The JS-Kit Team

Khris Loux

CEO & Co-Founder

Khris Loux has a strong 15-year track record of achievement in the software industry, specializing in negotiations and business development.

Khris founded security software firm, Securix, Inc., in 1993, and negotiated its exclusive distribution agreement and eventual merger with DynaSoft AB in 1996. In his role as Board Member and Vice President for Business Development at DynaSoft, Khris played an instrumental role in the $115m acquisition negotiations with RSA Data Securities in 1998. For the past six years, Khris has consulted intermittently with start-up companies in the creation of a profitable revenue model, focusing of product development efforts, building sales & marketing plans, and negotiations with key customers. Projects areas have included: WiFi applications, computer security, web-based delivery systems, and solar energy generation. Prior to founding Securix, Khris held key sales and business development positions at Intelligent Electronics, Sybase, and Entre Computers. Khris has a Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in Economics and Finance, and a minor in Computer Science, from Mount Saint Mary's College in Maryland.

Lev Walkin

CTO & Co-Founder

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With over 15 years of experience in software development and systems administration, Lev designs and develops high performance, special purpose network-oriented software for IP-based networks. Lev also specialises in network security, cryptographic applications, protocols and secure programming practices. Prior to joining JS-Kit Lev was an ASA platform developer at Cisco.

Philippe Cailloux

COO

Philippe joined JS-Kit to focus on Product Management and User Experience, and has brought additional Project Management and Work Flow skills to the table. He brings 15+ years of world-class consumer product leadership from previous tenures as Principal Designer and Manager of the Product Design Group at Adobe, Director Product Design at Roxio, VP Product Design and Product Management at FilmLoop, and from consulting for some of the most successful Internet startups.

Philippe has trained many User Experience professionals and served as Vice-Chair of Interaction Design for the Industrial Design Society of America. Philippe is also an avid photographer and serves as co-president of "the best little Camera Club in Palo Alto".

Chris Saad

VP Product Strategy & Community

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Chris' background includes co-authoring of the APML specification and co-Founding the DataPortability Project.

Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML) is the industry standard for Attention Profiles. A machine readable presentation of a user's interests. Used by Digg, BBC, NewsGator, France Telecom and others, APML is the OPML of Interests. The DataPortability project's mission is to advocate inter-operable DataPortability for users, developers and vendors. With official participation from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, MySpace, Plaxo and others, the DataPortability project is the organization that turned the data portability conversation into a full on riot.

Chris' role at JS-Kit is to track trends in the marketplace, listen to and participate in the community and translate those needs into actionable product direction.

Vlad Skvortsov

VP Engineering

Vlad has been in the Internet industry for over 10 years focusing on design and implementation of server-side applications on the UNIX platform. He has background in information retrieval, statistics, high-performance and distributed systems.

Before joining JS-Kit Vlad was a member of Yahoo's highly acclaimed FlexForce (aka "Tiger") team providing professional software engineering services to groups all across the company.

Sergey Averyanov

Engineer

Sergey has Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has over 7 years of experience in development of web and mobile applications, including USSD, SMS, WAP and geolocation services.

Oleg Bidzan

Technical support engineer

Oleg has a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He has about 5 years of experience in development and customer support of e-commerce software.

Olga Bobrova

Website developer

Olga is a part-time member of JS-Kit team who focuses on visual and structural aspects of JS-Kit website. She also contributes to UI development and testing, and designs JS-Kit's promo stuff. Olga is passionate about digital photography and image processing, solving math problems, hiking and canine frisbee.

Nancy Cole

General manager

@NancyCole

Nancy handles general management and finances part-time for JS-Kit. She has a history with start-up organizations, most notably leading the launch of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in San Francisco, before spending two years as the director for the Bay Area grants program, and 3 years as the program director for capacity building and higher education.

Nancy has 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector specializing in organizational capacity, outcomes-based philanthropy and relationship management. Nancy has an MBA and an MA, Arts Management, from Southern Methodist University, and was first in her class in both programs. She also has a BA with a double major in economics and art history from UC Santa Barbara.

Ivan Glushkov

Engineer

Ivan has over 10 years of experience in software development. He designed and developed the system for gathering, aggregation and presentation of athmospheric sounder data. Also he participated in several open source projects. Prior to joinig JS-Kit he worked on compiler project where he developed non-optimizing compiler, system libraries and has ported the Linux environment for the "Elbrus" processor family. At JS-Kit he focuses on integration with third-party systems.

Anna Komarova

QA expert

Smart and charming as she is, Anna knows how to address any bug and any developer. Years of programming experience and natural talent to break just about anything have made her an indispensable QA specialist. And yes, she's got a couple CS diplomas as well.

Andrew Kushnir

Engineer

Andrew has a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He has over 5 years of experience in web application development with particular interest in architectural aspects of that. At JS-Kit Andrew focuses on client-side development tasks.

Igor Lebedew

Head of technical support

Igor has a Master's degree in Mathematics with a major in Applied Mathematics. He has over 20 years of experience in software development, including extensive experience in development and support of e-commerce systems.

Yuri Lukyanov

Engineer

Yuri has over 7 years experience in web application development. He participated in multiple projects including a university ERP system and a high-traffic dating web site.

Leonid Mosenkov

Engineer

Having a Master's degree in Mathematics, Leonid possesses 5 years of experience developing and supporting web applications and mobile device software. Before joining JS-Kit he worked in an e-commerce system support team. Currently Leonid is responsible for user authentication and is involved in client-side development.

Alexander Ovchinnikov

Engineer

Alexander has a Master's degree in Maths (Applied Mathematics) and about 10 years of experience in professional software and hardware engineering including simulation and vessel control systems. At JS-Kit he is involved in integration with third-party systems.

Alex Peshkov

Senior project manager

Alex has a Master's degree in Computer Science and 15+ years of experience in IT industry (project management, software development and UNIX systems administration). He also has extensive experience in hi-tech HR management. Alex joined JS-Kit to focus on project management and interprocess communications.

Olga Polikarpova

Head of QA

Olga is responsible for quality assurance and product testing. She has over 7 years of QA experience in Telecom and EDA industries including CTI, VoIP, Billing and Physical Verification software. JS-Kit is her first and favorite web-project.

Oleg Sharov

Engineer

Oleg holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is the author of more than 15 scientific publications. His scientific interests include graphical languages, grammars and editors. Oleg has over 10 years of experience in software design and development (high-performance, distributed server-side as well as desktop applications) and a few years of experience being a technical lead for small software engineering teams.

Valeriy Shkiryak

Engineer

Valeriy has a Master's degree in Computer Science and over 7 years experience in software development, including web applications programming. At JS-Kit he generally works on client-side scripting.

Anna Shtraus

Technical support engineer

Anna has a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and continues post-graduate studies for a PhD degree in probability theory. She has several years of experience in web applications development and customer support for e-commerce software. She is a technical support engineer at JS-Kit.

Denis Titoruk

Engineer

Denis has deep experience in software systems engineering including architecture and design, integration, release engineering and perfomance analysis. Among his completed projects are a cellular service operator billing system and a medical information system for hospitals. Denis also possesses a thorough understanding of UNIX based systems. At JS-Kit he takes care of server and client side programming, mentors team members, develops and supports core components of the system.

Alexander Zhuravlev

Engineer

Alexander has a Master degree in Computer Science and over ten years experience in development and support of e-commerce systems, over eight years experience in UNIX systems administration and Cisco based equipment administration. He participated in design and development of one of the leading e-commerce platforms, completed a project in design and deployment of an Internet service provider network. At JS-Kit Alexander works on integration with third party systems.