The Team
James Tauber
Founder, CEO, CTO
James Tauber has been involved in web development, open source and web standards for over fifteen years. He has also held a number of senior technical positions at venture-backed software startups. Prior to founding Eldarion, he was CTO of mValent which was acquired by Oracle in 2009. James started the Pinax project and served on the Board of the Python Software Foundation.
James is a linguist by training and, like a number of notable startup founders, is currently on leave from a PhD. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, James is now based in Boston.
Brian Rosner
Chief Architect, Steward of Gondor
Brian oversees code and infrastructure architecture built at Eldarion. This includes our own sites, client sites and Gondor. He contributes time and code to open-source projects like Django and Pinax. When not writing code you can find Brian spending time with family or at the gym getting into shape. Brian currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
Patrick Altman
VP of Engineering
Patrick Altman has thrived at the intersection of business and technology for close to 20 years. After starting his own IT business at the age of 15, he went on to study at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Since then he has founded as well as held senior engineering positions in a number of companies. Prior to Eldarion, Patrick was Principal Software Engineer at StudioNow which was acquired by AOL in 2010.
Raised in the rich farmlands of Western Palm Beach County, Florida, Patrick now resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and three children.
Luke Hatcher
Tech Lead and Head of User Experience
Luke is a jack of many trades with plans to master them all someday, but he primarily enjoys improving both the developer and user experiences with our client and internal projects. When not knee-deep in code, you can bet that he's either pretending to play a folk instrument or spending time with his wife, two cats and a cup of freshly-brewed coffee.
Luke holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Centre College and currently resides in Danville, Kentucky.
Yulka Plekhanova
Front-end Developer and UI Designer
Yulka is dedicated to creating attractive and intuitive user interfaces and delivering an experience in which all elements beautifully relate to one another. She takes inspiration from her surroundings and finds interest in digital art, cinema, typography, experimental electronic music, and traveling. Born in Russia, Yulka lived in the United States for seven and a half years and currently resides in Madrid, Spain.
Dusty Noller
Client Project Manager
Dusty started out 11 years ago working on the business side within the Financial Industry, with a heavy focus on process improvement. Always having a strong inkling toward technology, she moved over to Software Development as a Systems Analyst/Project lead, where she assisted in creating customer facing applications.
Dusty is in her second year studying Web Design and Interactive Media. She joined Eldarion as a Client Project Manager, but secretly she really joined to get even closer to her passions and work with a team who has many of the same goals as her - to build amazing, useful and high-quality well-designed web sites.
We also work with a network of experienced Django freelancers.
Eldarion
About Eldarion
Eldarion builds great sites with Pinax and Django and helps you to do the same. We provide Pinax support & services, whether it's training, support or custom development you need.
We do web site development, both front-end and back-end, and can continue to host and maintain the site as it evolves.
Gondor, our managed hosting solution, is catered specifically to commercial, multi-tiered Django and Pinax deployments. Whether you are a client wanting us to also take care of your hosting needs or have a site that you develop yourself and just desire push button deployments, Gondor is the solution for you.
We also develop our own sites and host them on Gondor. Some are serious commercial sites, others are more lighthearted and fun.
Whenever possible, we open source components of our web sites and love working with clients that allow us to open source parts of our work for them.