Allen Rowland has over 22 years of experience in web and software development and holds a B.A. in Computer Science, 3D Animation and Game Development from Eastern Washington University. Allen has led teams, large and small, to develop all shapes and sizes of web and software related projects. In 2013, frustrated with how the industry separated the developer from clients and bloated development costs, Allen set out to improve upon the client/developer relationship. Allen started Bluefire Interactive with the goal to keep the developer and client in contact from start to finish of each project. This developer on-demand approach has shown tremendous results.

Marc Emerson is a software developer with 19 years of experience. He’s spent the last 12 years developing in PHP CMSs including WordPress, Laravel, Joomla, and Magento. He specializes in WordPress and cross-platform app development, creating websites and apps that are intuitively built, responsive, and highly customizable by clients. Most of the sites he has built integrate with at least one external API or service, such as SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailchimp, SharpSpring, Marketo, Google Analytics, Twilio, and many others. He is a full stack developer with experience from the server level, all the way up through all things front end. His experience includes Ionic, Angular, React, CSS3, SASS, jQuery, Masonry/Isotope, Slick Slider, PDFJS, Select2, and many other JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

Marc has years of experience leveraging WordPress Blocks and Advanced Custom Fields plugins to empower non-technical users to easily update and add content to their sites without needing a developer, while keeping content layout and design within the rules of a style guide.

Josh Chavez is a Software Developer currently based out of Seattle, WA. He graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He has 4 plus years’ experience of Software Development using a wide variety of languages and technologies including C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, Azure, AWS, and SQL. His area of greatest expertise is the optimization of backend code and database management, from space, cost, and performance improvements.

Tanner Holm is a software developer with over 10 years of experience and is currently based in Logan, Utah. He specializes in the WordPress and Shopify platforms, creating themes and plugins tailored exactly to clients' needs. When he's not building in WordPress or Shopify, he's exploring favorite libraries and frameworks such as Vue.js and Laravel.