Jon Pierce

Current

Founding Member and Trustee at The Awesome Foundation
Founder at BetaHouse

Past

Founder and Partner at Virosity
Principal Software Engineer at Eons
Senior Software Engineer at Maven Networks (acquired by Yahoo!)

Software Consultant at New Tilt
Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Cambridge Systematics
Software Engineer at ATG

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Education

Harvard University
Northeastern University

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Jon Pierce’s Summary

Hacker, entrepreneur, technologist, advisor and community organizer.

Founder of BetaHouse, a coworking space for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives.

Founding Member and Trustee of The Awesome Foundation, which awards monthly grants, no strings attached, to people doing awesome things in the world.

Organizer of local startup and technology events like Jelly Talks, BarCamp Boston, DevHouse Boston, Open Government Hack Day and Music Hack Day.

Interested in social software, location-based services, mobile applications, music, big data, data visualization, analytics, search, collective intelligence, cloud computing, ubiquitous computing, open web standards.

Jon Pierce’s Specialties:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, JavaScript, jQuery, Java, Firefox extensions, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solr, Lucene, Sphinx, Memcached, Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3), Google App Engine, Git, Subversion, OS X, Linux / Unix

Jon Pierce’s Experience

Founding Member and Trustee

The Awesome Foundation

(Philanthropy industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

The Awesome Foundation gives out monthly grants, no strings attached, to people doing awesome things in the world.
Founder

BetaHouse

(Internet industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

BetaHouse is a coworking community in Cambridge, MA for entrepreneurs, technologists, creatives, makers and independents. In addition to serving as a shared work space, we also host community-oriented events: user group meetups, DevHouses & Hackfests, Jellies & Jelly Talks, group lunches & dinners, the occasional party, etc. Our mission is to support and encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, community and collaboration. BetaHouse has been featured in the Boston Globe, Mass High Tech, the Christian Science Monitor, Network World, GigaOM, WBZ and others.
Founder and Partner

Virosity

(Internet industry)

April 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 5 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.
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.
Senior Software Engineer

Maven Networks (acquired by Yahoo!)

(Privately Held; 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.
Software Consultant

New Tilt

(Internet industry)

August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)
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.
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.