Who we are
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Courtenay Gasking
Courtenay is the crazy-ideas man and founder of ENTP as an agency. Working on the idea that, "if you get enough smart people in the room, anything is possible", he brought together this talented and skilled group of developers.
Previously, he has worked in many different jobs, including, but not limited to, fashion photography, breakbeat DJing, home construction, braindead call center operator, and as a beater for a partridge hunt. He's also worked as a data analyst for Boeing, a DBA for a major tourism business, and has been developing websites off and on since 1997.
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Matt Lyon
Matt was a visual artist using Filemaker Pro to manage various aspects of his Scrapbooking Supply Design business. After outgrowing Filemaker he replaced it with the then-fledgling Ruby on Rails toolset, and is currently rewriting those rails 0.8.5 apps in his spare time.
Matt is known around the office as "Mr. Edge Case", and has a freakishly good spatial memory.
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Jeremy McAnally
Jeremy (mrneighborly) has been a Ruby and Rails developer, consultant, and author for over three years. In that time, he's released some open source software (like dcov, radiograph, vintage, and others), written a couple of books (The Humble Little Ruby Book and Ruby in Practice), worked on the Rails Documentation Project, spoken at conferences like GoRuCo and Mountain West RubyConf, and made lists of his projects that strike him as far too long.
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Kyle Neath
Kyle is one of those designer types that loves to play around with code. He's been tinkering with the web since '98 and has been building web & desktop experiences for big bad agencies for over three years.
When he's not stealing Rick's code or procrastinating on his 360, Kyle writes at Warpspire.
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Rick Olson
Rick (technoweenie) blames Ruby on Rails for destroying his ASP.Net career. He's been using Rails actively since 2005 and is now working on making issue tracking enjoyable with Lighthouse. He's also released several open source projects, such as Mephisto, Beast, along with numerous plugins and is a core Rails committer.
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Justin Palmer
Justin (Caged) was one of the first to start documenting Prototype on his blog AlternateIdea (formerly EncyteMedia) and is a member of the Prototype Core Team. He's co-founder of Active Reload, LLC., and co-creator of Lighthouse and Mephisto. He'll also stomp you at Gears of War.
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Nicole Ramsey
Nicole (chronicole) has worked with the Web in different capacities, from pure production to writing/design. She is passionate about design and strives to make sure the design doesn't get in the way of the content - otherwise she calls it art.
When not wondering if she has used "FAIL" in the correct context, she contributes to Photojojo, home of the best photo shiz anywhere and is part of the editorial team for Digital Web Magazine, the web professional's online magazine of choice.
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Trevor Squires
Trevor (protocool) is a seasoned and often outspoken developer from Vancouver Island, Canada. He has been a bicycle mechanic, a tech-support drone and a product trainer.
Mostly though, he's been thoroughly enjoying the life of a coder in the fields of Unix platform security, distributed configuration management, online securities trading, music distribution, and the instrument landing system for the Space Shuttle. Okay, not the shuttle one, but that would have been sweet.
He has over three years of full-time Ruby on Rails experience and gets a big kick out of tinkering with the guts of the RoR framework.
Our advisers and mentors
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Rob Maigret
Rob Maigret is a Los Angeles-based technologist and digital storyteller.
He is currently co-founder (along with long-time collaborator Oliver Luckett) and CTO of DigiSynd and founding member of X12 Productions. Rob was formerly the CTO of video sharing portal Revver.com, where he met most of the entp team as contractors. In past lives Rob has held executive positions at iBlast, a number of other startups and got his hands dirty as a technology director at PolyGram and Universal Music Group.
He can usually be found in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. His current choice of weapons are a Macbook Pro 3,1, Boxster S, 8GB iPhone and a Canon SD800is.
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Oliver Luckett
Oliver is the CEO and co-founder of DigiSynd; previously Oliver founded Revver and helped kick off new media with his novel concept of the video rev-share: the principle component of Revver's business. Even longer ago, Oliver took the Norman Lear "Declare Yourself" campaign to the Internet and gathered more than one million new online voter registrations.
Taking a trip back further, we would find Oliver as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of iBlast, Vice President of Network Development at Anschutz Digital Media, Chief IP services architect for Qwest Communications and founder of the media and technology consulting firm, Revilopark. Unfortunately, ReviloPark's client list is highly confidential, so we cannot disclose its work with Norman Lear, The Wayans Brothers, BlueChip Investors, Pamela Anderson, David LaChapelle, HSI Productions and Karyn Rachtman's Mind Your Music.
Oliver still cherishes his bachelor's degree in French Literature from Vanderbilt University. Additionally, he teaches at various graduate schools in Digital Media and lectures extensively at industry conferences and events worldwide.
He makes his home in Los Angeles, CA where there is almost always a stranger sleeping on his couch.
What we do
Our team members are experts in the most highly-sought after technology in web development today: Ruby on Rails. Beyond that, we are fervent believers in Open Source and contribute heavily back to the community; we've created or contribute to most of the technologies, frameworks and applications used every day by Rails developers.
- Beast » Discussion board/forum software
- Mephisto » The most widely-used Rails blogging platform and publishing software
- Caboose » the original advanced Rails developer community
Our employees work in offices in Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, California; our contractors work from all over the world.