About Artician

What's Artician?

Artician is a community for creative professionals. We allow artists, designers, photographers, and other creative individuals to build completely personalized portfolios for free. Artician provides an effortless way for anyone to create and manage a portfolio in a professional or personal environment.

Artician loves to promote creative talent by featuring individuals and their work to gain exposure and recognition. We give you powerful portfolio management tools, and fully customizable profiles, along with a social twist to help creative professionals and freelancers build a strong content-oriented web presence.

Artician.com is reshaping and innovating the creative web space for people around the globe.

Eric Zhivalyuk

Eric Zhivalyuk / Founder & CEO

Designer / Developer - Front-end Development, GUI, Marketing

Eric is a professional web designer, developer and internet enthusiast. He spends most of his time seeking out and developing new and exciting web-related project and ventures. Despite his hectic schedule and perpetual lack of sleep, he manages to dedicate much of his time and effort expanding the Artician Network. Eric is exceedingly motivated in his day to day work, and is known to have an unrivaled work ethic when it comes to doing things right. Eric continues to take upon new projects and clientele channeled through the company's corporate corner, Artician Web Development Studios. Eric specializes in creating high-end web projects that complement aggressive marketing, and innovative web services. Although Eric's everlasting enjoyment of web2.0, social networks, and other geeky stuff is pleasant, sitting in a chair for the last several years hasn't done his back any good. So, occasionally he'll enjoy a night out, away from all this "interweb" madness.

Eric is 21 years old, and currently living in Newtown, PA.

Henry Paradiz

Henry Paradiz / Co-Founder

Developer - Artician Platform Development, Programming, Logistics

Henry has been working on the Artician platform since day one. With nearly a decade of experience in the industry of Information Technology and back-end web development, Henry has laid the internal foundation that supports Artician. He is attending Temple University for a Bachelors of Science in Information Science & Technology, and also teaches on topics of today's crucial web technologies. Henry is always five steps ahead of the game... We are still trying to figure out if he is actually a human.

Henry is 22 years old, and currently living in Philadelphia, PA.

Brandon Lis

Brandon Lis / Co-Founder

Developer - Artician Platform Development, Programming, Data Optimization

Brandon has been a part of the Artician Team not too long after it's conceptualization in 2006. He plays a major role in the day to day backend development and maintenance of Artician as well as the platform as a whole. Exceptionally knowledgeable in data handling and optimization, Brandon has been able to work through some of the toughest difficulties Artician had to face while handling vast loads of media and user data. Brandon works with PHP, MySQL, Javascript, and XHTML, but his knowledge far surpasses that of logical programming languages. Never afraid of a tough challenge, Brandon is constantly pushing improvements that will keep Artician running smooth for the long haul.

Brandon is 26 years old, and currently living in San Marcos, CA.

Chris Alfano

Chris Alfano / Server Architect

Developer - Server Administration and Optimization

Chris mostly works behind the scenes on Artician Server Infrastructure. We call him the server nazi, but that's only due to his strict rules and regulations in maintaining clean and organized servers. Chris pretty much sits in a linux command terminal all day and talks to machines... No, really. Aside from that Chris has a great handle on almost all aspects of systems design, development and implementation and is able to thrash up any task thrown his way. If it weren't for Chris, our servers would need to be rushed into surgery .

Chris is 22 years old, and currently living in Philadelphia, PA.

Daniel Gallegos

Daniel Gallegos / Community Development

Core Staff Community Support, User Relations, Moderation, Designer

Danny is profoundly involved with the community on an everyday basis. He communicates directly with Artician's users and acts as a representative for the things they want to see done. Feedback, support, and user relations are what keep Artician Developers in the know of where to head next. Along with community involvement, he also handles some minimal design work like creating pretty skins for Artician Userpages. Believe it or not, Danny also has super powers and is able to post 25 comments before you can blink your eyes.

Danny is 24 years old, and currently living in Tolleson, AZ

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