Who We Are

We are a team of veteran software architects and engineers who love the craft of software engineering and possess the depth of technical knowledge as well as the execution abilities to transform complex business initiatives into viable technology products and platforms. Our approach to software engineering is holistic -- taking into account not just the technical factors, but also product factors, organizational and human factors as well as cost, time, and operational models. Our success lies in understanding the why of software engineering practices and their fundamentals. We practice what we recommend, and our advice is always based on real world experience and results.

We are trend setters and pioneers in the space of internet and digital media technologies. Whether it is the creation of the first template-driven publishing system for the newly formed CNN.com, a client-side streaming DVR for CNN Pipeline, a community platform in record time, a video player platform that can rival or beat commercial offerings or building an enterprise class content management system that can be sold as a product due to its domain fit and quality, we have repeatedly demonstrated that we can execute and accomplish the client's business goals with solutions that have produced measurable business value and ROI.

We were early adopters of SCRUM and have an impeccable track record of delivering systems using agile development processes and practices. We have been working together for more than a decade, and have worked extensively with the engineering groups of other organizations as a team. Whether it is working as part of other groups or a separate team, we have always ensured the success of the client initiatives we participate in.

We choose projects to work on carefully; however when we commit to a project, our clients can count on us that we will get it done with quality and fidelity no matter how hard or complex the target may be.

The Team

Anwer Sultan Linked In Profile

Anwer is the founder, president, and chief technology officer of Glen plaid Technologies. Anwer is a seasoned technology executive with proven history of developing world class technology teams and innovative next generation products. Anwer has led strategic software initiatives for some of the largest brand names in digital media and internet technologies. Anwer is an accomplished system's architect, with extensive experience in designing and executing large scale systems architectures and frameworks.

Recently, Anwer founded and led the development of CoEdit Spaces, first of its kind, distributed collaborative word processing platform providing secure document collaboration in a peer to peer fashion.

Prior, Anwer headed a portfolio of software development teams at Turner including the platform development group responsible for the development of content management systems, video and community platforms behind CNN.com., CNN Money.com, CNN SI.com and Nascar.com and PGA.com as well as site and application development teams for Cartoon network, Adult swim, TBS, TNT, TCM, CNN Radio, Peachtree TV, PGA-Tour and NBA.com.

During his tenure at Turner Anwer, led development and delivery of multiple strategic business products and platforms including Enterprise scale content management system (CMS2), Broadband Video Platform (CNN Pipeline), Community Platform, (Super Deluxe), Web Services Platform (SI vault), and video player platforms (XMP). For more than a decade, CMS2 has been used to produce CNN.com, CNN Money , CNN SI, PGA tour, NASCAR with 99.9999% availability and was later sold as a product earning the distinction of first ever sale of software out of Turner.

Anwer holds Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from University of Florida and B.S in electrical engineering from N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology Karachi Pakistan with the highest honors.

Lee Steakley Linked In Profile

Lee Steakley is a seasoned software architect with over 15 years of experience creating enterprise-class systems, frameworks and services spanning the full spectrum of programming languages, platforms and technology stacks. Lee was the one of the founding technologists of CNN.com and quickly rose to the rank of a software architect and later became one of the main system architects within the platform development group. Lee specializes in scalable and high throughput software architectures and possesses extensive experience in crafting large scale, distributed and concurrent platforms and applications.

During the past decade, Lee developed multiple large scale and sophisticated platforms that became the integral backbone of the enterprise class CMS product running behind CNN.com, Money and SI.com. Beyond content management, Lee also architected and built the high-performance web services infrastructure deployed behind dynamic Turner sites like Super Deluxe and Sports Illustrated Vault project.

In the last couple of years, Lee has been part of Glenplaid Technologies where he has contributed extensively in the design and development of peer to peer replication platform as well as the Flash/ActionScript based word processor and other large scale products using emerging technologies including HTML5.

Lee holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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