Lev Tsypin

President, CEO

Lev co-founded ThinkShout with the goal of bringing sustainable technology to organizations working for change. Lev leads a diverse team of forward-thinking engineers, helping our clients achieve their goals through innovation and technical excellence.

With over fourteen years of experience in web development and technical architecture, it is Lev's job to constantly improve upon our engineering best practices and ensure that we remain on the cutting-edge of open source. Lev began his career in software development as a consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and Inforte Corporation in Chicago and also spent two years as the Director of Programming at Pop Art, Inc. Lev holds a bachelors degree in business administration (BBA) and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before ThinkShout, Lev ran a highly-respected consultancy, Level Online Strategy, here in Portland, OR. He spends his off hours chasing after his two boys.

Lev's Recent Blog Posts

01.14.2016

The End of the Beginning

Saying goodbye to Sean and exciting things ahead for ThinkShout.

01.11.2016

Five Years

2015 in review and the years ahead

08.06.2015

Being the Change - Becoming a B Corp

We are proud to announce our certification as a B Corporation.

04.21.2015

Drupal and Salesforce Integrations Get Some (Data) Integrity

Adding data integrity and other enterprise features to the Drupal-Salesforce integration.

08.25.2014

Deploying a Jekyll Site on GitHub, Travis CI, and Amazon S3

Using Travis CI to deploy a Jekyll based site to Amazon S3.

03.05.2014

The Technology Behind the New ThinkShout.com

How we used Jekyll, Foundation, GitHub, and Amazon S3 to build and deploy the new ThinkShout.com.

05.20.2013

RedHen at DrupalCon

DrupalCon Portlandand RedHen, the leading native Drupal CRM.

11.26.2012

Salesforce Integration with REST, OAUTH, and Entities

The Drupal Salesforce Suite has been around since Drupal 5, having undergone many transformations in trying to keep pace with both Drupal and Salesforce API changes. The result is a feature set as impressive as it is ambitious, although the incremental updates and additions have come at a cost of significant technical debt, inconsistent API usage, a monolithic architecture, and fragility.

11.05.2012