About Ket

Team Member
Founder & Director

Ket started Spirit Quest as a web design business in 1999 after securing a Prince's Trust Loan and a handful of clients.

Creativity, ethical living and computing are what make Spirit Quest thrive.

With interests in coding, design, UX and systems, Ket as a speaker at conferences, presents concepts for web and mobile, fusing ideas together.

He has recently finished a contract working with TUI, which helped develop numerous 5 star rated iOS and Android apps during his time working there.

Qualifications

Ket studied at Sheffield Hallam University in Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Engineering. He is an Appcelerator Titanium Certified App Developer.

Ethical

Ketan has been vegan for 23+ years and likes to work with technology to make an ethical change in this world. He worked with The Vegan Society in the UK for several years.

Community

Ket is the organiser of London Titanium user group, through which he was founder of hackathon/unconference event Titanium AppCamp. These events ran in London and Atlanta, had 100+ user turnout and attracted Mozilla, Github and Amazon as sponsors.

Volunteer

Ket has been volunteering and assisting with the running of the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival since 2006.

Awards

Ket and team won "Most Inspirational" best in class award from 2013 NASA Space Apps Challenge. This was a global hackathon with 9000+ individuals taking part.

Ket won a Mobile Innovator award from Appcelerator at their 2013 Developer conference for his efforts within the mobile development community.

Skills & Expertise

Here are some of the current skills and technologies Ket has experience in.

Design

  • Responsive Web Design
  • Mobile UX/Design
  • Sketch
  • Git & Workflows
  • API & Backend
  • Public Speaking

Develop

  • HTML & CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • PHP & MySQL
  • Node.js (Express & Koa)
  • Event Organisation
  • Scrum / Agile team