
TBD at Automattic
San Francisco Bay Area

TBD at Automattic
San Francisco Bay Area
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
Here is my job description (in the words of Donald Rumsfeld):
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — Present (4 years )
As the only person who took money out of pocket for this venture, I guess that makes me the venture capitalist of Lunch 2.0 (I sprung $5 for the domain name.)
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
May 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)
When Zend puts your photo on a deck of cards you’ve either arrived in the PHP world or are a terrorist. I’m a PHP Terrorist.
A.K.A. Bat Boy on the “PHP All-Star Lineup”
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 9 months)
I rewrote the codebase. It took a couple years, but traffic grew by 10x so I’m happy.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — January 2007 (3 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 8 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 9 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — May 2001 (10 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years )
M.S. , Physics , August 1995 — April 2000
B.S. , Physics , September 1989 — June 1994