TEAM.

James Sulinski

James was a senior devops engineer at drop.io until it was acquired by Facebook, where he built Chef coverage of a complex, "web-scale" infrastructure in an environment-agnostic methodology, allowing virtually unlimited variances and numbers of environments. He also re-wrote the capistrano-based deployment system in tandem with a developer and built numerous tools for developers and operations peers alike. Prior to this, he was a senior systems engineer and co-founder at AccelGolf (angel-funded TechStars 2009 company) and a senior developer at AR Connection (seed-funded Manhattan startup developing Asterisk-based software). James studied computer science and finance at the University of Maine and University of Hawaii and has ten years of server, *nix, and database administration experience, beginning at age 16 with Panax Communications, a dial-up ISP in Ellsworth, Maine. James is also the founder of the 200-member nycdevops group.

William Sulinski

William Sulinski founded AccelGolf, a TechStars company, where he raised $500K in angel funding from Eran Egozy, founder/CTO of Harmonix Music Systems (Acq., NYSE: VIA); Will Herman, founder/CEO of ViewLogic (fmr. NYSE: VIEW); and Bill Ryan, CEO of BankNorth (NYSE:TD), built a ten-person team, and launched iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android applications which were featured by Apple and RIM before reaching #1 in the Paid Sports sections. William started his first web development company at sixteen, before managing family businesses with over $5 million in revenue and over forty employees. William studied Financial Economics at the University of Maine. While at the University of Maine, he was the President of the Student Portfolio Investment Fund, a $1.3M fund of the University of Maine Foundation’s endowment, and was responsible for the performance of the fund and twenty undergraduate analysts, serving as the trading desk and director of strategy for the fund. William then moved on to Citigroup’s Alternative Investments arm and Coach USA (NYSE: CUI).

Erik Sabowski

Erik was a developer at drop.io until it was acquired by Facebook. Previous to this he was lead developer at 4 Ten Technologies, a Baltimore-based start up. He also spent three years at the National Geodetic Survey (part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) writing applications that collect Global Positioning System data for use in land surveying. He has been spotted spending many hours behind a console since receiving his first computer, a Radio Shack TRS-80, at age 10. While attending the University of Maryland he was introduced to Linux and open source software. One of his favorite projects he took on in college was developing a telematics collection system for Maryland's entry in the FutureTruck competition. Since then he has devoted himself to mastering the art of system administration and exposing the benefits of open source software.

Indrek Juhkam

Indrek was a senior developer at Drop.io until it was acquired by Facebook. Indrek's Github lists his open source projects including ActiveMerchant and gems for CustomDomainFu, Workflow, Resque_unit, and ParallelTests.

Peter Frasca

Peter was the community manager and QA assassin for drop.io heading the support team with an emphasis on product optimization as the first means to alleviate user un-satisfaction. Pete was later responsible for developing the usability testing framework and program, then lead development of an alpha of the company's newest version.