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Ray Leoni
Ray Leoni is an American engineer and agile software development company/provider based in the New York City metropolitan area with nearshore delivery centers located in Mar Del Plata and Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The company specializes in developing web products, mobile applications, video content delivery technology, gaming entertainment, cloud computing solutions, and big data analysis and visualization systems for Fortune 1000 and venture-backed companies. Devspark was co-founded by Chris Cali, Francisco Amadeo, and Mark Peter Davis on March 5, 2012.

History
DevSpark was founded on March 5, 2012 by Chris Cali, Francisco Amadeo, and Mark Peter Davis. Prior to their work as founders, Chris Cali and Francisco Amadeo were CEO and CTO of Panvidea, respectively, and formed DevSpark after its acquisition by T3Media.

Nearshoring
DevSpark chose to locate its nearshore delivery centers in Buenos Aires Province because, among other reasons, province is one hour removed from the Eastern Standard Time Zone (along with the east coast of the United States), allowing for improved communication between development teams.

Web Applications
DevSpark builds scalable, transactional web applications for consumers using Open Source technologies. Examples of their consumer-facing projects include a video licensing marketplace, subscription movie streaming service, and a salesforce-integrated project pricing tool.

Mobile Applications
DevSpark builds responsive websites, mobile apps and API layers. Examples of their mobile work includes authenticated streaming TV iOS and Android apps, API endpoint migration to the Apigee Gateway for a Fortune 500 consumer brand.

Video Content
DevSpark builds technology to prepare video content, deliver cross-platform experiences and monetize video assets. Examples of their video content projects include a video archival platform and cloud-based video transcoder for a Fortune 500 consulting firm.

Gaming
DevSpark creates games, provides porting services (ex. HTML5 to Flash), and develops the platform infrastructure necessary for games to scale across a variety of devices and platforms. In addition to new game development, examples of their gaming entertainment projects include a mobile state lottery app, in-game ad integration, and payment system integration.

Cloud Computing
DevSpark ports existing applications and solves software problems using public, private or hybrid cloud technologies. DevSpark also offers DevOps (an integration of software development and IT operations) to automate deployment to the cloud for their clients. Examples of DevSpark's cloud-based projects include creating a video processing workflow solution using Amazon Simple Workflow and an elastic scaling functionality for well-known video processing solution.

Big Data
DevSpark assists clients to build analysis and visualization systems that utilize data warehousing, and relational and NoSQL databases. Examples of DevSpark's projects involving Big Data include building a publisher portal for social advertising reach reporting, an internal tool for adtech company to monitor publisher metrics, and a low-latency API with Redis cache over Oracle Data Warehouse.

Leadership
Devspark’s leadership team is comprised of three co-founders, Chris Cali (CEO), Francisco Amadeo (CTO), and Mark Peter Davis (CFO), a Vice President, Christopher White, and four delivery center management leaders, Diego Espada (Site Manager), Carina Bel (Site Manager), Claudio Martinez Crovetto (Operations Manager), and Valentina de Loof (Talent Manager).