People

We are a team of independent researchers and software developers. We represent the non-profit Hamaspyur Foundation.

Our research team is currently working on perspective software development areas and researching on the next generation of web technologies. The software development team is specializing in a wide range of areas including the creation of social networking web sites (back-end/front-end) and software for mobile devices/smartphones.

Our current focus is the development of community based web platforms, mobile geo-social networking applications and services with open standards and protocols.

Co-Founders

Narek Kostanyan - Co-Founder,
Research and Planning Coordinator

• Senior software development experience at IT companies - "Safnet" Inc., "Overall Solutions", "Smart-Tech" LTD, "AtTask" Inc.
• Research and development of Web 2.0/3.0 technologies, taxonomies, community based web and mobile applications, federated social networks, p2p systems, multi-agent systems, workflow management systems, ATM security monitoring platforms, web site development (front-end/back-end), etc.
• Volunteer social work at NGOs, communes and eco-villages in Italy, Germany, UK, Russia, India, Armenia
• PhD research work at University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Traineeship/work experience at European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General, Brussels

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Contact: narekATThamaspyurDOTam

Alexander Yapparov - Co-Founder,
Marketing and Innovation Manager

• Several years of experience as IT Director of an ICT company, Moscow
• Strategic marketing lead for an ISP company

Location: Moscow, Russia.

Contact: alexanderATThamaspyurDOTam

Tigran Barseghyan - Co-Founder,
IT Manager

• 6 years experience in software development
• Specialized in Java, J2EE, .NET, C#, C++, PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc.
• Master's degree in Computer Sciences, Yerevan State Engineering University

Location: Yerevan, Armenia.

Contact: tigranATThamaspyurDOTam

Executive Officers

Suren Sargsyan - IT engineer, Senior software developer

• More then 20 years in Software Development Industry: PointSource Inc, Scopic Software Inc, Hitegrity LLC, CarShield Inc. Scientific research center of Development of Artificial intelligence System, Biomedical cybernetics and computer science, Credence Systems Armenia, Inet Technologies Inc.,
• Main skills: image recognition; embedded software; compilers development; system programming; enterprise resource planning.

Additional Trainings

• 2005, Synapse Communications, Inc. Tokyo, Japan. (Image recognition, processing)
• 2005, SZ Test system AG. Ameraang, Germany. (RF tester software development)
• 2003, Modulation Instruments, Inc. Colorado Springs, USA. (Testing object oriented software)

Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Sedrak Araqelyan - IT engineer, senior software design engineer

• Senior software development experience for more than 10 years
• Specialized in security and cryptography: public key infrastructure (PKI), Most popular algorithms (Deffie-Helman, DSA, DES, TDES, SHA), MS CryptoAPI
• Ph.D research work in Theoretical Physics, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.

Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Tigran Mnatsakanyan - IT engineer, software developer

• 6 years experience in software development and design in large scale b2b and b2c applications development
• Specialized in J2EE , J2ME, JSP/Servlets , JSF 1.1/1.2 + Facelets, JSON, SOAP, REST, XML, RPC, AJAX, Hibernate, Spring core, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlow
• Mobile application development for all major platforms (Android, Iphone/Ipad, BlackBerry, Windows 7)
• Master's degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics in computer sciences, Yerevan State University

Location: London, UK