About me

Last updated Oct. 31, 2022

• From St. Louis, now bay area
• Learned to program on TI-83+ calculators
• Mechanical Engineering ('11) @University of Missouri
• Co-founder @Zapier, making automation work for everyone
• Working on AI stuff

Recent

• A “Chief Hole Filler” mindset
• Scaling remote product teams (YC Podcast interview)
• Finding product market fit at Zapier (Interview)
• Designing a remote culture (Interview)
• Career advice from plinko

Archive

Zapier

• Scaling Zapier's product org beyond one team
• How Zapier got its name
• Why the Zapier color is orange (#ff4a00)

Reverse engineering

• “SafeGuard” as a workaround for TI “TestGuard”
• Won a community bounty by reverse engineering some HTC dialer software
• Pioneer DVR harddrive recovery tools

Old side projects

• Facebook side business
• UX analysis of credit card forms
• An LXML parser exploit
• Startup PR Generator a parody startup weekend project
• GraphMon for Facebook platform monitoring
• AIMwhois my first web app
• KnoopVsZombies — an open source Humans vs Zombies game engine which powers Mizzou HvZ, Truman HvZ and BSU HvZ

Other

• How to give a talk
• Hack my personality
• How to make 8BitDo controllers work with iOS