David Weekly

Current

Founding Director at Hacker Dojo
Founder & Chairman at PBwiki
Co-Founder at SuperHappy[Fun|Dev]House

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Past

President & Executive Director at Online Policy Group
Audio Engineering Consultant at Telephia
Software Engineer at There, Inc.

Software Architect at Legato Software
Summer Intern at AtWeb, Inc.

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Education

Stanford University
Lexington Christian Academy

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500+ connections

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David Weekly’s Summary

I'm young, but I've been around the block; I've been programming since I was five and have been online since 1990. I started working professionally with an internship at GenRad in 1993 helping build sniffer databases of Ethernet addresses (I ended up building their first website). I then moved on to simulations and visualizations of antimatter recombination at Harvard, pattern recognition evaluation systems at MIT, and mesh alignment optimization algorithms at Stanford. I've since helped dozens of companies put products together and refine their vision, created audio algorithms, wrote half a book on MP3s (after writing the first layman's description on my personal site that was eating 80% of Stanford's outbound bandwidth), taught technology to over 100 kids in Ghana, reported on CES and Comdex for the Korean media, and ran research surveys on GMOs in Sweden. I love working on problems of all sorts, technical or otherwise, and in all kinds of environments. I'm one of those wacky technologists that actually enjoys people. (I have been known to help put together huge parties.) I love working with an excellent group of people to create something out of nothing. I love founding companies and non-profits, and it's a habit I'm not likely to break any time soon. :)

David Weekly’s Specialties:

idea generation, clusters, Linux, Perl, PHP, MySQL, CSS, networking, security, audio coding, strategy, team formation, party planning, communications, protocol debugging, hiring, team management, founding startups.

David Weekly’s Experience

Founding Director

Hacker Dojo

(Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)

Responsible for helping found and direct the Peninsula's first nerd community center, a 501(c)(6) membership-based organization that operates a 24/7 "hackpad" for information technology professionals to create, collaborate, teach, study, and meet one another.
Founder & Chairman

PBwiki

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)

PBworks (formerly PBwiki) is one of the largest Internet collaboration companies in the world, with more business and educational workspaces than anyone - including teams at half the Fortune 500 and clients like RBC, Facebook, Deloitte, and the United Nations. I coded the first version of the product and built up a team of 25+ (including a top-flight engineering team, enterprise sales, support, and marketing organizations, and an accomplished CEO), raised $5m+, and am now responsible for the company's product, engineering, and IT operations.
Co-Founder

SuperHappy[Fun|Dev]House

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years)

Helped discover and assemble the SuperHappyFunHouse; a private mansion / dorm / incubator in Hillsborough. Host of huge parties (400+ ppl!), casual shindigs, the SuperHappyDevHouse all-night hackathons, and all-day pool parties. I currently manage house finances and help coordinate the hackathons.
President & Executive Director

Online Policy Group

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2001 — February 2007 (5 years 8 months)

Founded the California Community Colocation Project, the world's first non-profit focused on providing free colocation services to the not-for-profit online community. Managedover 130 not-for-profit servers in Fremont, CA and helped found "sister" colocation projects in Seattle, Toronto, Chicago, and Washington D.C. Clients include the Special Olympics, community radio stations, churches, anarchists, charities, Open Source projects, and UFO conspiracists. Directed core operations team of eight and volunteer mailing list of around 200. Maintained website, handled new requests for service, fixed and prevented service outages. Planned growth, managed inventory, solicited donations, negociated deals. Addressed conference in Geneva at the Palace of the United Nations on the subject of community colocation. Became President of parent organization Online Policy Group in October of 2005, Executive Director in December 2005.
Audio Engineering Consultant

Telephia

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2004 — April 2004 (4 months)

On a part-time contract created, developed, optimized, and heavily tested a novel, patentable, and effective audio analysis algorithm (code-named "Fifteen Fists") for classification of prerecorded automated phone responses, compensating for noise, clipping, clicks, and signal interruption.
Software Engineer

There, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Principal architect and implementor of world's first streaming Shoutcast music experience in a 3D virtual world. Redesigned forums and made them 47 times faster. Created cluster management and software distribution tools. Created tools for monitoring web applications performance. Drove internationalization efforts internally. Pioneered wiki usage internally, now used for documentation across the company. Extensive core infrastructure design and coding to improve cluster efficiency, administration, responsiveness, and monitoring.
Software Architect

Legato Software

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Assisted innovation in the enterprise backup field. Added support for EMC FasTrax to NetWorker. Ported product to OS/X singlehandedly as an independent side project, currently worth millions in added contracts for Legato. Independently conceived, designed, wrote, and edited four company-wide technology newsletters designed to keep Legato aware of market developments and technological advances relevant to our field. Started a weekly brainstorming session on technological hurdles the company must face and on how to face them. Created automated documentation engine, assisted innumerable people in code development, contributed ideas and inspiration to many groups. Flew to several other development sites to help coordinate and unify development efforts. Youngest member to ever sit on the Engineering Council or join the architecture group.
Summer Intern

AtWeb, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 1998 — September 1998 (4 months)

With one other person, created the world's most graphically and technically advanced hit counter, the first to ever use realtime transparency in its graphic rendering, and the first third-party solution to deliver statistics on referring pages through a Javascript hack of our own invention. This product, Hitometer, is still in use today by millions of websites. Researched the automated creation of animated banner ads.

David Weekly’s Education

Stanford University

BS , Computer Science , 1996 — 2000

Stanford University President Scholar; World Finalist ACM International Programming Competition, 1999; 2nd place ACM Pacific Regional Programming Competition, 1998; 3rd place ACM Pacific Regional Programming Competition, 1997; Town of Arlington Scholarship, 1997

Activities and Societies:

Argentine Tango, Improv Acapella, ASSU Elections Coder, Entrepreneurship Lecturer
Lexington Christian Academy

Diploma , August 1993 — June 1996

Salutorian, Class Treasurer, Van Der Brug Math & Science Scholarship, 1995 AHSME school winner, 1996 AHSME school winner.

Activities and Societies:

Varsity Soccer, Tennis, Wrestling, Debate Club (founder), Programming