More great news on the engineering and product side!

Jacob Chapel has joined our team as a full time Software Engineer / API Lead!  He was previously doing consulting work for Geeklist and we couldn’t wait to bring him on board!

Jacob’s most recent work has been the creation, support and complete development of the Geeklist API.  He did a phenomenal job by taking a concept and building the entire platform with no prior experience.  He is currently working on introducing APIs to the public, we already have a few great companies using it with great success.  Perhaps the most significant project Jacob has undertaken is finishing our events engine or personalized timelines (soon to be launched!)

Aside from building world-class applications, Jacob is a Node.js early adopter and he is constantly looking over our code and making it better across the board.  He is also extremely proficient with linux and he is constantly making contributions to our production deployment process and flow.  We could not be happier to have such a talented and dedicated engineer join our team!

Please join us in welcoming Jacob to the Geeklist team!

Please join us in welcoming our newest full-time member of the team, Jon Keating.

Jon has been with us since very early on.  A few months after we launched (Last year), he reached out to help with Geeklist on a part-time basis.  His first project was the card headline / rename project, which he quickly completed in a few days; he later took on the “non-member” invite process which he also completed successfully.

For the past few days Jon has been working on getting to know our entire stack as part of him taking a bigger role in the company.  Jon will join our community as a Senior Software Engineer.  His tasks will include coding, spending some time looking after our production environment and limited product management.  

We can’t tell you how excited we are to have Jon join the engineering / product team.  He has an amazing background, loves to build things and gets along with everyone in the team.  One of the characteristics that makes Jon such a great asset to Geeklist is that he never backs down from a challenge, he is always looking for a solution no matter how complex.  Jon also has a great eye for product, always adding value to new initiatives with great feedback including non engineering type projects like SEO.   

His latest work was the full implementation of our new instagram feature when we were at SXSW.  From backend to the front end, he did it all in just a few hours (spread out in three days while still working full-time for another company).  What made this project unique is the fact that Jon had to deal with an API (Instagram) that wasn’t working as expected.  He was able to debug and quickly fix the issue.  The sign of a great coder!

We are so pleased to add Jon to our community, he will be a great asset to our already amazing team.  Next on Jon’s plate is helping us launch Convos and then “My Community”.  

Please join us in welcoming Jon to the team!

You can see some of his work here: http://geekli.st/emostar