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Day job:

I'm the "Chief Monocle Officer" at Bourgeois Bits LLC, a company I founded in early March 2011 with two of my Seattle startup friends.

We make Cloak, a new service for the Mac (and, soon, iPhone + iPad) that keeps you safe from prying eyes on public wireless networks.

Favorite Python project:

I love App Engine. It's crazy, it's rough around the edges, it's got all sorts of non-standard nooks and crannies you have to learn, and it's pretty neat. Guido works on it, so what's not to love?

I've been an App Engine user since before their beta. I've used it for all sorts of stuff, including:

  • The Cloak website is a big Django+GAE app. (We develop Cloak on GitHub, though it is a private repo. Thank goodness for Issues 2.0!)

  • The Walk Score APIs -- both Walking and Transit -- run on App Engine (though some compute-intensive stuff is on AWS/EC2.)

  • The City Go Round web site is GAE+Django, and it's also open source -- here on GitHub, naturally.

  • The back-end and web site for my OSS iPhone app, WhereBeUs, is also GAE+Django. And, again, the source is here on GitHub.

Two friends and I even gave a talk at Google I|O 2009 -- back when App Engine was pre-beta -- on scaling Walk Score with App Engine.

Favorite Conference:

I've had a ton of fun at the pre-TechCrunch Disrupt hackathons. I will refrain from describing my at-TechCrunch Disrupt experience. ;-)

Python Experience Level:

Crazy like a fox; crazier after a beer or two.

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