Eli provides high-level strategic decisions and company oversight, and facilitates holistic design direction through his skillsets of user interface design, user experience design, and front-end engineering. He has provided responsive design for artificial intelligence firm Marinus Analytics; dedicated marketing support to Risk Focus; bespoke mobile app development for the News Literacy Project and social media apps Thrillhop, Scopd, and High5Wizard; web development for Card Quest and Education Blueprint; and holistic brand development for Nearby Creative, Checkology®, and Wakefield Law. While attending Robert Morris University for his BFA in Media Arts, Eli was awarded a scholarship to attend Apple Inc’s Worldwide Developers Conference and a grant from the Council on International Educational Exchange to travel abroad to London for a semester.

Erik develops and supports website and mobile applications using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP, Javascript, and React Native. He provides a specialization in data manipulation, LAMP environments, responsivity and animation through vanilla JS, optimizing site performance and queries, and producing dynamic websites and mobile applications with highly customized back-end functionality and dashboards.

Kaneki specializes in full-stack development. Excelling in C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Node, React and having 5+ years of retail management experience enables him to hop in and out of various projects wherever and whenever needed. In his spare time, Kaneki, is an avid gamer, and enjoys unifying his love for engineering and gaming by creating fun and engaging game-related applications, including a League of Legends Skin Count Guessing Game and Pokemon Pokedex Replicator. Now as a Software Engineer at Nearby Creative, Kaneki aims to hone his skills as a full-stack engineer while also getting the opportunity to do what he loves: building exciting software to help everyday people and businesses achieve their goals.

Aaron specializes in developing and producing professional-grade multimedia services, including photograph and videography. With more than five years of background in the commercial photography and videography industry prior to joining the team, Aaron captures, edits, and formats photography and videography to suit every type of client need. His multimedia is suited for use on websites and mobile applications, digital and traditional advertisements, social media accounts, print collateral, and beyond.

Elisa facilitates successful projects by serving as a liaison to our clients, and she provides high-quality content and messaging support as well. She has professional writing, editing and project management experience by way of her previous role as Content Marketing Specialist at Ansys, and Assessment Editor for Lincoln Learning Solutions, among others. Elisa holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University.

Josh analyzes and modifies software, in addition to constructing, designing, and testing applications to meet both client and user needs. His expertise includes JavaScript, PHP, and AWS. Josh’s former position in sales for Robert Half and managerial work led to his interest in software engineering and encouraged him to take on challenging projects and tasks, while his role as a trumpeter in the United States Marine Band taught him the value of honing leadership skills.