Michael Spinosa is a high-tech guy with his own company,
Unleashed Technologies, developing web solutions in Columbia, Maryland. But his preferred tool for making a mark on the IT industry sounds decidedly low-tech: "It's like Play-Doh; it's amazing what you can do with it."
He's describing Drupal, a free software system that allows developers to customize content management and delivery through open-source architecture. It's also enabling Unleashed to add to its team in 2011. From its founding in 2007 with two employees and barely $1000 of working capital, Unleashed is riding $1.6 million in revenue in 2010 and hoping to double its current staff to 30 with $3 million by the end of this year. "I'm looking for good people and we are hiring very actively," Spinosa says.
In addition to individual personnel additions, Unleashed is acquiring the operations of some smaller area tech firms whose own endeavors haven't been as successful or satisfying as they would like. "We're always on the lookout for small web firms where maybe it's four or five guys who aren't enjoying the ride but who want to do great work." With new versions of Drupal and open-source e-commerce platform Magento -- which Unleashed also uses to build its products -- now hitting the net, Unleashed and its employees are eager to keep tinkering and growing.
Writer: Sam Hopkins
Source: Michael Spinosa, Unleashed Technologies