Core Team

Riel Roussopoulos : CEO

Riel is an entrepreneur pure and simple. With a series of successful small ventures to his name, XLsuite represents the next level of business challenge for him. As with most projects, XLsuite was born out of a need to manage his own company affairs. Believing that no one's needs are unique, he created XLsuite to help others like him to manage their affairs online. In addition to developing domain properties, Riel is a talented SEO and internet marketing expert. He writes regularly on domain development, marketing and SEO issues and is a member of the Board of Directors of Cirkids (cirkids.org) a wonderful Vancouver Circus Performance Arts Group aimed at youth.

François Beausoleil : Lead Programmer

Francois has been working with Riel on this project since day one back in July of 2005. First as it pertained to WePutUpLights.com and then later as it evolved into XLsuite. His background is as a business application programmer on Lotus Notes, Clarion and Java. He was an early adopter of Ruby on Rails and had been a strong proponent of it's benefits since day one. He is quite likely the most prolific open source ruby coder on the planet since XLsuite is to our knowledge the biggest Ruby on Rails code base that had been released to the open source community (other than the ruby on rails framework itself of course).

Harman Sandjaja : Programmer

Harman is a recent UBC graduate in Computer Engineering, despite this handicap he's picking up non Microsoft coding skills and learning all about the open source world very quickly (considering his brainwashing). We're very happy to have Harman, he brings very strong work ethic and excellent analytical skills to our team and had proven to be a very quick study.

Maxim Ionut : Designer

A Romanian designer with experience in open source platforms like XOOPS and JOOMLA, Max has been added to the team to help with the CSS work associated with our application development as well as front facing design for our clients.

Spencer Shek : Programmer

Spencer is a graduate of the UBC Computer Science Department. He brings a fresh mind and a love of granola bars to our team. Spencer's primary role is as a bug tester and squasher although as his experience grows he's starting to spearhead the programing of individual modules himself.

Additional Contributors

We also work with many consultants and freelancers to make things happen. If you need a team to draw on for your development, don't forget that as an open source project, we have access to hundreds of other programmers and designers that have experience with XLsuite.

Some of those that have made considerable contributions include:

Michael Styles : Project Manager | UI Designer

Michael has worked on and off with us for many years. Usually as a project manager and interface designer. His core database skills are in FileMaker, but his experience in designing extranets and intranets has been a shaping factor in many of our projects.

James Stubbs : Graphic Designer

James is a veteran of the Toronto Design scene with both corporate clients and a strong sense of social responsibility he's worked on many not for profit websites and capital campaigns. James brings a wealth of design experience to our team and is a strong proponent of standards compliant design practices.

Sherrod Falks : EXTjs Designer

Sherrod has been working in house for one of our sponsors, but a large portion of his time is dedicated to development of the XLsuite UI and functions specific to that sponsors use. Sherrod works from the east coast, splitting his time between South Carolina and New York City.