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 has over five years dedicated to web application development and front end consulting. He has occassionally dabbled in server administration and application deployment, but he's not proud of it. Before Bitovi, Brian worked at Accenture and researched CPU simulators at U of I.

Brian is passionate about helping clients achieve simple, on time, maintainable solutions to complex software problems. He thinks JavaScript is so awesome, he named his dog Ajax.

Brian has been involved in the JS community as the Chicago JS.Chi meetup's organizer (400+ members) and occassionally as a speaker.

In his spare time, Brian cooks, rollerblades with his dog, plays basketball, and is a die hard NBA fan

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.

Frederick Polgardy

Fred is a fifteen-year veteran of web technologies who brings a unique, full-stack perspective to user experience development.

As a consultant on numerous web projects, Fred became frustrated with the way JavaScript and front-end development was typically "practiced" — as an afterthought to an otherwise well-designed, testable system. He has made it his mission to master the dark corners of JavaScript, and teach it as a first-class citizen among programming languages.

When he's not making client projects more awesome, you can find him digging around in NodeJS and JavaScriptMVC, reading philosophy, composing or arranging choral music, or traveling with his family.

Fred is a recognized leader in the Chicago JavaScript community and frequent speaker at JS.Chi.

Ralph Holzmann

Ralph has been been a hobbyist web developer for ten years and professionally for four. He started his career in PHP, but quickly became fond of JavaScript for it's dynamic nature and implications on UI in the browser. He's went on to handle front end experiences for big name clients such as Victoria's Secret and Zynga. More recently he's been writing full stack JavaScript using Node.js and CoffeeScript.

Ralph's work has been featured in .NET magazine and he's been asked to speak about JavaScript at many local meet ups as well as conferences. He spends his free time hacking on personal projects, such as yepnope.js and Send to Dropbox. He also enjoys playing guitar, and spending time with his wife and three boys.

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 for five years. He started coding in PHP and ColdFusion, but after a year, realized that front-end coding was a much better fit and that became his focus.

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 baby boy.

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.