They work for companies as big as Amazon or as small as the startup they created by themselves this year. Some are still students, some are longtime technology veterans. But… Read More
Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? Rafael Reif thinks so. He’s an internationally renowned electrical engineer, researcher, and professor and for the past five years, he’s… Read More
Christine Betts sometimes feels overwhelmed because she “only started programming in college” but a glance at her long list of accomplishments shows the college junior is miles ahead of many… Read More
Byron Rakitzis is the co-founder and architect at Igneous Systems, a Seattle-based data-storage startup. He’s also an accomplished classical musician, and he said that with technology, “when you’re in the flow,… Read More
Five years ago, the Bainbridge Island, Wa., School District didn’t have a robotics team and the high school had one coding class. Now, thanks to inspired teachers, students and mentors,… Read More
When Jacob McMurray first went to work in 1994 on the initial development of Paul Allen’s dream for a music museum in Seattle, he was cataloging Jimi Hendrix records out… Read More
Susan Preston has been an angel investor since 1999. In the time since she has held senior positions at private and public companies; been a partner in three law firms; served… Read More
As a senior data scientist at Groupon and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Tacoma, one might expect that Muhammad… Read More
Some of the most important technology of the past year could very well become the story of next year. And the year after that. Such is life at the leading… Read More
The POP website currently opens with an overlay of text that reads, “Make things happen.” Joel Eby, a creative team leader, has been doing that at the large Seattle agency… Read More
In an email back to our new Geek of the Week, who happens to have a PhD in linguistics and once helped build spell-checkers at Microsoft, I told her I’d be… Read More
While he wouldn’t necessarily think he qualifies as a “geek,” U.S. Navy Lt. Ryan Chamberlain will certainly be performing for plenty of them when he and his team of Blue… Read More
When Esmee Williams first started at Seattle-based Allrecipes 17 years ago, she often needed to explain to people what the World Wide Web was and how you could access this… Read More
Mayur Kamat has always gravitated toward building “the next big thing.” While he has held several official job titles during the course of his career, Kamat, who now heads up product development for… Read More
As the director of technology at Dev9, a Kirkland, Wash.-based software development consulting firm, Nimret Sandhu has his hands full with his daily responsibilities. But that hasn’t stopped him from… Read More
Kelly McGill is a people person. As the head of talent management and human resources at Avvo, the Seattle-based online legal marketplace, McGill believes strongly in helping people do what they do… Read More
While the technology industry in Seattle and Washington state is in the midst of another boom, it’s Joseph Williams’ job to ensure that it continues to grow. He does this as… Read More
Matthew Neagle was drawn to startups by the qualities he learned early in his career working for the non-profit leadership organization AIESEC. He knew he wanted to be surrounded by awesome people… Read More
Matt Bencke calls himself a paperboy. He started delivering newspapers, in their paper form, when he was 8 years old so that he could buy every video game he could… Read More
When Timothy Crosley isn’t working on security solutions for DomainTools, he devotes his time to open source projects. He runs Simple Innovation, a software development business that builds apps on… Read More
In January of last year, Liz Rush began studying software development in the first class of Ada Developers Academy, a tuition-free coding school for women. After successfully graduating from Ada, Rush worked… Read More
William Vaughn enjoyed a long career at Microsoft, as an expert in products such as Visual Basic and SQL Server, publishing twelve books on a variety of technical topics during his 14-year tenure as… Read More
Diversity is on the minds of tech leaders more than ever, as companies across the industry push to make their workforces more inclusive and representative of their customers. But this is not… Read More
If you’ve ever tried your luck at prospecting, chances are it involved a lot of sifting through rocks with a tin pan and a very little gold to take home… Read More
What’s your best tip or trick for managing everyday work and life? It’s one of our favorite questions to ask as part of our regular Geek of the Week feature.… Read More
S. “Soma” Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989, back when the Redmond software company had less than 5,000 employees and was gearing up for the first release of a new productivity suite… Read More
Patent attorney Priya Cloutier wasn’t all that surprised when she caught the entrepreneurship bug earlier this year. After all, she has been representing startups for more than a decade. She left a… Read More
Bryce Blum recently left his comfortable job at a Seattle law firm to launch his own legal practice and a new startup — both focused on the exploding eSports industry.… Read More
Brett Greene, co-founder of popular Meetup group New Tech Seattle, received an exciting invitation in April. He was chosen along with 50 other community organizers for the first-ever White House Tech… Read More
Mike Christensen is a life-long software engineer — a career that began remarkably early. While most of his kindergarten peers were mastering their ABCs and 123s, he was programing his first computer… Read More