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.
Tim Clark
Tim has over ten years of project and business management experience, having worked both in the heady days of the Web 1.0 boom and bust on sites such as the Spider-Man Movie website, the X-Files website, and other entertainment properties. In the middle part of the decade, he worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory on the management teams of the Kepler Mission, the WISE Project, and the Keck Interferometer. In 2009, he finds himself back working in the web at ENTP, which is at turns much less stressful and much more stressful than space telescopes.
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.
Outside of code, he plays drums in LA-based prog-punk band MA46, and produces glitchy techno beats as half of Telesonic Commander.
Zack Hobson
Zack (zenhob) has been building large-scale database-backed web applications for over a decade using Perl and (eventually) Ruby. Motivated by a desire to advance the state of the art, he is constantly looking for better ways to solve a problem (or avoid having to solve it entirely) and is passionate about software architecture and API design. Zack was born and raised in Los Angeles but left after he got tired of being the only person who didn't own a car. He now lives in Portland with his girlfriend and their cat, and spends most of his free time playing video games. He will argue with you about anything.
Justin Palmer
Justin (Caged) is experimenting with writing OS X and iPhone apps. Design is his profession, but he has a deep love for programming. He's played a major role on numerous popular projects such as Lighthouse, Mephisto, Warehouse and GitNub.
Justin also loves politics and tries to stay involved in oGosh when he's not playing his 360 or PS3.
Josh Pyles
Josh (pixelmatrix) is a designer and developer with a huge passion for next-generation web apps. While mainly focusing on design, he’s got a knack for jQuery, and making the impossible happen on the web.
In his spare time, Josh helps with Refresh Portland and works on his jQuery plugins: Uniform , mapKey and GetGravatar.
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.
Chris Rhee
Chris started designing websites in 1998. And never stopped. His work is featured multiple times on Smashing Magazine, The Huffington Post and countless web design galleries. He runs a food blog called Cut & Taste and the website for hip-hop record label, QN5 Music. Lorem ipsum.
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.