People
Meet 1318 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Oakland's tech scene.
Kevin Ebaugh
Person at IFTTT, profile-holder at AngelList.
Moly Yim
Freelance Designer (Graphic & Web) @ moly.me
Diana Zhou
Strategy Consultant at IBM. Marketing & Entrepreneurship major at Wharton. Recently returned from a sabbatical traveling across Asia.
Guillaume Ardaud
Co-founder, NeonMob. Fiddling with bits and atoms, and everything in between. MSc Comp. Sci. (HCI) & Ed. Tech. — BSc. Comp. Sci. (AI)
Matt Zuvella
Founder at SportsVault. Born to innovate. Growth hacker, social media fiend + fantasy sports addict.
Tim O'Neil
Founder/CEO Tether Studios • Worked at @zynga, @activision. 12yrs building & shipping console games; 5yrs operating social products; Engineer, PM.
Patti Silverman
Communications Director at SF MusicTech Summit. Formerly at Columbia Records. Expertise in Marketing, Social Media, Strategy and Relationship Building.
Shauntel Poulson
Worked at @newschools-venture-fund
Karan Jain
Co-Founder @tinygive • Founder @clovest • Worked at @board-of-governors-federal-reserve • Studied at @tufts-university • Fellow @startingbloc
Michael Gwynn
Senior Technical Business Development Leader & Producer in San Francisco Bay Area for Internet Services. I generate revenue & develop new client relationships.
Nicci Ciranna
Operations, HR, Internal Communication, Program Management and Scaling Teams Guru; worked at Google and Facebook, currently at GitHub.
Andrew Naber
Marketing at @dropcam; Founder at FoodSprout, AvidSquare. @university-of-notre-dame 2002.
Benjamin Bayat
Venture capital, entrepreneurial, and angel experience. Strong technology, operations, and sales (IBM). UC Berkeley MBA, Case Western Reserve Univ Physics.
Boris Korsunsky
CTO at @lyft. Past: 1st hire Software Engineer at @socializr (sold to Punchbowl) and Sparked (lead dev), iPhone app dev @ Ooga Labs, Degrees in CS & Psych.
James Yothers
JavaScript software engineer. Deployed mobile application to Google Play store.
Kyle Wiebalk
Digital marketing + content strategist. Helping Fortune 500 + high growth creative brands tell their stories. Love traveling + photography.
Marc Ettlinger
B.S. Eng., Rutgers University • Ph.D. Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley • Postdoc Neuroscience, Northwestern U • Research Scientist, Dept of VA
Mitch McAlister
Passionate team leader with cutting edge product design skills. Excellent presentation, people, organizational and planning skills. Excels in agile business
Lance Pickens
CEO and Founder MadeSolid, Inc. • Worked at @institute-for-creative-technologies • Studied at @university-of-southern-california, @illinois-institute-of-technology
Paul Cowgill
Full-stack engineer. Previously, cofounder and CTO of RaftOut (music tech). @harvard-university M.S. in Systems Biology. NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ryan Dawkins
Founder & President @project-sport-llc | Running/Cycling Production + Entertainment. Worked @montgomery-securities. 2 successful exits 2012/2014.
Ami Eaton
Worked at @microsoft • Studied at University of Washington
Ben Thompson
Founder, CTO @pickle-1. Time @maxis on SimCity 3000, and @electronic-arts on The Sims: Hot Date & Unleashed, The Sims 2, and MySims.
Chadwick Horn
Graduated with a double major in Computer Science and Biology from @stanford-university. Avid sweat equity investor in promising startups.