A better way to run wire. Born from the seemingly simple task of mounting a television over a fireplace.
Learn more at trywireshark.com
Working at Google.
FIers (fi-ers) helps people reach FI/RE (financial independence / retire early). The site provides a forecasting tool and budgeting app.
The forecasting tool applies a model to your personal finances and creates an investment strategy to reach financial independence. Users can also simulate historic US market conditions to see how the strategy would perform under real-world conditions.
The budgeting tool syncs transactions from your bank account and lets you categorize your spending using the envelope method.
View features of the forecasting tool and budgeting app.
Created by Kevin and Jaisen
Joule is a serverless platform that automates the deployment of Lambda functions and API Gateway configurations.
Every Joule is forkable and exists as a GitHub repository. They are immediately deployed and updated each time new code is pushed to GitHub.
Joules are developed and tested locally using our NPM modules.
Elodie is a photo, video and audio workflow automation tool. It synchronizes the file system with the EXIF information stored in media files. The EXIF allows for all of the organization to happen without a central database.
Learn more at https://getelodie.com.
Western Digital acquired Trovebox in 2014 to integrate our software into their MyCloud line of products.
The Trovebox software was ported to work with the MyCloud NAS devices. The backend was written with different storage systems in mind and was easily integrated into the MyCloud ecosystem without changing the core functionality.
acquired by Western DigitalCreated by Patrick and Jaisen
Trovebox started as a Kickstarter campaign that was successfully funded in 2011.
Trovebox provided long-term digital preservation services for media archives. Trovebox's core concept was decoupling data store and application logic. Media files were seamlessly stored and migrated among more than 10 storage options.
Read about the entire startup journey from founding to acquisition.
I received a 3 year fellowship from The Shuttleworth Foundation. The fellowship included a grant of $1 million dollars to build Trovebox.
I was accepted into the first cohort of Mozilla's WebFWD accelerator and incubator program.
Created by Kevin and Jaisen
The Scholar App was one of the first education apps on the Facebook Platform and let college students and professors collaborate on Facebook without having to friend each other. College attendance was verified by requiring a college email address. Colleges and their course catalogs were imported through crowd sourcing.
Students and professors could share notes, upload media, view and edit the syllabus, and have discussions. It was an easy way to interact with your classmates outside the classroom.
Created by Kevin and Jaisen
PubliciTweet was the first direct message marketing tool for Twitter. Users sent direct messages to their followers with unique links that allowed tracking metrics to be obtained.
The links tracked social reach and identified which followers amplified the message the most. We built our own URL shortener for the unique links, and our own graphs to help visualize how a marketing message spread across Twitter.
Created by Kevin and Jaisen
Textbook Revolt was the first peer-to-peer textbook exchange platform. It changed focus to let students rent textbooks to one another.
The site backfilled unavailable rentals using the BookRenter API. The Stamps.com API was used to make it easy for students to create and print pre-addressed shipping labels to send and return books.
Created by Jon and Jaisen
Jon and I started Photagious in 2004; long before smart phones existed and when Flickr was just starting out.
Photagious did many things ahead of its time including video support, drag and drop UI, and using MySql as a no-sql database. The site was the first photo service to integrate with Blogger.
I write code for the sake of releasing good software; almost always with a team. I view software as a craft; balancing high quality with pragmatism. It's rare that I begin working on something that doesn't get released; always within 3 months for an MVP.
My collective skills and experience cover everything from ideation to delivery. I start with rough ideas and iterate to something worth working on.
I'm a fan of OS X, Linux, the command line, homebrew, Vagrant, and git. I learn new technologies when they help me do better work.
I'm a fan of writing tests but recognize test driven development can be overkill if misused.
I use tried and true tools whenever possible, but am experienced enough to know when a newer technology is appropriate.
I use the AWS ecosystem but am not a stranger to Google Cloud, Linode or Digital Ocean. I like using GitHub, TravisCi, Scrutinizer, and Coveralls.
Want to get in touch? Email jaisen@jmathai.com.