Aaron Patzer

Current

• Founder at Mint Software

Past

• Architect at Nascentric, Inc
• Engineer at IBM
• Senior Research Assistant at Fraser Research

• Software Engineer at Miadora.com
• Founder at Getawebsite.com

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Education

• Duke University
• Princeton University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Aaron

Connections

418 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Aaron Patzer’s Summary

I am the Founder and CEO of Mint Software Inc.

Mint is building a free, simple, and secure personal finance web-app. Designed to be effortless, Mint consolidates your financial life in one place. Easily see how much you have, how much you owe, and where your money goes. Advanced alerts notify you before you bounce a check or forget to pay a bill. Patent pending algorithms even show you personalized ways to save and make more money. If your finances could use organization without effort, Mint is for you.

Mint is hiring: http://www.mint.com/jobs.html

Aaron Patzer’s Specialties:

Business: Deal-making, P&L responsibility; recruiting; starting companies.
Software: Java, C++, C, Algorithms (10 patents issued or pending)
Hardware: Verilog, VHDL, verification, EDA tools development

Aaron Patzer’s Experience

• Founder

  Mint Software

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Mint makes effortless online personal finance software.
  
  As Founder, I've done pretty much everything:
  • Business plan, market validation, financial projections including P&L and Cash-Flows
  
  • Systems and database architecture, prototypes and validation of core algorithms
  
  • Lead developer, Java J2EE, mySQL.
  
  • Recruiting and team development

• Architect

  Nascentric, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  August 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  • Lead architect: design partitioning and compilation, event-based circuit simulation
  
  • Technical lead of San Jose office, including team development, mentoring, support of applications-engineers and sales.
  
  • Achieved 10-100x speed-up over baseline simulation from two patent-pending inventions
  
  • Transformed ad-hoc recruiting efforts by using standardized technical questions for consistent candidate comparison. Personally screened and reported on 50+ applicants.

• Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Semiconductors industry)

  March 2004 — August 2004 (6 months)

  Hardware and software development supporting the Cell micro-processor (PlayStation 3 chip).
  
  • Inventor and architect of two patent-pending methods for processor test and verification
  
  • VHDL coding, synthesis, and timing for an embedded hardware analyzer
  
  • Object-oriented C++ application and API for control of embedded hardware
  
  • Architect of several widely used tools: scan-chain coverage, circuit topology validation, and static power estimation.

• Senior Research Assistant

  Fraser Research

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2003 — September 2003 (5 months)

  Recruited by former AT&T Chief Scientist Sandy Fraser to develop network architectures scalable to 100 Mb/s and 100 million homes.
  
  • Developed the architecture, algorithms, and protocols for achieving 50 ms restoration of service after link or node failure in an access optical network.
  
  • Java-based graphical tool for visualizing physical and logical network topology.
  
  • Graphical network design tool to optimize fiber costs for a given population.

• Software Engineer

  Miadora.com

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

• Founder

  Getawebsite.com

  (Internet industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Aaron Patzer’s Education

• Duke University

  BSEE , Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering

• Princeton University

  MSEE , Electrical Engineering, Algorithms

Additional Information

Aaron Patzer’s Websites:

• My Company

Aaron Patzer’s Groups:

FRC CEOs

•    SF Bay Area Ivy Plus Alumni

Aaron Patzer’s Honors:

Finalist, National Collegiate Inventor's Competition.
3rd Place, Princeton Business Plan Competition, "Genomic Acceleration"
3rd Place, DAC Student Design Competition, "Highly Parallel Multiple-Alignment Genome Sequence Matching Processor"