John Backus Email & Phone Number

San Francisco , California , Us

Sisters, Oregon, Us

Cognito is focused on simplifying identity verification through cutting-edge technology integrations and partnerships. We empower you with the most advanced technology ever created for optimizing the customer signup experience, developer-first infrastructure, and an industry first full spectrum verification solution.

Miami, Florida, Us

Decentralized identity and credit

Reston, Virginia, Us

Developed product alongside CEO (http://kzo.tv/ - still in closed beta). Product aggregated videos from many different video hosting websites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc), various comment streams (YouTube comments, Tweets, Facebook comments, etc), and many available user metric services (YouTube metrics, Google analytics, Vimeo analytics, Facebook user info, etc) into one single universal player and comment feed that provided all available viewer analytics on a single platform. Implemented many new technologies into product (Redis NoSQL database, BackboneJS javascript framework, Coffeescript language, Jasmine unit-testing suite, etc).

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Started spring break of freshman year packing and shipping boxes. Offered role as a programming intern after automating excel process (in free time) with several web crawlers. Wrote in-house management applications for handling hundreds of requests from Campus Representatives across the country, multiple advanced web scrapers with GUIs and data cleansing exports, back-end and front-end functionality for the website, and automation tools for implementing user information from acquired competitors. Worked 40+ hours/week.