Innovation Ape and Independent Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Independent Consultant at Wachob.com (Sole Proprietorship)
- Contractor at Socialtext
- Past
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- CTO at Equals
- CTO at Amsoft
- Chief Systems Architect at Visa International
- Co-Founder, Principal Consultant at WiredObjects
- Consulting Software Architect at Chemdex/Ventro
- Member Technical Staff at ISharp
- Sr. Software Engineer at Airflash
- Director of Technology at Findlaw
- Consulting System/Network Administrator at Bigbook
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
- UC San Diego
- Carnegie Mellon
- Lick Wilmerding High School
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Gabe Wachob’s Summary
A combination of deep technical experience (CS undergrad) and a law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.
Technical experience dealing with a wide variety of Internet technologies, including enterprise, peer-to-peer and distributed architectures.
Experience as a very early employee of several Internet startups, particpating in all roles from strategic product planning to hands-on development and network administration.
Experience in leading and participating in open standards development in the Internet space.
Experience in open source as well as commercial software development.
Gabe Wachob’s Specialties:
Bootstrapping Startups, Technology Advocacy and Evangelism, Intellectual Property Issues, Digital Identity, Web Services, Wireless and Mobile, Open Standards Development, Software Architecture (distributed, enterprise, p2p), Open Source Software Development
Gabe Wachob’s Experience
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Independent Consultant
Wachob.com (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
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Contractor
Socialtext
(Internet industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
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CTO
Equals
(Internet industry)
2006 — January 2008 (2 years)
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CTO
Amsoft
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
July 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 7 months)
CTO for Indian-based company focusing on the emerging area of digital identity. I am based in Redwood Shores, CA.
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Chief Systems Architect
Visa International
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)
May 2001 — July 2006 (5 years 3 months)
Leading XRI specification effort in Oasis-Open, working with Product Technology Standards and Strategies group to investigate and advocate internally a variety of Internet technologies that Visa may find value in leveraging.
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Co-Founder, Principal Consultant
WiredObjects
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2001 — February 2004 (3 years)
Internet development and architecture consulting firm. Responsible for corporate management, business development, as well as performing consulting to company clients.
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Consulting Software Architect
Chemdex/Ventro
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
February 2001 — April 2001 (3 months)
Consulting architect on short term project with this B2B exchange operator to develop XML schema for interoperability with outside project management system.
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Member Technical Staff
ISharp
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — February 2001 (9 months)
Team leader in (now failed) startup doing outsourced web performance management. Participated in technical architecture planning and contributed to technical advisory board.
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Sr. Software Engineer
Airflash
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
April 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Early employee of "location based services" startup. Developed architecture and product with small technical team. Acted as network architect and administrator until company grew to hire people in those roles.
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Director of Technology
Findlaw
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Hired as first employee, planned, developed and implemented new offerings for this leading legal portal. Also performed network architecture and management roles.
Lead (in conjunction with one outside party) the formation of the LegalXML standardization effort, now a part of Oasis-Open. -
Consulting System/Network Administrator
Bigbook
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 1997 — March 1998 (5 months)
Gabe Wachob’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
JD, Law, 1994 — 1997
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UC San Diego
BA, Computer Science, August 1991 — June 1994
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Carnegie Mellon
Computer Engineering August 1990 — May 1991
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Lick Wilmerding High School
1986 — 1990
Additional Information
Gabe Wachob’s Websites:
Gabe Wachob’s Groups:
San Mateo County Democratic Party Tech Summit, OpenID, #joiito, San Mateo County DFA, Somewhere on IRC, UCSD TEN
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OASIS
Gabe Wachob’s Contact Settings
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