Articles about geek of the week

What’s one piece of tech you couldn’t live without? Here’s what our 2018 Geeks of the Week had to say

They work for companies as big as Amazon or as small as the startup they created by themselves this year.… Read More

MIT President Rafael Reif believes that tech, science and students can change the world

Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? Rafael Reif thinks so. He’s an internationally renowned electrical… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW student Christine Betts wins first Allen Institute for AI engineering scholarship

Christine Betts sometimes feels overwhelmed because she “only started programming in college” but a glance at her long list of… Read More

Geek of the Week: Byron Rakitzis focuses on storage at Igneous — and leaves room for music

Byron Rakitzis is the co-founder and architect at Igneous Systems, a Seattle-based data-storage startup. He’s also an accomplished classical musician,… Read More

Geek of the Week: Binnur Al-Kazily turns tech into teaching as a high school robotics mentor

Five years ago, the Bainbridge Island, Wa., School District didn’t have a robotics team and the high school had one… Read More

Geek of the Week: MoPOP senior curator Jacob McMurray turns his geeky passions into life’s work

When Jacob McMurray first went to work in 1994 on the initial development of Paul Allen’s dream for a music… Read More

Geek of the Week: Susan Preston on what makes a great angel investor and the future of clean tech

Susan Preston has been an angel investor since 1999. In the time since she has held senior positions at private and… Read More

Geek of the Week: Data scientist Muhammad Ahmad’s many pursuits include AI, art and simulations of dead people

As a senior data scientist at Groupon and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the… Read More

What was the most important technology of 2016? Here’s what our top geeks say

Some of the most important technology of the past year could very well become the story of next year. And… Read More

Geek of the Week: Joel Eby, longtime creative force at POP, makes the ‘unexpected’ happen

The POP website currently opens with an overlay of text that reads, “Make things happen.” Joel Eby, a creative team… Read More

Geek of the Week: Textio’s Kieran Snyder has all the right words to describe life as a startup CEO

In an email back to our new Geek of the Week, who happens to have a PhD in linguistics and once… Read More

Geek of the Week: Navy Lt. Ryan Chamberlain calls his Blue Angels jet ‘the best office in the world’

While he wouldn’t necessarily think he qualifies as a “geek,” U.S. Navy Lt. Ryan Chamberlain will certainly be performing for… Read More

Geek of the Week: Tech and food fanatic Esmee Williams finds a long-lasting home at Allrecipes

When Esmee Williams first started at Seattle-based Allrecipes 17 years ago, she often needed to explain to people what the… Read More

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: 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: 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: 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: ‘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: 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