Where did you come from?
I came from Chatterfly - a mobile neighborhood rewards platform.
Why did you come here?
To explore the endless possibilities for the influence of local commerce through the
lens of mobile.
What do you work on and what's the coolest thing you've worked on since
you've been here?
I develop Plum District's mobile applications. The coolest thing I've worked on are
mobile applications themselves.
What's your favorite thing about being here?
I love working with smart and talented engineers. I also really enjoy hearing how
the products we are building are empowering moms.
What are you excited about next?
I'm excited to transform the mobile architecture to afford greater flexibility during
growth.
What's one fun fact about yourself?
I love college football. More generally, I love colleges - I've visited over 40
campuses nationwide.
Where did you come from?
After graduating from Stanford and experiencing the ups and downs of the dot com
bubble, I was a mostly free lance developer until I joined Plum District right after its
launch in June 2010.
Why did you come here?
Honestly, it was because Megan (our CEO) emailed my friend in search of
developers, and I was sitting next to him when he opened the email. But once I
joined, I knew that the combination of the people, the product, and the technology
was something special.
What do you work on and what's the coolest thing you've worked on since
you've been here?
At the beginning it was a little bit of everything (Dave and I were the only
developers for months), now I'm doing lots of back-end work and integration with
other companies like Salesforce, Facebook and Google. One thing I'm really enjoying
right now is playing around with Facebook and all the possibilities of leveraging the
power of their Open Graph.
What's your favorite thing about being here?
Having the right balance of being able to make an impact on the business yet also
being surrounded by really bright people who collectively can make a big difference
in the industry.
What are you excited about next?
Seeing where 2012 takes us. We've built a solid base and have a ton of great new
ideas in the pipeline!
What's one fun fact about yourself?
I used to play guitar in a few bands and would tour around in a van and play shows
in some of the most random places you'll ever find.
Where did you come from?
I came to Plum District from many places. I worked as a JBoss consultant for a year
at Unisys. I built a loan/credit processing system at Compucredit. I sharded/scaled
the travel software at Rearden Commerce. I built out an anti-spam team at Ning. I
recently took a year off to study statistics & machine learning.
Why did you come here?
I want to build a data-driven culture at Plum District. With the right tools and
insights, we can make amazing decisions to better serve our customers.
What do you work on and what's the coolest thing you've worked on since
you've been here?
I run Analytics at Plum District. It's a combination of reporting & analytics. The
coolest thing I've worked on is setting up Flume & Hadoop for pulling data from
various places into S3 for analysis.
What's your favorite thing about being here?
I get to work on hard, unsolved problems for consumers and local businesses every
day. I have yet to be bored!
What are you excited about next?
Many things:
- Predictive modeling tools
- Ad-hoc visualization on top of Hadoop
- A streamlined analytics solution for engineers and non-engineers
What's one fun fact about yourself?
I used to perform Improv Comedy professionally.
We're awesome. Plum District attracts the brightest, most creative, most fearsome force around. We work hard, think smart, and dream big. We're passionate and tireless and have each other's back. Sound like you?
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