We are a small (but perfectly formed) team who are obsessive about creating user-centric technology and products that are useful and fill a real human need. We feel strongly that the best ideas happen in real time - in other words we believe in bridging creativity and technology in a super agile working style.

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Darryl Feldman/Managing Director

I have been working in the interactive media industry for well over 15 years (far too long) and recently headed up Yahoo! Europe’s Product Development team. I think about the web a lot and how to make good voodoo happen though the development of essential interactive experiences that (hopefully) make a positive impact on people’s lives. I have seen the internet grow dynamically from humble beginnings through to dotcom boom and bust and then back to growth and web 2.0 hyperboil. This journey has shown me how to both fail gracefully and succeed humbly. Now residing as a ‘Brit in Berlin’ in Prenzlauerberg with wife and twin girls. On my iPod currently plays, The Buzzcocks, King Tubby, Congo Natty, The Durutti Column, BOC, Tunng, Doves and Nitro Deluxe. I can also cook a mean chilli.

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Helmut Ebritsch/Frontend Lead

javascript addict, rails learner, drinking java, producing music, preaching agile, team leader, coremedia lover, master of media technology, community builder, ajaxian reader, xml transformer, electronic music liveact

find my music at myspace - myspace.com/screechme

find my complete music archive here - metanetlabel.com

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Nadim Salous /Interface design and user experience

I started my career in 2001. I learned to be a salesman for a marketing communication and started as an information architect at I-D Media AG, Berlin. After 2 1/2 years I began to make creative concepts for projects for I-D. More interesting stuff about me:

I like:

• black music especially the old school stuff and reggae
• coffee
• every kind of gadget
• every kind of hats (like my harry potter hat, you will see some in further blog entries)
• asian food
• lights and furniture of the seventies
• fresh ideas and executing them
• making design
• this motto: “Life is not always a bitch sometimes, we are just assholes who forget to talk to the princess.”

I love:

• The web (first love)
• Mia (second love)
• My Mum
• My friends
• My design toys

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Thomas Frank/Senior Architect

I do now professional (well, sort of) software development for more than 10 years - client-side, server-side programming, web and internet applications.
In the early days, web application programming was c/c++, perl - cgi-style dynamic web page programming, often not even having a relational database. With the famous dot.com-hype, web applications started to be more: e-commerce, content-management, communities emerged. Nowadays, rich internet applications providing all the web x.x features are the ways to go - not longer page-centric, integrating services of different providers, ajax - you know the story.
I personally spent a lot of my career with designing, implementing and operating such larger-scale applications based on j2ee requiring dedicated system infrastructure. I still love java (and the different platforms plus all the famous frameworks that are out there for building applications), but I like Rails - more and more. From a developer perspective, this is all you need if you want to be agile, lean and don’t have to bother too much with existing legacy code.
I see us at tsoosaylabs being as small as possible and acting as fast as possible. We use technology for enabling us to deliver good products - in quality and time, not only for the sake of it.

BTW: I love music - you might have seen already in our blog.

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Swen Reißig /Co-Managing Director

Hello world.

I`ve been working as a legal guy in the internet business for more than 8 years. A lot of legal issues have been changed during this short time and a lot will change in the future. But in every case a realisic view of the whole problem and the look over the horizon can make things easier. Now we can and want to change all and nothing. I really like to go snowboarding with my friends and on journeys with my family and at least - whatever happens - look in these eyes:

and all things are possible ;-))
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H.C.L. Barz / Interface Designer

What we do needs a lot of concentration - (Johnny Ramone)

I was born in Berlin and studied computer science at Technical University Berlin. Then I worked for a number of printing and publishing offices, and for a digital TV station: SK4. Between 1990 and 1992 I worked for one of Germanys first “multimedia” companies: Cinepool, Berlin.

With this background I joined MetaDesign Berlin in 1993, where
I specialized in user interface design. Since 2002 I have worked as a freelance designer for agencies like United Designers Network (now SpiekermannPartners) or ID-Media.

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Matthew Ling / Rails Software Guy

Hi, I’m Matthew from Dublin in Ireland and I’ve just joined the team. The last 4 years I was with Aperto AG in Mitte, programming and doing technical project management for big clients like Coke, Siemens and Volkswagen. I got into Rails about a year ago and have been having a great time with it since then. I developed the Berlin Calling platform for Aperto Move which was my first mid-scale project and now I’m really looking forward to working on something a bit more large scale with the guys. Otherwise, I love all things Apple & I spend as much time as I can with my lady friend and the guys from the band. Check us out at www.matthewling.com www.the123gos.com, www.flickr.com/photos/the123gos, www.myspace.com/the123gos & www.youtube.com/the123gos.