I'm a self-taught Web Developer having landed my first freelancing gigs in 1999. Since then, I've lead open source efforts and developed top-secret applications still in use at the NSA. Now, I lead and develop engineering teams that strive to improve people's lives through audacious social impact programs (such as, education, employment, and retirement). - Developed Udacity's first Nanodegree program, redefining the strategic vision for the company leading to a $1 billion valuation - Historic Top Secret/SCI security clearance with counter-intelligence polygraph - Open source software advocate, contributing to numerous projects include the PHP framework CodeIgniter, the Zsh shell framework Oh My Zsh, Adobe's Brackets code editor and the Boxee+ media server firmware