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San Francisco, CA, US

Remote First, US

The Modern Accounting Platform

San Francisco, CA, US

The Giant Pixel was different than your average startup. We were building multiple projects that we hoped to spin off into their own companies. Our goal was to find people who are not just talented, but also entrepreneurial who will work on the projects and then be part of the founding team when we spin off the company. We shared experience, code, design.

SAN Francisco, California, US

Nama was modern project management with real-time messaging. As your team collaborates, messages are tied directly to your project or tasks, where they belong. No more using third party tools only to have information fall through the cracks.Nama uses instant feedback and a "no surprises" design philosophy to keep your entire organization up to date about.

New York, NY, US

San Francisco, California, US

Welcome to the world of Local Business Intelligence!While there I: Drove to completion of an integration with a large media partner Created a team dedicated to high-output, dependability, and creativity. Revamped the project management process to remove uncertainty Extended our architecture to be able to handle and process millions of sources that were.

Built pretty much everything with the help of a great designer and a web programmer.Backend in RoR.HTML5 version of Tello App with JQTouch (modified).PhoneGapp'ed version of Tello App for iPhone.Facebook/Twitter oauth connections.Facebook/Twitter publishers.EC2 datacenter.GeolocationMobileLaunched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010.

US

I was brought on at GameLayers to take over the CTO position from one of the founders. While there we made a change from a toolbar based MMO (PMOG) game that couldn't find revenue to developing facebook games. With 2 other engineers and 2 creative, we were able to get DictatorWars out the door in 9 weeks, architected by me such that we were able to get our.

New York, NY, US

Doostang was written by a team of 15 in Russia. Delivery was too long, features were hit or miss, so the founders wanted to bring engineering local - so they hired me. With 6 engineers, we brought out a site in 3.5 months (released exactly on planned date), from an MS/SQLServer/ASP/C/.Net lbase to Ruby on Rails (with some Java/Lucene/Solr). Post launch ran.

Burbank, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Xoom is taking on the remittance industry, providing an online consumer experience and a B2B solution allowing third parties to leverage Xoom's network. Helped the CTO bring his product to the next level. Started as Director over 1 engineer, 8 months later promoted to VP, with a staff of 30. Hired a dedicated VP of Eng and took over as CTO. Responsible for.

Redwood City, CA, US

Hands-on manager and lead of the backend document analytics system. System was a home-grown distributed grid, analyzing documents from all over the electronic world (web, closed caption feeds, monthly magazine edumps). When I joined the company's system was capable of analyzing ~15,000 documents a day with 6 machines. When I left, the grid was doing.

Tiny company of past-game industry folks trying to build a DirectX equivalent for hand held devices and cell phones. A few years too soon. Company ran out of cash. I was working on a COMish like version of an input system. Toward the end I also became involved with the server side of things and reviewed the architecture presented by an outsourced firm.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Yahoo kept a few of the original eGroups engineers to maintain the groups system.

dot com baby! eGroups was my first job delving into web development, python and a large group of engineers. I was mainly responsible for the code for all the pages on the web site, and did most of the porting to C when we were bought by Yahoo!. Worked with Apache, CGI's, python, C, MySQL, email, MIME, parsers, and developed the "wonder-tool", used to track.

Back in the day I knew more about the X Window System then most people could dream of. With my experience in cross platform architecture at Wolfram Research, I jumped into Brio's multi-platform team (ok, the team was 2 people, my manager and a contractor) and took over the unix version. I brought the code up to speed with the C++ spec, ported it to linux.

Champaign, IL, US

First job out of college, actually worked for Wolfram during my last semester.I was brought on to write the Unix version of the Mathematica frontend after 2 other failed attempts. Our team started with 3 folks, and grew to about 7 or so. After that many years the code itself was in the 500,000 lines of code range (all C in those days...) What did I do.