People

Justin Meyer : CEO

Justin has over 7 years of application development and management experience and has been in over 20 different application development cycles. Working for both GE and Accenture, Justin is well versed in the methodology required to organize a project to a successful conclusion.

Brian Moschel : CTO

Brian is a JavaScript enthusiast with over 6 front-end focused years of experience building web applications. With Justin, he was an original author of JavaScriptMVC. He has a strange passion for bringing quality to unusually large JavaScript applications through automated testing and maintainable, sane architecture decisions.

His role at Bitovi is a mix of trainings, consulting, and managing many of the day to day operations. Recently in the open source arena, he has focused on Steal and FuncUnit development as well as speaking at conferences to promote CanJS' superiority over Backbone.

In client projects, his usual role is to step into a messy project and help turn things around through training, better architecture decisions, and better team and code organization. Brian named his dog Ajax (and frequently mocks him), constantly quotes Arrested Development, and recently got addicted to running and CrossFit.

Mihael Konjević

Mihael is professionally involved with web development since 2003. Most of this time he worked as a developer although he believes that it's important to understand every part of process to deliver great user experience. His favorite programming languages are Javascript and Ruby. His current focus is on building sleek UI-s powered by JavaScript.

He is one of the organizers of the CodeAtSix meetup - one of the biggest Croatian developer meetups - which focuses on modern technology and development practices.

If he's not writing code, you can probably find him rolling on the mat.

Austin McDaniel

Always caffeinated and full of energy, Austin is one of the senior consultants for the Bitovi Team. Austin's experience includes just over 7 years of web-based software development. Austin holds a bachelors degree in computer information systems combined with a masters in business.

Alexis Abril

Alexis Abril has been writing web applications professionally since 2003. With a start as a .NET developer, Alexis eventually moved into a Rails environment, however UI development has always been his focus. In that time span he has worked on a variety of projects including eCommerce, intranet, web service, console and mobile applications. He believes while a basis in full stack development is a great foundation for web application authors, specialization is the key to advancement in a respective profession.

Alexis has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and is a current resident of the North Dallas area.

Andy Kant

Andy has been a professional user interface engineer since 2006. While he has experience in most major development technologies, Andy has always loved the visual side of software and fell in love with ease of creating rich interfaces with JavaScript early in his career. He is passionate about building products that have a great user experience combined with a clean interface. He can often be found designing the UX in addition to implementing it. Prior to joining Bitovi, Andy architected the UI powering the new version of MapQuest as well as Harley-Davidson's Ride Planner.

Andy has a B.S. in Software Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering. He lives in Milwaukee and can be found on Twitter as @andykant.

Curtis Cummings

Curtis has been a professional web developer since 2008. He started with PHP and quickly moved to front-end coding where he discovered that JavaScript was way more fun.

Before Bitovi, Curtis was at Symantec building Norton's successful eCommerce platform. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

When he's not coding, Curtis enjoys playing hockey, golfing and spending time with his wife and two kids.

David Luecke

David has been in web development since 2006 starting out developing and supporting CMS, blog and eCommerces solutions. Soon he found his real interest in creating JavaScript heavy web applications.

He firmly believes in elegant and simple software solutions and that getting there is one of the biggest challenges in software development.

In his free time you can find him co-organizing Pixels and Pints, a developer and designer meetup in Calgary, at the local NodeJS/JavaScript group or hanging on a rope in the Rocky Mountains.

Josh Dean

Josh has been a web developer for over 7 years. He spent most of that time as ASP.NET developer, but quickly grew in love with JavaScript and mobile web development. He has worked with clients such as GE Healthcare and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, and currently helps with jQuery Mobile in his spare time.

Nikica Jokić

Nikica started doing web development after falling in love with Ruby in 2008. Along with Ruby came Javascript, and with it a whole new world of front-end development. He enjoys both back-end and front-end development, and getting to know the "whole stack" (he even spent a few years as a Linux sysadmin).

In that time span he worked in various fields including data-crunching, eCommerce and content management software.

With a soft spot for bleeding edge stuff, in recent months he has been wrestling with Clojure.

Apart from learning new languages and breaking servers, he enjoys getting beaten on various martial arts classes.

Eli Morris – Heft

Eli has been doing web development since 2005. Since then, he has dabbled in databases, explored UX, served as sysadmin, and delved deeply into design (for web and for print). He is passionate about code architecture, and stays active on the CSS and HTML WG mailing lists.

In his spare time, Eli runs security for several conventions around the country, explores new recipes, works on personal projects, and is generally a giant nerd about everything.

Veljko Dragišić

Veljko has been partially involved in web development since 2005, at first with PHP and later with Python / Django framework, other than that he also has experience in diverse type of fields, from managing computer networks and system administration to hardware engineering. Currently his main occupation is mastering JavaScript tied with development of modern web applications.

He fulfills his free time by hacking obscure video devices, keeping an eye on new technology breakthroughs and occasionaly organizing concerts.

Farhana Basrawala

Farhana Basrawala is a web developer specializing in the LAMP stack. Recently, in the past few years, she has gained a passion for JavaScript. Prior to joining Bitovi, Basrawala worked as a Web Application Programmer creating a small MVC framework called Mobius and working on a sustainment team to ensure usability of the production app.

Basrawala takes interest in designing the architecture of a project from beginning to end; starting from databases and ending at the HTML views. Figuring out the inner workings of libraries, reading theories, and trying to come up with the 'best way' for a situation is really what keeps her motivated and excited.

Basrawala graduated with a B.A. in French with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Florida. As an active member of the Ft. Lauderdale community, Farhana enjoys going to the beach with her dog, Rayne, and participating in local web-related meet-ups and seminars

Stan Carrico

With 7 years of web experience and nearly 4 years of client-side application development experience, Stan is very excited to join the Bitovi team. He began his career as a data analyst and Linux enthusiast, but quickly realized the fantastic possibilities of the open web and rich client applications. When he isn't wrangling code, he can be found organizing the HTML5-Milwaukee meetup group, cycling, or exploring the great city of Milwaukee, WI.

Stan attended the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where he learned to appreciate Bach as much as Nine Inch Nails. He enjoys attending software and sci-fi conventions, especially if there is an excuse to sneak in a Star Trek or Dr Who panel.

Ryan Wheeler

Ryan has been developing and managing software applications for nearly 10 years. With a passion for the web, mobile, and overall user experience, Ryan recently left the enterprise space to focus on front end development.

Ryan holds a Bachelors degree in both Computer Science and Marketing from North Central College. In his personal time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and playing referee to their three boys.

Tom Greever

Tom has been designing websites and interfaces for more than 12 years. His experience in corporate marketing departments and as a freelancer gives him insight into the needs of both large and small organizations. Most of his UX/UI experience has been designing complex apps for government contractors: mapping data for decision makers. But no matter what it is, Tom loves making stuff look good. In fact, when he's not obsessing over pixels, he's restoring a classic British car as further expression of his penchant for making things shiny. Tom is a designer, HTML/CSS coder, outdoorsman, husband, and father to four. Find him on Dribbble or Twitter.

Matthew Phillips

Matthew has been involved in web development since 2005, starting out by migrating legacy systems to PHP, then working in a corporate .NET environment before finally settling in as a client-side advocate. Never without a side project, Matthew is most interested in new web technologies that push the boundaries of what is possible in the browser, such as web sockets, canvas, and IndexedDB.

In his spare time Matthew is an admittedly middling kayaker.