Creator Of Glitch
New York, Ny, Us
Conceived, developed, and implemented our new product Glitch.com. Built the team up from zero to seven people. Because of our small team size we all are excellent generalists. My skills include technical leadership, prototyping, design, product development, frontend html+css, Node.js, bash, Postgres, database design, api design, systems architecture, operations and monitoring, continuous integration and deployment, AWS automation using CloudFormation. If something needs to get done I get it done or delegate to those who know better.Over the course of two years we built the product from a prototype to a highly successful player in an emerging market. We're able to deploy code to production as rapidly as we fix bugs and implement features (under five minutes!) thanks to our extensive test suite and automated deployment pipeline.There's much more to product development than technical excellence alone. I also focus on the philosophical and psychological components of how communities interact with technology. Some of my major influences are Maria Montessori, Marshall McLuhan, C. G. Jung, Bret Victor, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay, Gerald Weinberg, and John Whitney. It is important to understand the interactions of the system as a whole and how it relates to the broader social and technological environment.