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Alex Payne

Writer, early-stage investor, donor, and erstwhile technologist.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
Emerging Technologies
Ruby
Scala
Ruby on Rails
Distributed Systems
REST
Web Applications
Open Source
APIs
JavaScript
Git
TDD
Python
Web Development
MySQL
Scalability
Test Driven Development
Security
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Work Experience

2018

  • Writer

    2018

[various]

2012 - 2016

  • Consultant

    2012 - 2016

    Technical consulting to early-stage startups, non-profits, and political campaigns. Systems architecture and automation, API design, full stack software development.

Simple Finance Technology Corp.

2010 - 2012

  • CTO

    2010 - 2012

    Shipped a thoughtfully designed, reliable online banking service for web and mobile that helps people understand their spending. Hired a top-notch team of engineers, designers, operations folks, security experts, customer support specialists, and more.

2007 - 2010

  • Platform Lead

    2007 - 2010

    Started out doing a bit of everything as Twitter grew from a side-project into a worldwide phenomenon. I then spent about two years building out our API and nurtured the community of talented third-party developers around it. I finished up my time there working on the service's backend infrastructure. Along the way I interviewed seemingly hundreds of people, met with partners, supported technical due diligence investigations, advocated for new technologies and development methodologies, and much more.

Wakapa, Inc.

2006 - 2007

  • Web Application Developer

    2006 - 2007

    Was the sole developer for a prototype website for a storytelling social network startup aimed at an older target demographic of users.

Management Technology International

2004 - 2006

  • Intrusion Engineer

    2004 - 2006

2004 - 2004

  • Web Application Developer

    2004 - 2004