Veterans United Home Loans | #1 VA Lender for Homebuyers | Icebreaker

Veterans United Home Loans | #1 VA Lender for Homebuyers | Icebreaker

Members

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General Partner at Redbud VC

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Founder at Forge Studio | Design Systems (multibrand, cross-platform) | UI/UX product design | B2B, B2C, and Enterprise UX

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Co-founder and CEO at Zapier. The most connected AI orchestration platform.

Nathaniel Broughton

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Vice President at Permanent Equity

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Systems Engineer at Veterans United Home Loans

Charles Wiltgen

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Restructuring Associate at Alvarez & Marsal

Jillian Jackson

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At first glance, my career path might seem unconventional—Journalism, Counseling, Client Advocate, Tableau Admin, Leadership—but there’s a clear thread that ties them all together. Each of these roles has honed my ability to investigate problems, communicate effectively, recognize patterns, resolve conflicts, and bridge the gap between question and insight.

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Sarah Hill, CEO & Chief Storyteller for Healium, is a 12-time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller who’s led successful media teams for the last 25 years. Hill is a former interactive TV news journalist for NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri. She spent decades covering the world’s trauma in Sri Lanka, the Amazon River basin, Guatemala, Indonesia, Zambia, and Congo. A media technologist, Hill has a handful of patents for biometrically-powered stories to reduce anxiety, her company's mental fitness products are clinically validated in 9 peer-reviewed journals and used at the world’s top health, education, and sports enterprises. Hill speaks around the world about the intersection of sentient and spatial computing, media as medicine, AI, and storytelling with EEG, heart rate, respiration, and other bio-data inputs. Healium's roots are in virtual travel for Veterans. In 2013, Hill’s team built a program called “Honor Everywhere”, which uses mobile, virtual, and augmented reality to allow aging Veterans the opportunity to virtually visit their WWII, Vietnam, Korea, & Women’s Memorials. Hill is married with two grown children, three if you count her husband. They have one very spoiled grandchild. A national Edward R. Murrow, National Association of Broadcasters Service to America, National Sigma Delta Chi, and award-winning TV reporter, Hill's team has earned honors from the NFL Player's Association, Consumer Technology Association, P & G Innovation Prize, Mass Challenge, and a "hero award" from the International VR Healthcare Association. You'll find Healium's products on your mobile device on Apple or Google Play or on VR goggles like Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest, or Pico. https://www.tryhealium.com/

Eiríkur Hallgrímsson

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Let's talk about Public Good. Math/Science/Medicine, personal digital sovereignty and secure infrastructure. Lets not talk about AI/ML in the cloud for the purposes of spying on consumers. I'm a very senior Python developer who follows developments in the language and its libraries closely. I've dug into Go for highly responsive systems. I like the ideas in the Nim and Elm languages. I've been developing on Linux and TCP/IP for over 20 years. That's my favorite set of electric trains. I have a strong understanding of the Linux Desktop environments and infrastructure like D-Bus. I love tailoring Linux systems for quasi-embedded applications. I've used Numpy a lot and I've used PANDAS for ETL and processing big data sets. I've recently worked with PySpark (Apache Spark). Talk to me about anything Free Software or Open Source. I'm a very bright, continually self-educating, developer. I'm a math and science person. I love modern dynamic languages, but I work in C for low-level things. I like semi-embedded Linux devices like the Raspberry Pi because they expose both direct hardware interfaces and high-level APIs. I am a senior expert in all things Raspberry Pi. Coffeescript, Ruby and NodeJS are also in my toolkit. I'm the kind of person you should talk to about completely new blue-sky projects because I'm not locked-into any given technology. On the other hand, if you've just got some Python that needs to be fixed, I'd be glad to handle that for you. I especially enjoy working with unusual hardware and exotic input devices. Unicode, character sets and fonts are a major area of interest to me. At the moment I've got a number of projects running on the Raspberry Pi and Odroid's XU4 and N2. I build kernels for Raspberry Pi and other embedded systems. I use the low-latency, preempt, patch set for Linux frequently. Specialties: Raspberry Pi, Python, Desktop/Mobile Linux, Javascript applications programming via Coffeescript and jQuery, Linux tailoring and configuration. Ruby language. Scientific number-crunching in (fast) Numerical, NumPy, Python. XML-RPC, web services. TCP/IP, UDP networking from C, GTK+ user interfaces.