April 22nd, 2008

Bigger Team

With an increasing workload, we’ve had the need to get more resources on our side. We tried to take some time to find good people, we worked with contractors, but felt the need to have some face to face talks. More importantly, we want to work with people who understand where we want to get as a company, and have input in the direction our work is taking; in other words, we want to create a company culture. So, our team did grow from 3 to 5, we added two great individuals to our team.

Fouad Masoud has joined our team from Amman, Jordan one month ago, and has already proven to be a very important asset. Fouad did some designer work a few years ago, but he is currently a UI Developer, being the guy helping us to make our great designs be displayed on a browser. He’s also learning some Ruby on Rails tips, and will gradually give us more help in the back-end of our applications. We worked with Fouad in a previous project, soutii.com in late 2007, and were very happy with his work.

Michael Smith joined us this week, he is one of the guys behind places.ae. We met Michael in the Rails UAE group meetings, we went out a few times, and we had some fun hacking rails.ae together. He also worked with us for 2 weeks at the end of last year, and did some work on exporting data from restate.ae into Facebook. He’s a very energetic and entertaining guy and will bring not only his technical skills, but a very enthusiastic attitude to our group.

We’re looking forward to having fun with a bigger team, and be able to tackle problems with more brain power than ever.