Leah Culver

Leah Culver

Pownce founder, web developer, and product designer

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
  • Web Interface Engineer at Instructables, Inc.
  • Software Engineer at iLoop Mobile, Inc
Education
  • University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Connections
194 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

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 2009Present (2 months)

  • Software Engineer

    Six Apart

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    November 2008October 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 2007December 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 2007April 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 2006December 2006 (5 months)

  • Software Engineer

    iLoop Mobile, Inc

    (Computer Software industry)

    June 2006August 2006 (3 months)


Leah Culver’s Education

  • University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

    B.S. , Computer Science , 20042006

    Activities and Societies:
    Plumb Bob, ACM, SWE

Additional Information

Leah Culver’s Websites:

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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