About Us

The Team Behind Iron.io

Iron.io provides cloud application services that areeasy to use, durable, and deliver ironclad value.

Iron.io provides massively scalable cloud application services. Available on multiple platforms and clouds, Iron.io products eliminate the need to worry about managing and scaling infrastructure, letting developers focus on building great applications.

Team Iron is at its core a group of technologists, cloud architects, and system developers. The majority are long-time programmers — expert in building apps on the cloud and then translating that into high-performance infrastructure services.

Chad Arimura
Co-Founder / CEO

Chad has over 10 years experience leading technology teams in high-growth startups. Prior to co-founding Iron.io, Chad was CIO and founder of AllDorm Inc., a collegiate media and marketing company that provided fundraisers and viral marketing campaigns for clients such as Volkswagen, Domino's Pizza, and Visa.

Chad is a technology evangelist with a BS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University. He spends his spare time rocking out with a San Francisco cover band, playing tennis, indoor soccer, and hyping up Cloud Computing with random people who may or may not care.
Travis Reeder
Co-Founder / CTO

Travis is a systems architect and hands-on technologist with 15 years of experience developing high-traffic web applications. Prior to co-founding Iron.io, Travis founded ecommStats Web Analytics and SideStripe, both involving extremely high volumes of incoming data, crunching that data, and making it useful in a scalable way. His past experience naturally drew him to cloud infrastructure as it is a natural fit for these types of applications. Travis has also led development teams at Siebel and db4objects.

Travis holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. In his spare time, Travis enjoys snowboarding in the winter, mountain biking and water sports in the summer, and being the lead singer in his fake Rock Band all year round.
Ken Fromm
VP of Business Development

Ken has 20 years of experience translating core technologies into business opportunities. He has co-founded two companies: Vivid Studios, one of the first successful interactive agencies in the early 1990s, and Loomia, a pioneering Web 2.0 recommendations and personalization service.

Ken has a BS in Computer Science from The University of Michigan. He enjoys road and mountain biking, consuming all things media, and playing around with code now and then, especially when no servers are involved and nothing to download and install.
Evan Shaw
Systems and Lead Engineer

Evan is into deep systems-level things. He has a background in embedded software, systems programming, and C/C++ programming. In the last few years, has become one of the core non-Google experts in the Go programming language and works with every language possible on the client side. He splits his time at Iron.io between building system-level features and making things more high-performance and durable. Prior to Iron.io, he was a software developer at Tru-Test Ltd and a software engineer at Garmin International.

Evan has a BS in Computer Science and Math and Poly Sci minors from the University of Missouri-Rolla. When he is not working on Iron.io things, he is adding to his reputation on StackOverflow (top 11%). And when he's not doing that, he's playing bass guitar, spending time with family, and wishing he had more time to learn about compilers.
Andrew Kirilenko
Systems Developer

Andrew, an awardee from the international Olympics in Informatics, has over 12 years of development experience in virtually all areas - from accounting, to advertising, to mobile games. Andrew loves challenges - the more challenging the task - the more dedicated and passionate his efforts. In his spare time he likes to dive into esoteric programming areas like Scheme or Haskell.
Dr. Marc Byrd
Systems Architect / Systems and Lead Engineer

Marc excels in both technical analysis and technical solutions. He's a master at arriving at the right approach quickly and then rolling up his sleeves and getting things done (either directing a team or on his own). He's poly-language but language agnostic, choosing the best tool for the right approach. Prior to working on IronMQ and IronWorker, Marc has founded companies (Zenti), architected projects (DipDive), headed up engineering (Abaca Technology), and taken charge of scalability and performance (Business Objects).

Marc has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and a BS and MS in Physics from The University of Texas at Dallas. When he's not overseeing some of the heavier math and algorithms involved in the backend, he likes to rock the basement with his family band.
Roman Kononov
Systems Developer

With more than 5 years experience in web/desktop application development and project management, Roman has participated in the development of complex ERP and CRM systems for the Japanese market, as well as payment systems for the central Asia market and lightweight web applications such as TextMagic.com. He is currently seeking his PhD in the field of computer science, which gives him an uncanny ability to solve even the most complex software design challenges here at IronWorker. As if his PhD wasn't enough, as a hobby, Roman organizes meetings of the local IT community, giving lectures and actively introducing Agile methodologies of software development.
Alexander Shapiotko
Developer

Alexander is a web developer with over 3-years experience in web programming and cloud development. Before working with Iron.io, he developed apps in many different areas — from radio engineering to mobile applications.

For now, he's liking Ruby and Rails a lot.
Paddy Foran
Software Intern

Paddy is a web and mobile developer with an unnatural fixation on the liberal arts. He's conversant in Python, PHP, Javascript, and Go; he dabbles with Java and Ruby when he can't avoid it. He's fascinated by the realtime web and has rapidly become an apostle to the cloud computing movement. His cloud platform of choice is App Engine, which he generally treats as his personal playground.

He has been called a Google fanboy, and regrets nothing. His claim to fame is 2cloud, a project that makes it easy to view web content on whichever device is most convenient.
Andy Burkovetsky
UI/UX Designer

Andy has a diverse background in user experience, graphic design, and computer science. His passion is to make things simple, look good, and function well. He's a fan of simple typefaces (the set of Droid typefaces, for example) and is big on greens ( ) and aquamarines ( ).

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Ukrainian National University and spends his spare time keeping an eye on new web technologies and playing drums and mixing sounds.