Meet Our Tribe

Talia, Ash, Rastin

We are a tribe of designers and software architects who closely collaborate with each other on all the projects.

Rastin Mehr

Rastin Mehr - Founder of rmd Studio

He is a hackerpreneur and dentistry school drop out who instead decided to finish his degree in computer science from the University of Northern BC with complementary studies in marketing and visual design. He thinks developing software that changes the future of the world is far more exciting than putting cement in people’s mouths.

Rastin is the co-founder of of the open source Anahita Social Networking software as well as the PurpleRat tribe of companies.

He is also a former Development Workgroup member at the open source Joomla! CMS project and 2 times mentor with the Google Summer of Code program.

While maintaining his love affair with open source software development, his hobbies include photography, swing dance, fashion illustration, and to binge on Sci-Fi TV shows such as Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, and Doctor Who. There is a martini named after him. A raspberry vodka martini is called a Rastini !!!

Ash Sanieyan

Ash Sanieyan - Peerglobe Technology

He is the founder of Peerglobe Technology, a mobile application development company in the Yaletown downtown Vancouver, as well as the co-founder of the open source Anahita Social Networking Software project and the creator of Class Talk facebook application prior to his involvement with the Anahita ™ project.

Ash is a brilliant hackerpreneur specialized in social networking infrastructure and mobile application technologies. He has a degree in Management and System Science from the Simon Fraser University.

He loves fine cuisine, good beer, fresh brewed organic coffee, spending time with his fiance, and working long development hours with his business partner, Rastin Mehr, on the Anahita™ project.

Talia Cohen

Talia Cohen

Founder of TACNStudio a design and branding studio with roots in the New York City. Talia holds an honours in Industrial Design and Brand Development from the Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] and Brown University School of Business Economics.

After her educational stint, she worked with various companies such as Unilever, General Mills, Virgin Mobile, Nissan. Her designs have been published internationally in GDR: Global Innovation Report based in the United Kingdom, viction:ary in Hong Kong, Experimenta in Spain, MEDIACRAT in Moscow, Rockport in Canada, and Killed Ideas in the USA.

Talia has lived on 3 continents. She enjoys fresh brewed organic coffee, dark chocolate, Architecture, and holds a national ranking in Judo.

Here is what we do ...

We develop custom mobile apps and social networking infrastructure. If you have a new business idea or looking for a software solution please send us an inquiry

We are in Yaletown, Vancouver, BC

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