Get to know the most talented team in the business
ENTP was created with the idea “if you get enough smart people in the room, anything is possible.” We are experts at architecting, designing, and implementing web applications using Ruby, Ruby on Rails™, and Javascript. We have core members of the Rails and Prototype teams on board and are responsible for some of the most distributed open source code in the world. Meet the team behind the company.
Giles Bowkett
Giles is a programmer and blogger. He's worked with Ruby since 2006 and has also used Perl, Python, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript, ASP, and PHP. He began building web applications before Perl had SQL or HTTP libraries, wrote for Wired when it was cool, spoke at ten or fifteen Ruby conferences in 2008, depending if you count user groups, and has released several open source projects.
Daniel Cadenas
Daniel was a second year medical student when he decided that getting into the internals of computers was more fun than dissecting people. Thanks to this decision the uruguayan life expectancy hasn't plummeted.
Another decision he is happy about is leaving his static C# world to get in to the crazy and beautiful world of Ruby. He currently works out of the Uruguay office with Evan & Nicolás
Will Duncan
Will (imagetic) has been lurking the halls of Lighthouse support since the beginning of time.
After a long collegiate career involving both Digital Media and Photojournalism degrees, Will's continued passion for multimedia and the web led him to discover the coolness factor behind Ruby on Rails.
Courtenay Gasking
Courtenay (court3nay) 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.
Evan Henshaw-Plath
Evan (rabble) has been building apps with Rails since the very first released version, 0.5 back in July 2004. He was the lead developer at odeo.com and the project architect for Yahoo! Fire Eagle, the first ruby on rails app to be launched by Yahoo. He threatens to finish writing a book on Testing Ruby on Rails for O'Reilly, but it remains a work in progress. When Rabble isn't coding on something, or talking at a conference, he likes go around and cause trouble
Matt Lyon
Matt (mattly) was driven into programming when he couldn't find existing tools to help him with his art, music and business projects. Turning to a fledgling Ruby on Rails in late 2004 after outgrowing Filemaker Pro for inventory tracking needs, Matt thanks Ruby for killing his art career and is currently resurrecting his old Max/MSP sequencer Ourouborous in Ruby.
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.
Kyle Neath
Kyle (kneath) 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.
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.
Justin Palmer
Justin (Caged) is currently experimenting with writing OS X apps using Objective-C and RubyCocoa. One of his popular applications, GitNub, is a GUI for the git DSCM. He also has an archive of JavaScript code he's written over the years
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.
Nicolás Sanguinetti
Nicolás (foca) enjoys romantic sunsets, long barefoot walks on the beach, and–er, wait, wrong description. Right, uhm: he's been hacking and building stuff since he got his hands on a computer, and has been into web development for around 6 years. He has been using ruby and rails for about 4 years now, and enjoys learning new things as often as possible. He's studying Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at the university (and can't decide on what to major in...) and is a huge board game geek.
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.
Matt Wastrodowski
Towski (tao-skee) is a rationalist. He enjoys the generic ruby, rails, iphone development stuff, but is more interested in the practical things you can build with them. Believer in both the lone hacker philosophy and the "Agile" team methods, he insists that you learn both.