Position

Board Member, Senior Advisor

Background Information

Dave is a cofounder and Senior Partner at Intridea, where he leads the company’s product development efforts.

Before Intridea, Dave spent years at both AOL and IMAKE and received a Masters in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. In other entrepreneurial ventures, Dave built and operated CanYouConnect – a social-networking site that competed with MySpace and Facebook – and Connexon Media – a Ruby on Rails consultancy. Dave also founded the Washington DC Ruby User Group.

Published Posts

• Why Your Company Needs A Rails Development Shop (July 19, 2011)
• Intridea's Scalr on TechCrunch and AWS (April 3, 2008)
• Open-sourcing Scalr (April 2, 2008)
• acts_as_community private beta (February 28, 2008)
• Social Matchbox DC Event on January 28th (January 17, 2008)
• Presenting at acts_as_conference (January 16, 2008)
• Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge (October 29, 2007)
• Campfire SVN and email notification (October 5, 2007)
• with_scope is protected (August 10, 2007)
• Tag Type-Ahead with Multiple Items (August 6, 2007)
• Automatically Expiring Sessions (June 4, 2007)
• Tracking Views in Rails (June 4, 2007)

Dave Naffis's personal websites

• Twitter: naffis
• Blog: http://naffis.com