People
Meet 1950 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Seattle's tech scene.
Mike Christian
Creative Director; @microsoft shipping apps such as ESPN, MLB, UFC and NBA in the Interactive TV space. TV, Film, Games and Comic Book experience. IP creation
Safinaaz Rawji
@microsoft Alumni, Interened @rim, Currently a Sr. Technical PM @appnique. I get things done and make magic happen.
Troy Ma
CEO @sparktrend • Led teams @microsoft on Bing Image Search • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Walter Smith
20-year developer at @apple (Newton) and @microsoft (Windows, IE, MSN). Now on my second startup, @carezone.
Aaron Khoo
Director of Engineering at 9Slides, Co-Founder and CTO at PaidPunch, Principal Dev Lead at Microsoft. PhD from Northwestern University.
Ash Wahi
Technologist with experience building platforms, cloud services and consumer software. Worked at Facebook & Microsoft. Studied MBA at Columbia GSB
Chris Russell
Founder @voqel • Worked at @truste, @oracle-corporation • Investor @truste, @wageworks • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Clare Shi
Owner, @impressity Inc 10 years computer science background Strong business background (UW MBA) Worked at @microsoft, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Evan Chen
Works at @amazon
Jonathan Reichhold
Engineer. Worked to make the fail whale extinct at Twitter. Launched rockets and airplanes
Karyn Zuidinga
Founder and CEO of Analytic Design Group, a visionary user experience consulting firm. We work mainly in the digital space, helping our clients innovate.
Michael Kurtzman
CEO and Founder of Currently; started 3 new businesses in Fortune 500 and small companies, participated in 2 exits, 1 merger, and a spinout.
Tolis Dimopoulos
Founder @sophos-law • Studied at @purdue-university, @university-of-richmond
Wes Carr
CTO of Trufl. Previously Senior Software Eng at @google.
Dave Shull
Worked at @echostar, @dish-network • Studied at @harvard-university, @oxford-university
Meredith J. Powell
Creator, Connector & Sometime CEO. Co-Founder of The Next Big Thing Foundation. Passionate activist & speaker for women in tech & entrepreneurship.
Rodrigo De Castro
Works at @google (ex- @amazon and @microsoft) • Founded @mercado-de-servicos Studied at @universidade-de-sao-paulo
Salil Navgire
Data Scientist at @rank-style , Machine learning and Natural Language Processing Enthusiast, studied at @nyu
Sam Teplitsky
15 Year Product Development/Distribution Specialist for companies like Motorola, MTV, @facebook, Universal Music, MLB, and @microsoft
Ty Frackiewicz
C3PO, Co-Founder @onthego-platforms • Studied at @montana-state-university University Technology is my life!
Yujin Ghim
Co-Founder and marketing multi-tool at @myunfold; Learner, Leader, Data Sleuth, Curious, All Around Good Guy, ManUtd.
Aaron Sun
Perpetual Student. Raised capital for @runnable, Formerly worked with @amazon, @microsoft, and @salesforce.
Chris Daltas
CEO of Hundo. Design @Bungie Studio's - Branding the video game Halo. UIX @xbox. Consumer Research @snapvine
jason warren
Roam & Wander CEO. 3rd startup. Dartmouth. Led cloud services division at HTC, reporting to CEO. Rose through product into M&A at Microsoft, Motorola.