We act as technology accelerators to help companies rapidly move from strategic concept to functioning application. We're a team of cloud architects, web developers, big data experts, project managers, and business strategists who like to turn “we should do this” into “done that.”
Travis Reeder Co-Founder / Cloud Architect
Travis is a systems architect and hands-on technologist with 15 years of experience developing high-traffic web applications. Prior to co-founding Appoxy, Travis founded ecommStats Web Analytics and SideStripe, both involving extremely high volumes of incoming data, crunching that data and making it useful in a scalable way. His past experience naturally drew him to cloud infrastructure as it is a natural fit for these types of applications. Travis has also led development teams at Siebel and db4objects. Travis holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
In his spare time, Travis enjoys snowboarding in the winter, mountain biking and water sports in the summer, and being the lead singer in his fake Rock Band all year round.
Chad Arimura Co-Founder / Cloud Architect
Chad has over 10 years experience leading technology teams in high-growth startups. Prior to co-founding Appoxy, Chad was CIO and founder of AllDorm Inc., a collegiate media and marketing company that provided fundraisers and viral marketing campaigns for clients such as Volkswagon, Domino's Pizza, and Visa.
Chad is a technology evangelist with a BS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University. He spends his spare time rocking out with a San Francisco cover band, playing tennis, indoor soccer, and hyping up Cloud Computing with random people who may or may not care.
Ken Fromm EVP of Business Development
Ken has 20 years of experience translating innovative technologies into business opportunities. He has co-founded two companies: Vivid Studios, one of the first successful interactive agencies in the early 1990s, and Loomia, a pioneering Web 2.0 recommendations and personalization service.
Ken has a BS in Computer Science from The University of Michigan. He enjoys road and mountain biking, consuming all things media, and making connections within the tech and media industries.
Douglas Robertson Director of Web Development
Doug has 15 years of experience developing applications and managing development teams. He has served as developer, director of technology, and application manager and rotates comfortably between the roles to deliver highly responsive technology strategy with hands-on development. When he’s not on Appoxy business, he’s busy piloting planes and helping pilots improve their flight plans (WorldFlightPlanner.com).
Roman Kononov Ruby on Rails Developer
With more than 5 years experience in web/desktop application development and project management, Roman has participated in the development of complex ERP and CRM systems for the Japanese market, as well as payment systems for the central Asia market and lightweight web applications such as TextMagic.com. He is currently seeking his PhD in the field of computer science, which gives him an uncanny ability to solve even the most complex software design challenges here at Appoxy. As if his PhD wasn't enough, as a hobby, Roman organizes meetings of the local IT community, giving lectures and actively introducing Agile methodologies of software development.
Andrew Kirilenko Ruby on Rails Developer
Andrew, an awardee from the international Olympics in Informatics, has over 12 years of development experience in virtually all areas - from accounting, to advertising, to mobile games. Andrew loves challenges - the more challenging the task - the more dedicated and passionate his efforts. In his spare time he likes to dive into esoteric programming areas like Scheme or Haskell.
Andy Burkovetsky UI/UX Designer
Andy has a diverse background in user experience, graphic design, and computer science. His passion is to make things simple, look good, and function well. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Ukrainian National University and spends his spare time keeping an eye on new web technologies and playing drums and mixing sounds.
Andy Lu Web/UI/Ruby Designer
Andy is a web/graphic designer and developer with over 3 years experience, he has a passion for building great looking and easy-to-use websites and web applications. When not in front of his iMac, he can be found in bookstores or spending time with his dogs and cats.
Dongzhen Piao Ruby on Rails Developer
Dongzhen is studying towards his Ph.D degree in machine learning and large scale data processing. He has been involved in several data mining projects that analyze data from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, and others extremely large data streams. He is also an enthusiastic Rails developer having developed several Rails sites over the past 3 years. He has a Master's degree from Columbia University, a Bachelor's from Tsinghua University in China, and is working on his Ph.D at Carnegie Mellon University.
Yury Yantsevich Ruby on Rails Developer
Yury began programming when he was 10 years old under Soviet computers like БК-0010 (BK-0010), Корвет (Korvet) and ЕС-1840 (ES-1840). Since then he has built mobile, desktop, server, and specialized big data analysis systems for companies such as Yahoo!, Rightmedia, and Boingo.
He has received awards in academic competition for Informatics and Physics, programmed in Ruby, Perl, Lisp, PHP, C, C++, LUA, and Javascript, and thinks clustered predictive analysis systems are a good time.
Sally Guan Finance & Accounting
Sally recently received her Masters degree in Financial Analysis from the University of San Francisco. She has worked with international I.T. firms, business consulting firms, and a major commercial bank. Her expertise lays in financial analysis, revenue/profit projections, and identifying/assessing venture capital firms to find the most appropriate target company for their investments.
She is passionate for arts as well. She learned piano when she was very young. Sally spends her spare time traveling, reading, playing tennis and cooking.
Stephen LeMarbre Advisor
Steve is a sales and marketing advisor for Appoxy who has helped shape and solidify the brand and sales strategy. In his free time he can typically be found at golf courses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Appoxy is a key part of our technical strategy. Top-notch work and great follow-through. Everyone else is on a scale of one to ten, but the dial at Appoxy goes to eleven.”
Jonathan Speed, CEO of Xaaps
The most pronounced advantage to developing in the cloud is agility - the ability to work faster and get more things done. In the case of outsourced development, agility translates into the ability to ramp up development of a project as well as identify if something is going off course.
The reason is because build-test-deploy cycles are faster using cloud infrastructure and programming frameworks. The structure and flows for a web app can be built in a few days or weeks. Data storage components can be brought on line quickly and multiple copies or versions of test data can be cycled in and out. Configuration and data management time is reduced.
Post launch, this agility extends to iterating on the design. No application is launched with the right features and flows - in fact, with minimal viable product approaches, the goal is not to get everything right, it's to get something to users to get data. Being able to rapidly iterate based on real-world data and to rapidly add or delete features (yes, deleting features is a part of popular design approaches) makes sure you get a viable product to users sooner rather than later.
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