Matt Dressman

Matt is a Software Engineer at Kavi Corporation. Having recently transitioned from Lead QA Engineer role, he has a unique insight into the software development process as well as the business implications of product quality.

Kronda Adair

Developer at Metal Toad Media. Senior at the Art Institute of Portland.

Ethan Brown

Edwin Knuth

Web developer, devopsy/sysadmin/dba. GIS and web mapping enthusiast.

Mike Coleman

Freelance software developer.

Piet van Zoen

Portland based englishman and web developer at @daylightstudio.

Jeff Schwaber

I thought this was funny when I wrote it, but now I think I was just being contrary: I was born, learned how to walk and talk and, some days, feed myself, and almost lost it all to the mysterious hole of programming. I received a degree that should really have been labeled BS, at least for its initials, and then moved to Portland to pursue I wasn't sure what. Since then I've been (among other things) a system administrator, database munger, and programmer, as well as a mushroom hunter, everything pickler and teacher.

Emma McCreary

UX geek, personal growth junkie, meat lover.

Ramiro Jr. Franco

Front end web developer, rails /sass / jquery lover.

Brennan Novak

Future Positive, Designer, Developer, Goofball, Believer of Magic. Builder of @eco_heroes and @socialigniter

Minu Oh

<h3 style="margin:0;">I AM:</h3><p style="margin:0;">A web creator with 9 years experience leading in UI, Visual Design and Frontend Dev capacities for 80+ projects (from scratch to final product) in retail, software, education, non-profit and ecommerce, from small to Fortune 500 companies.</p><h3 style="margin:0;">COMPANIES I LOVE:</h3><ul style="margin:0;"><li>Value 100 year old brand recognition over big exits.<li>Value evolution and innovation over expansion of institution.<li>Understands design is a strategy, involving creation of effective and meaningful experience, as well as emotion-driven aesthetics.</ul><h3 style="margin:0;">MY STRENGTHS:</h3><ul style="margin:0;"><li>Intuitive understanding of team dynamics and able to seamlessly adapt between agency, startup and enterprise environment.<li>Product minded. Fast. Iteration over perfection. "Ship it" mindset. I'm still a stickler for details (thank you, OCD).<li>Fast learner, growth-minded and excel in exploring new personal frontiers.<li>Proven record of vision, communication and execution.<br/>Partial Client list: Magento, Yves Rochers, Xerox, Hollywood Reporter, Zend, Foodzie, Pepe Aguilar, Conns, Portero, MetalDetector.com, Pebble Beach Concours, Popcornopolis</ul><h3 style="margin:0;">MY WEAKNESSES:</h3><p style="margin:0;">Spreading myself too thin (Solution: Create a set of short term goals based on long term vision. Take intelligent risks. Say "No".)</p><h3 style="margin:0;">BRAGGING RIGHTS:</h3><p style="margin:0;">I was the #1 lead designer + frontend developer of Magento's original core dev team and was responsible for much of the designs and HTML/CSS structure you see in Magento today.</p><h3 style="margin:0;">I BELIEVE:</h3><ul style="margin:0;"><li>Where I am and what I know now, is the perfect place to begin.<li>It's not just about working hard, but doing it for the right things, in an effective way, that brings meaningful results.<li>Knowing when to pivot or persevere, is an art on its own!<li>Personal fulfillment comes from building and maintaining meaningful relationship.</ul><h3 style="margin:0;">INTERESTS:</h3><p>I find it fulfilling to practice, or at least be aware of the common discourse across disciplines. I love going to museums, engaging in the Portland tech community, working out, philosophising, learning about business, economy and history, and general aviation.</p>

Gabriela "Gaba" Rodriguez

Senior geek, junior mom with experience in web development and desktop applications. Passion for open source/free software. Crafty want to be with with curiosity for all science, all learning experiences.

Bill

Improving our work and play lives with software - and my family - are my passions.

Kenyon Gwillim

I am a developer with 16 years of experience, 13 of those specifically building and deploying websites and web applications. My experience was initially in the auto finance world. I started writing and maintaining windows and DOS applications in C, C++, and Pascal. During that time the company phased out their windows client based software into web based applications. That thrust me into the world of web development and Adobe Coldfusion (then Allaire). I primarily did Coldfusion development for many years and then another technology shift had me change directions and move into .NET development. Occasional forays into the open source world (PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache) based on client requests. I also had a brief stint as the server administrator in addition to my development duties as small shops often require. I have familiarity with the complete life cycle of website development. From an idea to architecting, coding, QA, deployment and ongoing maintenance. I have worked alongside everyone involved with getting a website off the ground. Creative, Flash/Flex developers, my developer peers, project managers, account executives, directors of technology, as well as the clients themselves. Exposure to tight deadlines, long hours, quick turnarounds (eg fast paced environment) is something I am quite familiar with and willing to do when it is necessary to do a project right, make the deadline, or calm an upset client.

Joe Cochran

Aaron Amstutz

Web developer, currently employed at Metal Toad Media. Passionate about learning new things, hearing all the ideas. Almost human, part of the time.

Jeff Schwaber

I thought this was funny when I wrote it, but now I think I was just being contrary: I was born, learned how to walk and talk and, some days, feed myself, and almost lost it all to the mysterious hole of programming. I received a degree that should really have been labeled BS, at least for its initials, and then moved to Portland to pursue I wasn't sure what. Since then I've been (among other things) a system administrator, database munger, and programmer, as well as a mushroom hunter, everything pickler and teacher.

Stephane Paul

Richard Shank

Long time php developer, I've been working with startups for the last couple of years. I'm a project leader on Vespolina, an open source ecommerce system for Symfony2

Rakshith Krishnappa

Developer... works @Intel, Illinois Tech Alumni, side-projects @ initlabs.com, Creator of gramfeed.com, shaloc.com, CheckinMania.com, MisoTrendy.com ...

Ezra Spier

Dan Novak

e-Learning developer, recently moved here from Mystic, CT. I work with a lot of technologies, and hungry to learn more. Specializing mostly in SCORM and AICC, have a lot of experience forcing courses to play nice with Learning Management Systems (LMSes) like Plateau, SumTotal, and Oracle iLearning. Getting my feet wet in C# and ASP.NET in my new role, along with more advanced OOP in ActionScript. Got a hosting account supporting JSP, but haven't figured out what I want to do with it yet. Was playing wth Drupal and other PHP things, but my heart's not really in it.

Adam Edgerton

Project Manager at Metal Toad Media. Passionate about technology, the Internets, mobile, and digital marketing. An avid bike racer, photographer, outdoors-lover, pretend coder, and PDX explorer.

Milo Winningham

Chris Ackerman

I work for Bonzi Sports Software out in Tualatin, doing mostly web app development and a little C++ tool and php plugin hacking here and there. Also some Oracle voodoo occasionally. On my own time I'm playing with Node and Minecraft.

scott brisko

A developer who once upon a time was a designer, but realized he loved hacking more than he loved photoshop. I have a deep desire to make tools that people enjoy using to solve their everyday problems.

Marty Matheny

Manager of Software Engineering with experience developing on the .NET stack building collaborative health-care software.

Justin Wheeler

Ruby Developer relocating to Portland in February.

Jacob Reiff

Design, development, curation: @Wantist. Design, customer service: @keyboardtray.

Brent Miller