Entrepreneur, Hacker, Engineer, Founder of BetaHouse
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Founder and Partner at Virosity
- Founder at BetaHouse
- Past
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- Principal Software Engineer at Eons
- Senior Software Engineer at Maven Networks (now part of Yahoo!)
- Software Consultant at New Tilt
- Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Cambridge Systematics
- Software Engineer at ATG
- Education
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- Harvard University
- Northeastern University
- Connections
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428
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- Industry
- Internet
- Websites
Jon Pierce’s Summary
Entrepreneurially-minded technologist experienced in architecting and building large web applications. Founder of BetaHouse, a coworking space for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives. Actively involved in organizing local technology events, such as BarCamp Boston and DevHouse Boston.
Interests include social software, location-based services, mobile applications, music, big data, visualization, analytics, search, collective intelligence, open web standards (e.g. OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, Microformats, OpenSocial, Jabber / XMPP), cloud computing and ubiquitous computing.
Jon Pierce’s Specialties:
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solr, Lucene, Sphinx, Memcached, Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB), Git, Subversion, OS X, Linux / Unix
Jon Pierce’s Experience
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Founder and Partner
Virosity
(Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Virosity is a small web development shop specialized in building applications for early-stage startups. For our first client, we built a white label content management system and local search platform that helps people discover and engage with nonprofits in their area. Within its first few months, the platform was deployed to four of the top ten newspaper sites in the country, Boston.com, SFGate.com, Chron.com and AJC.com, with several more to follow.
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Founder
BetaHouse
(Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
BetaHouse is a coworking space in Cambridge, Massachusetts for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives. Beyond providing flexible workspace for independents, our goal is to help foster community, collaboration and innovation. As part of this mission, we regularly host community-oriented events such as user group meetups, hackfests, mixers and Jellies. BetaHouse has been featured in or on the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Mass High Tech, Network World, GigaOM and WBZ, among others.
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Principal Software Engineer
Eons
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
July 2006 — February 2007 (8 months)
Eons is a social networking site for baby boomers. Led development on various parts of the site.
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Senior Software Engineer
Maven Networks (now part of Yahoo!)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)
Maven Networks is an Internet TV and broadband video platform used by major media publishers to manage, monetize and syndicate their content. Maven was acquired by Yahoo! in February 2008. Developed parts of the publisher console, media player and server.
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Software Consultant
New Tilt
(Internet industry)
August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)
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Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead
Cambridge Systematics
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
January 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Cambridge Systematics provides consulting services to various transportation agencies. Led development teams on multiple $1M+ projects, established best practices, helped set direction for the group, and led much of the recruiting effort in tripling the group's size.
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Software Engineer
ATG
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ARTG; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 4 months)
ATG is a leading vendor of e-commerce and personalization technology. Earlier in its history, it was also among the first Java application server vendors. Performed API-level testing of the application server and various libraries.
Jon Pierce’s Education
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Harvard University
Software Engineering and IT 2000 — 2002
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Northeastern University
BS , Biochemistry , 1993 — 1999
Summa cum laude
Additional Information
Jon Pierce’s Websites:
Jon Pierce’s Groups:
Web Innovators Group, MIT Enterprise Forum, BarCamp Boston, DevHouse Boston, Boston Ruby Group, OpenCoffee
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New England Consumer Technology Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Jon Pierce’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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