Leah Culver

Current

• Product Manager at Six Apart, Ltd.

Past

• Software Engineer at Six Apart
• Founder and Lead Developer at Pownce
• Host at CNET Networks

• Web Interface Engineer at Instructables, Inc.
• Software Engineer at iLoop Mobile, Inc

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Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• Hurl

Leah Culver’s Summary

I am an experienced web developer with an interest in user experience and open source. I was a founder of Pownce and created the website in under four months. Pownce was acquired by Six Apart in November 2008 and now I'm a Product Manager for TypePad.

I'm an author of OAuth and maintain the Python library. I'm also an author of OEmbed which is supported by websites such as Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Six Apart, and Wordpress.

My hobby is maintaining a few web services including Baconfile (baconfile.com), a web interface for Amazon S3, and Hurl (hurl.it), an HTTP client for testing web APIs.

Leah Culver’s Specialties:

web application programming, product design, user experience, database design, API development

Leah Culver’s Experience

• Product Manager

  Six Apart, Ltd.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Software Engineer

  Six Apart

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2008 — October 2009 (1 year )

  Motion is a new open source community microblogging solution created by Six Apart. As part of the Motion team, I helped develop the Django and Python libraries for interacting with the TypePad API.

• Founder and Lead Developer

  Pownce

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  Pownce was a social networking web service that allowed users to send messages, files, links, and events to their friends. I was the lead website developer and co-founder, along with Daniel Burka and Kevin Rose.
  
  Pownce was acquired by Six Apart in November of 2007 and subsequently shut down in December. Parts of the Pownce code base were reused for Motion.

• Host

  CNET Networks

  (Public Company; Media Production industry)

  January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)

  Hosted a web show / podcast called "Wink!" for Webshots (webshots.com).

• Web Interface Engineer

  Instructables, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)

• Software Engineer

  iLoop Mobile, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

Leah Culver’s Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  B.S. , Computer Science , 2004 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Plumb Bob, ACM, SWE

Additional Information

Leah Culver’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Hurl

Leah Culver’s Interests:

Crossword puzzles, indie pop/rock music

Leah Culver’s Groups:

SF Django, Commonwealth Club

•    Girls in Tech - Global

Leah Culver’s Honors:

2009 Rails Rumble, "Most Complete" Award - Hurl, a browser-based HTTP client

2009 Django Dash, 2nd place - Leafy Chat, an contemporary web IRC client

2008 Yahoo Hack Day, 2nd place Yahoo! Fire Eagle - Weather Sets iPhone web application

2006 Yahoo Hack Day, 2nd place Yahoo! Mail - Flickr Photo Postcard

2006 Instructables Outstanding Project of the Month (April/May) - Teddy Bear Remote Control

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