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Geek of the Week: Hiya’s Mayur Kamat is on the line, aiming to make phone calls more secure

Mayur Kamat has always gravitated toward building “the next big thing.” While he has held several official job titles during the… Read More

Geek of the Week: Xerox print tech manager Steve Case honored to be called ‘troubleshooter’

No, he’s not that Steve Case. But just like the AOL co-founder, this week’s Geek of the Week is a… Read More

Geek of the Week: Dev9 technology director Nimret Sandhu is busy, inspired and very organized

As the director of technology at Dev9, a Kirkland, Wash.-based software development consulting firm, Nimret Sandhu has his hands full… Read More

Geek of the Week: Avvo’s HR chief Kelly McGill has the talent to manage the talent

Kelly McGill is a people person. As the head of talent management and human resources at Avvo, the Seattle-based online legal… Read More

Geek of the Week: Joseph Williams is a top tech adviser to Gov. Jay Inslee

While the technology industry in Seattle and Washington state is in the midst of another boom, it’s Joseph Williams’ job to… Read More

Geek of the Week: Porch’s Matthew Neagle finds a home in Seattle, helping others improve theirs

Matthew Neagle was drawn to startups by the qualities he learned early in his career working for the non-profit leadership organization… Read More

Geek of the Week: Spare5’s Matt Bencke says early paper route put him on path to success

Matt Bencke calls himself a paperboy. He started delivering newspapers, in their paper form, when he was 8 years old… Read More

Geek of the Week: Timothy Crosley is a champion of open source technology

When Timothy Crosley isn’t working on security solutions for DomainTools, he devotes his time to open source projects. He runs… Read More

Geek of the Week: Ada Academy grad Liz Rush is passionate about developer evangelism

In January of last year, Liz Rush began studying software development in the first class of Ada Developers Academy, a… Read More

Geek of the Week: From Juiceman to Breadman to SousVide Supreme, Creative Cuisine’s Bob Lamson is a kitchen appliance guru

An expert in both kitchen appliances and business development, Robert (Bob) Lamson has worked for decades to improve the cooking… Read More

Geek of the Week: Former Microsoft technical writer William Vaughn makes his mark as a novelist

William Vaughn enjoyed a long career at Microsoft, as an expert in products such as Visual Basic and SQL Server, publishing twelve… Read More

Geek of the Week: Gwen Houston is Microsoft’s champion for diversity and inclusion

Diversity is on the minds of tech leaders more than ever, as companies across the industry push to make their workforces more… Read More

Geek of the Week: Linda Weston has been helping Oregon startups succeed for 17 years

For the past 17 years, Linda Weston has devoted her life to helping entrepreneurs. She serves as the Executive Director… Read More

Geek of the Week: Marketing exec David Hyslop on Seattle, ‘Shark Tank’, and the pros and cons of a moving workplace

If you’ve ever tried your luck at prospecting, chances are it involved a lot of sifting through rocks with a… Read More

16 tips and tricks for managing everyday work and life, from our Geeks of the Week

What’s your best tip or trick for managing everyday work and life? It’s one of our favorite questions to ask… Read More

Geek of the Week: Avvo’s Justin Weiss says making software is ‘like getting to solve puzzles for a living’

Avvo software development director Justin Weiss still remembers the days when the legal advice company — where he’s worked for the… Read More

The most important technologies of 2015: Our top geeks make their picks

2015 was the year of the wearables, drones, 3D printing, virtual reality and more — but amid all this innovation,… Read More

Geek of the Week: Lighter Capital CEO BJ Lackland isn’t a VC hater — he just thinks there’s a better way

Lighter Capital CEO BJ Lackland is on a mission to change the way startups raise the funding they need to… Read More

Geek of the Week: Former Buuteeq CEO Forest Key is betting big on virtual reality with Pixvana

It seemed a little unusual this week when the former CEO of hotel marketing startup Buuteeq announced plans to launch… Read More

Geek of the Week: serial entrepreneur Brian Fioca has studied the art of the startup for 10 years

Brian Fioca has been bouncing around from one startup to another since he founded his first company, a job posting… Read More

Geek of the Week: Napster co-founder, startup CEO Jordan Ritter is working on a recipe for innovation

Jordan Ritter got his first taste of entrepreneurship in 1999, when he was sharing a Silicon Valley apartment with startup superstars Shawn Fanning… Read More

Geek of the Week: Socedo’s Akash Badshah straddles the line between engineer and entrepreneur

Akash Badshah calls himself the “classic millennial engineer,” but really he finds himself sitting squarely at the intersection between an… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘Soma’ Somasegar is ready for something new after 27 years at Microsoft

S. “Soma” Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989, back when the Redmond software company had less than 5,000 employees and was… Read More

Geek of the Week: Patent attorney Priya Cloutier couldn’t help but catch the entrepreneurial bug

Patent attorney Priya Cloutier wasn’t all that surprised when she caught the entrepreneurship bug earlier this year. After all, she has… Read More

Geek of the Week: Accel Partners’ Joe Beda is building a startup — he just doesn’t know which kind

Software engineer Joe Beda only planned to take a few months off when he took leave from Google back in May. But that was… Read More

Geek of the Week: Austin Dale Wheat believes in the power of a good old-fashioned text message

The technology world may be in love with the hot new messaging services from companies Snapchat, WhatsApp and Facebook. But OpenMarket’s… Read More

Geek of the Week: Rahul Singh is a ‘dev at heart,’ aiming to transform the world of DevOps

It’s quite a compliment when one of the most prominent venture capital firms around calls you, “one of those 10x founders.” It’s… Read More

Geek of the Week: Yarelly Gomez refuses to be another statistic about minorities in tech

The odds have always been stacked again University of Washington engineering student Yarelly Gomez. Her parents are both farm workers in… Read More

Geek of the Week: Orbbec co-founder and ‘NUI Nerd’ Joshua Blake wants to reinvent human-computer interactions

Orbbec co-founder Joshua Blake seems pretty certain there’s about to be sea change in the way humans communicate with computers. The Edmonds,… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW innovation ambassador Vikram Jandhyala is cultivating the next crop of entrepreneurs

University of Washington administrator Vikram Jandhyala has been one of the driving forces behind the Global Innovation Exchange, a new Bellevue, Wash.-based technology… Read More