Who We Are
Partnership of Professionals
Cantina has built a partnership of professionals who love technology, want to work on interesting projects, and use best of breed technologies and methodologies to deliver projects efficiently by applying best practices and “common sense” to the business problem at hand. At Cantina, we focus on superb delivery of technology solutions that achieve business results.
Aaron Stevenson
Aaron, a veteran Java developer with over seven years experience, has worked in a number of different industries in a variety of roles. During this time, he has solved business problems in the financial, insurance, retail, document management, and education space using a wide variety of technologies. His current passions...
Adam Stachelek
Adam is a co-founder and Principal Technical Consultant at Cantina and has over ten years experience in web application design and architecture as well as experience in multimedia production (audio and video) and delivery. At Cantina, Adam has been involved in every manner of project from CMS-driven marketing platforms and...
Adam Kenger
With over eight years of experience as a web-application developer, database administrator, system admin, and project lead, Adam has worked to build custom applications for some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. While specializing in ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS and other related web technologies, Adam...
Alec Francesconi
Alec is SVP, Client Services at Cantina and runs Cantina's Online Video Practice Group. Alec brings a decade of internet consulting experience to Cantina. Prior to joining us, Alec was with Molecular and Edgewater Technologies where he managed initiatives for clients such as Nikon, Delta Dental, BlueCross BlueShield, Seligman Data...
Alicia Sedlock
After almost choosing to follow a career path in forensic science, Alicia realized that at the end of the day, building websites is way more fun and satisfying than writing lab reports. She wants to help make the web fun, exciting, and usable both for developers and users, embracing coding...
Allison Sigrist
Allison comes to Cantina with over 10 years of front-end web development and consulting experience. Several years ago she was bitten by the open-source bug and became a convert, particularly to the Drupal CMS, going so far as to record a remix of the Drupal Song in tribute. Regardless of...
Andrew Paradise
Andrew has 10 years experience seeking out and conquering software challenges. Andrew studied Computer Science and Fine Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he learned to work both smarter and harder. As for technology, he appreciates the expressiveness of Ruby as well as the structure of Java. When pressed, he...
Chris Lamothe
A developer, designer, and amateur hammer-slinger living in Nahant, Massachusetts, Chris is a Principal at Cantina. A twelve year veteran in the user experience field, Chris has worked with Philips, NESN, Brightcove, Geiger, Harvard Business School, Showtime, Yankee Candle, Cognos, Analog Devices, Fleet Bank, and others. Chris helped to create...
Dan Adams
A self-described generalist, Dan brings a passion for all aspects of the software engineering craft. Dan comes most recently from iFactory where he served as Principal Software Engineer and head of engineering. Additionally, he acted as technical lead and architect for iFactory's online publishing platform as well as numerous client-services...
Dan Barron
Dan's past in the Web sphere is a convoluted journey from an early exposure to Perl and CGI through PHP's early days and later a firm basis in Java and ActionScript. Years later he discovered Ruby on Rails and learned that he actually can be happy doing Web Development. He...
David Fox
David has over twelve years of experience in all phases of web application design and architecture on all major platforms, with a concentration in open source technologies. Prior to Cantina, David worked as Director of Technology for Crunch Brand Communications, Senior Web Developer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Lead UI Developer...
Dmitri Serbarinov
Graduated Bridgewater State University as a Bachelor of Computer Science. An enthusiast of database systems and natural user interfaces, Dmitri cut his teeth on multitouch gesture-driven applications, with work featured at trade show booths of industry leaders country-wide. Applied a long burning passion for mechanical tinkering, DIY and science fiction...
Matthew Crist
Often going by the nickname "Hondo", Matthew Crist is an innovative user experience developer at Cantina with a passion for good design and simplicity. Matthew enjoys working across the entire range of user experience from conception and design to efficient development during implementation. He has been helping companies craft solutions...
Jay Dolan
Jay has 9 years of professional software development experience, and 5 years in consulting. His areas of expertise include enterprise content management, e-commerce, and media and publishing. He has consulted for PUMA, The Washington Times, and The Limited Brands among others. Jay has an affinity...
Mark Hewitt
Mark Hewitt is the SVP, Sales & Marketing at Cantina. As such, he is responsible for providing leadership and coordination of Cantina’s sales and marketing functions. Mark is chartered with developing and implementing the sales and marketing growth strategy, analyzing/monitoring results against goals, and providing guidance for future company direction....
Matt Chisholm
Matt co-founded Cantina in 2007 as an emerging technology consultancy. With over twelve years of experience in consulting, technology architecture, development and social networking Matt is building a new model of consultancy that uses the talents of hands-on technologists who understand business goals and concerns. He has worked with consumer-oriented...
Matt Venables
Matt is a ten-year veteran developer who has spent his professional career developing high-performance web apps as well as desktop and security software. He is expert in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Grails, and JSP as well as Assembly, C, C++, and Java. Matt has been an instrumental developer on projects...
Mitchel Ahern
Mitchel has been in digital marketing and communications for a very long time with titles like SYSOP, Webmaster, Digital Media Producer, Product Manager, and Director of Communications for companies such as One to One and Eastern Acoustic Works and clients like Aegon, UPS and Royal...
Nancy Decker
Nancy is an Associate Technical Consultant at Cantina. A recent graduate of St. Lawrence University with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics her studies included Javascript, HTML5, CSS and PHP. She mastered Drupal during a research project at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Nancy is currently focused...
Steve Pember
Steve brings over seven years of experience in a variety of computing fields. The majority of this time has been spent developing rich web applications, but he has also developed mobile phone applications and studied machine learning, data mining, and social network analysis. Over the years he has worked as...
George White
George set out to be a zoologist and now he is a fifteen year veteran with broad experience in software development and architecture. Go figure. He has worked in many domains, including Web applications, mobile platforms, content management, internet-connected desktop applications, multimedia, video, networking and systems architecture. George unintentionally but...
Tim Wagner
Tim thinks of himself as a passionate problem solver. He has been seeking out and solving business problems for over 7 years, creating solutions for companies both large and small. Particularly enjoying the fast paced environments of startups, Tim’s last role was as Lead Software Architect at Powerhouse Dynamics, developing...