Our story
When we (Neal and Darshan) were in high school, we each had a huge
writing assignment. We found that the most tedious part of our
paper wasn't the writing or the researching, but the bibliography
itself. We had to constantly refer to our citation guides to
figure out how to cite sources and where to put the periods, commas,
and underlines.
Needless to say, we thought this would be a perfect application
for the Web. After a few months of figuring out all the bibliography
rules (Neal) and coding the site (Darshan), the first version of EasyBib
launched in February 2001.
Eight years later, EasyBib is now the largest online bibliography
site on the Web, visited by millions of students per month. We've
expanded our team with some of the smartest people out there, and
are going to continue building products that make life easier, faster,
and better for our users.
Our team
- Darshan Somashekar is from Chicago and lives in New York City.
He co-founded ImagineEasy Solutions with Neal. Darshan graduated
from Brown University with a BA in Public Policy. Darshan also worked at
Bain & Company and co-founded drop.io.
- Neal Taparia is from Chicago and currently lives in New York City as well.
Neal co-founded ImagineEasy Solutions with Darshan. Neal attended Northwestern as an economics
major and graduated in 2006, after which he took a short stint at Lehman Brothers (but intelligently left before its demise...).
- Till Klampaeckel is from Chemnitz, Germany, and now lives in Berlin.
He is the force behind the computing infrastructure that makes ImagineEasy run. Till
contributes to a number of well-known PHP projects, including
RoundCube and PEAR.
- Emry Downinghall manages the front-line operations at ImagineEasy, handling
customer support and advertising sales. He graduated from Temple University and currently
lives in Philadelphia. Emry is originally from Stroudsburg, PA.
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Jessica Bacques handles the school relations for EasyBib School Edition.
She graduated from NYU and currently lives in New York City. She is
originally from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Cruz Fernandez is from the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has an intermediate degree on Systems Analysis at the
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and is now finishing his thesis on Systems Engineering. His experience on leading
development teams includes working for the government of Buenos Aires
City and
Santander Bank on PHP, JAVA and .NET
projects.
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Alejandro Sanchez is from San Miguel, just outside Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has a degree in Informatics
Engineering from the UAI (Universidad Abierta Interamericana) in Buenos Aires. Alejandro has led development
teams for PHP projects and participated in the development of well known products such as
uTest.
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Rodrigo Arce is also from the city of Buenos Aires. He's a Computer Science major at the Universidad de Buenos
Aires (UBA) and has participated in several development teams for PHP projects such as AllMyData
and CNICE (Centro Nacional de Investigacion Educativa) for the Education Ministry of Spain.
