Geek of the Week – Page 9 of 12

Geek of the Week: eSports lawyer Bryce Blum is getting in on the ground floor of a booming industry

Bryce Blum recently left his comfortable job at a Seattle law firm to launch his own legal practice and a… Read More

Geek of the Week: New Tech Seattle’s Brett Greene on building connections in the community

Brett Greene, co-founder of popular Meetup group New Tech Seattle, received an exciting invitation in April. He was chosen along… Read More

Geek of the Week: Software engineer Mike Christensen wants to optimize the world

Mike Christensen is a life-long software engineer — a career that began remarkably early. While most of his kindergarten peers were mastering… Read More

Geek of the Week: Seattle entrepreneur Mina Yoo invents products that provide an ‘extra hand’

Like many entrepreneurs and inventors, Mina Yoo was inspired to launch her current venture, Lulabop, to solve a problem that she experienced… Read More

How to manage everyday work and life: Tips, tricks and hacks from our Geeks of the Week

This week, as summer starts to fade away and we settle back in from the long holiday weekend, it’s a great time… Read More

Geek of the Week: PATH’s Kimberly Amundson is using technology to transform human milk banks

Kimberly Amundson’s passion for international service began at a young age. The Bellevue, Wash., native participated in a yearly home-building project… Read More

Geek of the Week: Sharon Magliano Feliciano helps other geeks navigate parenthood

Sharon Magliano Feliciano has been a geek since she could put on a costume. She spent her second Halloween as Spider… Read More

Geek of the Week: Avanade COO Darren Hardman brings order to the complex world of tech

In his four-year tenure at Avanade, the Seattle-based tech consulting and services company, Darren Hardman has risen from Senior VP of… Read More

Geek of the Week: Array Health UX designer Ben Gifford makes insurance suck less

Ben Gifford is a Seattle native and user experience designer at Array Health, a Seattle-based company that makes modern e-commerce technology for… Read More

Geek of the Week: Vulcan Productions GM Carole Tomko drives social change through storytelling

Most movie and television executives are hunting for the next blockbuster. Carole Tomko is aiming for something bigger. As general manager and creative director… Read More

Geek of the Week: Engineering student Rahul Bhardwaj is already giving back

With more than 5,000 hours of engineering experience under his belt, college student Rahul Bhardwaj is already giving back to a… Read More

Geek of the Week: Microsoft Bing program manager Kassy Coan is always on the fly

Bing program manager Kassy Coan gives Microsoft’s fascination with “the cloud” a whole new meaning. When she is not working on Bing’s… Read More

Geek of the Week: 15-year-old Sriharshita Musunuri is a thermoelectrics innovator

At 15 years old, Sriharshita Musunuri has a resume that would be impressive for a graduate student. Which is all the… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘Loot & Legends’ designer Jonathon Loucks is living a gamer’s dream

Jonathon Loucks’ world is full of wizards, warriors, alchemy, and enchanted weapons. That’s because he’s the lead game designer of Loot… Read More

Geek of the Week: Colin Walker is a technical evangelist by day, gamer by night

Colin Walker got his first PC at age six, his first custom gaming rig at 12, and by high school he was… Read More

Geek of the Week: From startup to Microsoft to Facebook, Nick Berry is a tech virtuoso

Nick Berry has had an notable career in the technology industry. After receiving a Master’s in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, he… Read More

Geek of the Week: Former Amazon manager Paul Furio envisions games as weekly episodes

Paul Furio had a big job at Amazon, managing teams that built the gaming software development kit, sample games and 3D… Read More

Geek of the Week: Microsoft’s Erez Benari moonlights as a steampunk and Star Wars sculptor

Erez Benari is a geek through and through. He spends his days working on the Microsoft Digital Certificates Infrastructure (public key… Read More

Geek of the Week: Lesley Baker makes apps to help kids deal with emotions and pain

Lesley Baker is a software developer and mother of two. When her oldest son started struggling with physical pain, she… Read More

Geek of the Week: Jack Bell is helping to define the future of the connected car

As a writer, hiker and musician, Jack Bell does some of his best thinking outdoors. As a software engineer at Airbiquity,… Read More

Geek of the Week: iOS developer Josh Parmenter moonlights as an electronic music composer

Josh Parmenter is an iOS developer for Vectorform, specializing in mobile and iOS platform, but unlike your typical CS grad,… Read More

Geek of the Week: Karan Goel cultivates a hacker culture at the University of Washington

Karan Goel is a University of Washington computer science student who designs, builds, and ships software with the goal of… Read More

Geek of the Week: Lisa Picard sees real estate as ‘art in its largest form’

Lisa Picard, an executive vice president with Skanska USA, is not your typical real estate developer. Here, for example, is… Read More

Geek of the Week: GraphLab CEO Carlos Guestrin is unlocking the potential of machine learning

Carlos Guestrin wants to bring big data and machine learning to the masses. Guestrin, the CEO and co-founder of GraphLab, is the Amazon Professor… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kentaro Toyama explores ‘Geek Heresy’ in the developing world

Computer scientist Kentaro Toyama is a former Microsoft researcher who co-founded the company’s India research lab, working in the country for many years before becoming a UC… Read More

Geek of the Week: Jean Paoli, president of Microsoft Open Technologies

There was a time when Microsoft and “open technologies” were diametrically opposed, but the Redmond company has increasingly been changing… Read More

Geek of the Week: Software engineer Eli White makes the world his workspace

Software engineers are in high demand, and Eli White had no shortage of opportunities upon graduating from University of Washington in… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘See Jane Fix’ founder Alex McConnehey fixes devices with a personal touch

Getting a tablet or smartphone fixed by Alexandra McConnehey is not your ordinary repair shop experience. No dropping off your device at a… Read More

Geek of the Week: Lytro Illum lead designer Markus Wierzoch, Artefact design director

Camera technology company Lytro is getting lots of headlines this week for its second-generation light field camera, called the Illum — a DSLR-style… Read More

Geek of the Week: Matthew Mistele, 14-year-old Xbox game developer

Matthew Mistele, a high school freshman at the Bear Creek School in Redmond, Wash., likes to play tennis, soccer, golf,… Read More