Intridea - People

Barg has seventeen years of experience with commercial software product development. He specializes in User-Centered Designs and Agile project management. Barg has been active in the Agile community since 2002. He has written articles and presented workshops at various conferences. Barg enjoys teaching Ruby on Rails, Agile Project Management, Web design, and Usability. Barg is a serial entrepreneur.

Prior to co-founding Intridea, Barg was the President of Concentric Methods, an Agile Software Development company. Barg is also a founding member of NeoDiagnostix Inc, a biomarker-based cancer diagnostic company. Barg graduated from Cornell University.

Dave is the cofounder of Intridea and a classic Web 2.0 "hacker". As our lead Architect, and an expert Ruby on Rails developer, Dave heads Intridea's product development efforts. He is an active member of the Rails community and the author of numerous plugins.

Before Intridea, Dave spent years at both AOL and IMAKE and received a Masters in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. In other entrepreneurial ventures, Dave built and operated CanYouConnect - a social-networking site that competed with MySpace - and Connexon Media - a Rails consultancy. Washington DC Ruby User Group.

Chris is an expert Ruby on Rails architect with over 10 years of project leadership and hands-on development experience. He specializes in leading small teams on fast-paced development projects. As Director of Client Solutions, he oversees Intridea's client services efforts.

Before Intridea, Chris led Better Endeavor LLC, a Ruby on Rails consultancy. He has also worked as a software architect for George Washington University and the University of Maryland. Chris spoke at Railsconf 2008 on developing web applications in 48 hours, is an active member of the Rails community, and helps run the Washington DC Ruby User Group.

As the Creative Director of Intridea, Michael is responsible for the user experience of Intridea's products and service solutions. With many years of experience working as both a designer and a developer, Michael specializes in helping to bridge the gap between the back-end development and the front-end design of a project.

Michael also serves as Intridea's Open-Source Liaison. In addition to writing numerous Rails plugins and open-source libraries himself, he internally and externally promotes the use and release of open-source in all of Intridea's work. For more information about Intridea's open-source efforts, view the open-source page.

A former computational scientist, Pradeep was writing sophisticated astrophysical simulations in Ruby well before the language became fashionable. Since then, he has been working with and thinking a lot about social networks, machine learning and applying mathematical models to social data.

At Intridea, he's responsible for researching and developing emerging web technologies, launching new products and writing beautiful code. Recently, he's been checking out Erlang and has been spending lots of time hacking away deep in the guts of the Rails framework.

Before Intridea, Brendan spent his days as a systems architect at a mobile startup called kajeet, Inc. He also found the time to co-found, design, and lead development on Yappd, a microblogging social network, built on Rails, that was featured in such publications as PC Magazine, TechCrunch and Mashable.

Brendan loves to spend his time hacking around with anything ruby and is a self-proclaimed Apple-fanboy.

Adam has a passion for elegant solutions and beautiful code. He is a Ruby on Rails evangelist who advocates test driven development and web standards. Before joining Intridea, Adam worked at Revolution Health building large-scale applications used by millions of people each month.

Joe brings nine years of professional front- and back-end development experience to the table, with expertise in Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript. He fell in love with the web when Netscape 1.0b was released in 1994 and hasn't looked back since.

Prior to working at Intridea, Joe was a software engineer at Revolution Health, where he developed enterprise-level B2B and D2C applications.

Raymond has extensive background in C++ data modeling and simulation, picked up working for a defense contractor. He also studied PHP before discovering the beauty of Ruby on Rails and joining forces with the Web 2.0 list managmenent site, OnMyList.com Ray is now a senior engineer with Intridea, where he specializes in agile development with Ruby on Rails. He is proficient in front-end design, back-end business logic, deployment setups, as well as DBMS.

Prior to joining Intridea, Paul was a mathematician for the National Security Agency. He's been a Ruby user for years, but is a relatively recent Rails developer. In addition to Ruby, Paul is well-versed in C and Perl, and has been a full time Linux user for over ten years.

Simon, a graduate of the Java Rehabilitation Clinic, loves Ruby's dynamism and Rails' terseness. He can build an app from end-to-end - design, UI, and hacking the DB when ActiveRecord just won't do it. He likes working on interfaces, tweaking for usability.

Dave has expertise in architecture, design and development of multi-tier enterprise applications. Dave specializes in enterprise integration.

Doug has more than 10 years of web development experience, and is comfortable working on everything from CSS to the database. He enjoys hacking on Rails and Merb, and is always working on broadening his skill set.

Prior to joining Intridea, Doug worked at Revolution Health Group, with a focus on their B2B efforts and web services. He also worked for the NFL Players Association, where he converted the nflplayers.com website from legacy ASP code to C#/.NET, and managed the site on a day-to-day basis.

Prashant is well versed in web analytics. He is proficient at researching and analyzing how the users are interacting with the system to improve the site design. He is also our lead test engineer.

Ping is our lead Ajax and XML/Web Services Developer. He has eight years of experience developing high-performance, server-side applications in Java and C++. He is also a certified financial analyst.

Yong had been in network security Industry for 6 years before becoming a fulltime ruby developer. In his free time, he wrote a ruby parser and compiler for JVM, and has been participating Google Summer of Code program as a mentor for Ruby Central.