

Mark began programming in BASIC at age five when he acquired a ZX Spectrum. He moved on to the Amiga at age 10 where he taught himself Amiga BASIC, 68k Assembly Language and C. At age 13 he had moved on to an Acorn Archimedies A5000, where he continued to program in C and C++, writing utilities for his school. Two events at about this time sparked Mark's interest in computer languages: One was the arrival of version 1 of Linux, the other was his discovery of "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools".

Mark attended the University of Bath in South West England completing courses in Computing and Mathematics. By his third year he became frustrated with the limitations of the computing course and spent his last two years almost exclusively reading Mathematics. In 2001 he began a PhD in pure mathematics at Edinburgh University, where he met Kevin, and by early 2004 postponed his academic career and joined RunRev.

Mark is a fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy as well as modern literature and other fiction. He aims to play the piano more than he does and is currently learning Chopin's Revolutionary Etude.