People

We are a team of independent researchers and software developers based mainly in Armenia.

Our team is build around motivated and self-organized individuals working in Agile(Scrum) development process. The research team is currently following the growth of perspective software development areas and the creation of next generation web technologies. The software development team is specializing in wide range of areas including creation of social networking web sites (back-end/front-end) and software for mobile devices/smartphones (for almost all mobile platforms).

Our current focus is the development of FreeSonar - free mobile geo-social networking application and web services with federated architecture, open standards and protocols.

Co-Founders

Alexander Yapparov - Co-Founder,
General Director

• Several years of experience as IT Director of an ICT company, Moscow

• Location: Moscow, Russia.

Narek Kostanyan - Co-Founder,
Research and Planning Coordinator

• Senior software development experience at IT companies - "Safnet" Inc., "Overall Solutions", "Smart-Tech" LTD, "AtTask" Inc.
• Specialized in Web 2.0/3.0 technologies, federated social networks, p2p systems, multi-agent systems, security systems, clinet/server network systems, web sites front-end/back-end development, Java/.NET programming.
• PhD research work at University of Karlsruhe, Germany

• Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Executive Officers

Grigori Eyramjyan - Marketing and product development director

• Co-founder/marketing executive at Armenian Project Management Assocation
• Several years of experience as Senior QA Engineer
• Ph.D degree in Radiophysics and Communication Systems at State Engineering University of Armenia

Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Hayk Movsisyan - IT engineer, software developer

• 6 years experience in software development
• Specialized in Java, J2EE, C#, C++, iPhone App Development.
• Master's degree in Computer Sciences, Yerevan State Engineering University

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: 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

Simon Smaluhn - Independent entrepreneur, helping with PR

• Experience of in supporting diverse IT projects
• Specialized in web technologies and affiliate web site creations
• Co-Founder of Mindfulness and Understanding NGO, Steyerberg, Germany

Location: Steyerberg, Germany

Vardan Voskanyan - IT engineer, software developer

• 4 years experience in software development
• Specialized in web application development - Java, JSON, SOAP, XML, PHP, Android SDK, GWT, Google Public APIs
• Mobile application development for Android devices
• Master's degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics in computer sciences, Yerevan State University

Location: Yerevan, Armenia