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Meet The Team

Jonathan James Gafill

Jonathan

Chief Executive Officer

Biography

Jonathan grew up a small town in Northern Michigan and spent a lot of his early years sailing, playing music and travelling. His interests both in and out of the classroom were focused on computers, robotics and many other techno shenanigans. For a decade Jonathan has been working on the web and sharpening his skills. He is known as a jack-of-all-trades and possess the required knowledge to both foster and lead the various CloudAccess.net teams.

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Joe

Platform Engineer

Biography

Vu, nicknamed Joe, works remotely in Hanoi, Vietnam. Previously he worked as a remote backend developer for more than two years after finishing his Master of IT in UNSW, Sydney, Australia in 2014. He is a member of the Toptal Network, which gives him the distinction of being considered one of the top developers in the world. He specializes in full-stack, highly scalable Python-Django applications, with past experiences in Java and PHP. Joe sees joining the CloudAccess.net team as a great opportunity to level up his skills and experience in a multi-national and professional team. His passion is reading and learning. He also enjoys spending time with his family, especially with his adorable daughter.

Larisa Patel

Larisa

Cloud Support Engineer

Biography

Larisa Patel works out of CloudAccess.net India and completed a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Information Technology) from the L.J. Institute of Information Technology in Ahmedabad, India. She is CCNA certified and works as a Joomla and WordPress support specialist. She also provides a lot of the site sanitization services offered by CloudAccess.net and she loves her job. When not working, Larisa enjoys spending time with friends and family and listening to music.

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Derek

Support Team Lead

Biography

Derek completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2010 at the University of Szczecin in Szczecin, Poland where his focus of study was music and information technology education. Derek was introduced to Joomla a few months before graduation, joined the CloudAccess.net Poland team, and has become one of our most passionate support people. In his free time Derek enjoys reading and gaming, but his passion is music. Between 2012 and 2018 he was also the lead singer and bass player for a Polish heavy metal band, Headbanger. Derek is involved in the local Joomla User Group in Szczecin. Between 2017 and 2018, Derek was volunteering as a support specialist in the Joomla Extensions Directory, the official repository for Joomla extensions. Since 2020 Derek has joined the Joomla Volunteer Enangement Team and became the Support Team Lead for our CloudAccess.net support team, striving to focus on providing our team the best training possible and to uphold and improve the standard of support he and his colleagues worked hard to set for the past 10 years.

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Lisa

Miller Media

Biography

Lisa is a Google Certified, Director of Web Development Services. Over the past 20+ years she has affectionately become known as the Google Chick. She is focused on creating dynamic user experiences, strategy, design, marketing, branding, usability and development of websites. She loves working with Big Brands yet holds a soft spot for the underdog. She is a Michigan girl born and raised with a passion for helping business succeed in the Google Marketplace! 

She has built meaningful relationships with brands and products through a creative balance of telling the story of the business thru technology. Her passion is to bring trans-formative experiences to the business goals of clients and the unique needs of their customers. She is more than that though, she’s fun, smart and she will take your business objectives seriously. She puts ideas into action- matching your company’s goals with our team’s passion, creativity and experience to help increase your business revenue. Let her show you how to make your web presence sizzle!

Lucas Ciesielski

Lucas

Cloud Support Engineer

Biography

Lucas works out of CloudAccess.net Poland and joined our team in 2010. He enjoys his work for three main reasons: 1) he is passionate about working with our clients and helping them resolve issues and he loves saving the day for a customer; 2) he appreciates our team a great deal and likes that he knows exactly where to go to get the right answer; and 3) he loves working with content management systems. Prior to working with CloudAccess.net, Lucas was a freelance IT specialist performing various tasks for different companies & individual clients. Lucas is in the process of completing a Bachelors Degree in Information Technology and Technology Education at the University of Szczecin. In his spare time Lucas enjoys listening to music, cycling, and have fun with friends.

Nicole

Nicole

Miller Media

Biography

Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, Nicole is a self-taught front-end web developer specializing in WordPress. She has been a part of the Miller Media team since 2010 where she takes pride in custom developing exceptional websites to meet the clients' needs. While websites are her playground, in her spare time she enjoys keeping busy with her husband and twin daughters, working out, and vacationing.

Kris Sibinski

Kris

Systems Engineer

Biography

Kris works out of Szczecin, Poland office. Before joining CloudAccess.net Poland in 2011, Kris was an IT Technician and small network administrator. He enjoys his work because of the diversity of the people he meets everyday. He enjoys seeing other people happy by resolving issues they experience, even if the task is a simple one. Kris became a certified IT Technician after completing a postgraduate course of study at the Delta Technical Institute in Szczecin, Poland in 2002. In his spare time Kris enjoys listening to music and playing his guitar. He also enjoys cycling and playing European football.

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Harold

Cloud Support Engineer

Biography

Harold studied Computer Science in college and has been a web hosting support specialist since 2013. Since that time, he's worked with a number of companies in different roles, allowing him to have a broad view on a number of hosting-related subjects. He loves working with CloudAccess.net and learning new skills on a daily basis, which allows him to do another thing he loves - providing the level of support we at CloudAccess.net proud ourselves of. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball, playing video games and watching movies.

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Igor

Chief Operating Officer

Biography

Based out of our Szczecin, Poland office since 2010, Igor solves problems throughout our entire platform by collaborating with every team within the company. Igor is very much a product manager and data analyst. He monitors the way CloudAccess.net clients use products and receive services and is very active with marketing and communications. Igor has always enjoyed visiting new places, meeting new people, experiencing different cultures, and sampling foods (a bit excessive at times) from other countries. Igor has also received a BA in English.

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Pawel

Chief Technology Officer

Biography

Pawel works remotely in Szczecin, Poland and has been with CloudAccess.net since 2011. He received a Masters Degree in Computer Science at West Pomeranian University of Technology in Poland in 2005. He enjoys his work a great deal because he is creating, building, and maintaining state-of-the-art servers and developing new services for CloudAccess.net. He is forward-thinking when constructing networks and services or when solving intricate tasks for customers. In his free time Pawel enjoys being outside, hiking, fishing, and breathing fresh air.

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Janis

Systems Engineer

Biography

Working from the CloudAccess.net Poland office, Janis is a Cloud Support Engineer but looks to branch out and join other teams within the company. Prior to his work with us, Janis worked as a customer service specialist for Microsoft. Janis finds that CloudAccess.net has a friendly atmosphere and that everyone here is very supportive. Janis is Polish, lives in Police, Poland, and is of Greek descent. In his free time Janis enjoys reading Umberto Eco books, listening to music and playing basketball.

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Trang

Platform Engineer

Biography

Trang works remotely in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is a reliable and self motivated web developer - his exceptional work flow, skills, creativity and understanding of change requests made the project grow very fast. Trang is ready to deal with difficult situations and solve the problems on time. After ten years experience with many well-known frameworks, PHP is in his blood now. To him, working is relaxing.

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Dmitry

Platform Engineer

Biography

Dmitry has been with CloudAccess.net since May of 2011. His work centers around the creation and maintenance of Apache Modules, developing and fixing platform scripts, and tending to the administration of the CloudAccess.net servers. Dmitry works remotely in Chisinau, Moldova, and received a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Moldova State University in 2009. He has also received basic Cisco training and is working towards his certification. Dmitry loves his work because of the adrenaline rush he feels when he resolves a big issue that affects a lot of clients. He also enjoys envisioning applications and how all the parts integrate. Prior to working with us, Dim created a variety of Windows and Linux-based applications that were mostly hardware-related. In his spare time, Dim enjoys practicing martial arts, being outside, and restoring classic Saab automobiles.

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Pawel

Graphic Designer & Founder

Biography

Pawel is a self-taught graphic artist and has been with the company since the beginning. All of the beautiful artwork on our site and in our Cloud Control Panel was created by Pawel. Prior to his work with CloudAccess.net, Pawel cooperated with various interactive agencies as a graphic artist. Pawel helped to develop the CloudAccess.net office in Szczecin, Poland. He enjoys his work a great deal because he loves to design new things that others will see and use. To him, it’s exciting to think that somewhere in the world people are using his business card, website, or logo designs. In his free time, Pawel enjoys gaming and spending time with his fiancée. Pawel is also a member of the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) team.

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Dolphy

Systems Engineer

Biography

Dolphy is a systems engineers who works remotely from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He enjoys helping our clients and solving complex issues. 

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Jed

Cloud Support Engineer

Biography

Jed started working in the hosting industry in 2012 as a tech support agent but has filled many roles since then. He finds fullfilment in learning new things and feels the most successful when he gets to help people. He spends his free time building WordPress websites, reading leadership books and watching movies with his family. Personally, he enjoys long drives while listening to alt-rock.