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 is a multifaceted developer who specializes in MERN and LAMP stacks, and has deep experience in frameworks like React, Node, and Laravel. He has served as a lead engineer and engineering manager building desktop and mobile applications from the ground up, and architected both front-end and back-end for numerous enterprise clients. He is a force when it comes to churning out new features quickly, performance optimizations, debugging complex integrations, and producing dynamic and bespoke software functionality.

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.

Megan has over 8 years of experience helping clients show off who they are both in print and on the web. With experience in IT, at a full-service creative agency and as an enterprise UI/UX designer, Megan has had the opportunity to work with over 75 unique clients including FedEx, PWSA, and MSA. Megan has a passion for using what she has learned to help businesses grow their brands and get the attention they deserve in a way that is economical and sustainable.