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imack/README.md

Origin Story

Originally from Whitby, Ontario, I went to the University of Waterloo for my undergrad and masters in Computer Science. While I was there I did the co-op program and worked at The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Google. My master’s thesis was about using Wikipedia to better extract info for question answering.

When I was done school I moved to Vancouver to work at a greentech startup then at SAP before starting my own startup at the (now defunct) Growlab accelerator. That startup was a geo-local-mobile one (all the rage in 2011) which failed. After that, I started working on MapDash as tech lead. While working on MapDash, we started on a notification-based publishing solution for Instagram and we made “latergram” at a hackathon in late 2013.

We launched “latergramme” in spring 2014 and the founders went full-time on it in early 2015 which was rebranded to Later in spring 2016. Later raised $1.5MM in 2015 and has grown to over 100 employees, over a hundred thousand paying customers, and ranks around #1500 in Alexa's US Website Ranking.

I’ve also been an Instructor at Lighthouse Labs (both web and iOS) and am a pretty big hackathon enthusiast.

Some Talks I've Given

Awards

Publications

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