Mark Friedman Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

The App Inventor Foundation (https://appnventorfoundation.org) is building a worldwide community of app inventors and educators and providing education for diverse audiences across age, culture, language, and ability.App Inventor (http://appinventor.mit.edu) is a free and open-source mobile app creation platform with the vision of enabling anyone of any age, including those who may not think of themselves as coders, to create highly functional apps for real, effective change in their communities. Co-founded 2007 by Professor Hal Abelson at MIT and myself at Google, App Inventor has grown to 15 Million registered users across 195 countries, with 1 Million monthly active users. Having been incubated at MIT for the past decade by some of the best researchers, scientists, and engineers in the world, App Inventor is now expanding beyond an MIT research project into a global nonprofit organization.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Research Affiliate with MIT CSAIL, as part of my work with MIT App Inventor.

Svit* Volunteered to tutor a group of young Ukrainian women who won the 2023 International Children's Peace PrizeTechnovation* Volunteered to tutored a group of young women building mobile apps to help support the United Nations' Sustainable Development GoalsAgentic.ai* Helped implement various DevOps functionalityPiper, Inc.* Helped launch new Piper Make product, a cloud-based platform which enables prototyping and blocks-based coding activities for learning about microprocessors.Sharehold* Helped create a B2B strategy for Sharehold's innovative account recovery product* Designed and implemented a prototype to support their B2B productMIT Center for Mobile Learning* Providing strategic advice and software engineering support for MIT App InventorCorona Carecard - a non-profit COVID-19 organization which is providing gift card support for struggling small businesses* Providing some backend (Java/Spring) programming help.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Taught a Computer Science course based on "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led software development at Piper, an award-winning edtech startup. We bring STEM/STEAM competencies: mechanical engineering, electronics, coding, and creative content development to classroom educators, students, and distance learners age 8+Piper Computer Kit empowers students and makers to build and program their 1st computer, based on the Raspberry Pi, the Raspberry Pi Edition of Minecraft and Google's Blockly. Over 1,500 schools use Piper to teach STEM, coding and design thinking.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Thunkable’s flagship product, Thunkable ✕, is a cross-platform, web-based platform for building mobile apps for professionals. It uses easy to customize app templates, enables easy connections to existing user data sources, and provides an intuitive drag and drop UI builder, and a visual blocks-based programming language.Provided technical design leadership on design, architecture and development of Thunkable ✕.Led engineering recruitment efforts.Helped lead corporate strategy as part of the company’s “tribal council” alongside founders and COO.Coded significant parts of Thunkable ✕.Managed the engineering staff, including regular, 1-1 meetings, performance reviews, career advice, brainstorming, etc.Led the technical side of the creator success team, interacting with users, helping to triage issues, providing high-leverage advice and examples, etc.Helped train junior engineers, product team members and creator success team in aspects of the product’s technical design and implementation that might help them do their jobs better.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Manager and tech lead for the App Inventor for Android project, a visual programming environment for creating Android apps.Member of Android team, working on the core Android framework and APIs, as well as the initial Android Market (now known as Google Play) app.Tech Lead in the Google Privacy Engineering group.Member of Google's Java Hiring Council.

Provided technology leadership to small dynamic healthcare software company offering staff scheduling and workload management solutions.Drove transformation of product line from client-server to multi-tiered architecture based on Microsoft's .NET technology.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led the team building the MSN Messenger server.Co-designed a general highly scalable storage mechanism to be used by Microsoft web applications.Responsible for Internet compatibility for WebTV service.

Drove design, development, and deployment of Intraspect Knowledge Manager, a knowledge management collaboration system implemented as one of the first Java server based web applications.

Austin, Texas, Us

Designed and built Oracle's first HTTP proxy server.Championed use of Java within Oracle.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Led 6-member team in creating a programming environment for use by MIT students.Designed an experimental visual programming environment for Lisp (Scheme).Continued development of the MIT Scheme programming system.

B.A., Computer Science And Artificial Intelligence

Phd Program, Computer Science

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