Founder, BackType
San Francisco Bay Area
Founder, BackType
San Francisco Bay Area
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
BackType is a real-time, conversational search engine that lets you see what people are saying about topics that interest you. It was funded by Y Combinator in June, 2008, and True Ventures in January, 2009.
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )
IPartee was an event management service
(Internet industry)
January 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 11 months)
UrbanTwelve is a design, development and product strategy firm focused on making web technology work for businesses
Selected Clients: CSA/NASA, Ikanos Communications (NASDAQ: IKAN), Lucor Holdings, McMaster University
(Public Company; BCE; Telecommunications industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Contributed to ongoing development of real-time SS7 data mining correlation applications for the generation and reporting of Call Detail Records of all voice traffic (including VoIP) on Bell Canada’s network
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; AIM:RKN; Telecommunications industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Redknee provides real-time monetization and personalization products, solutions and services to over 30 mobile network operators globally
B.A.Sc , Electrical Engineering , 2003 — 2007
Developed trackerless BitTorrent protocol based file-sharing services for hand-held devices with MANETs via 802.11, so they act without any underlying infrastructure, allowing unrestricted file-sharing in any environment.
Also developed a P2P file-sharing application based on Chord (MIT/Berkeley): a scalable, distributed P2P lookup protocol. <http://urbantwelve.com/chord>
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