Position

Senior Partner

Background Information

Dave is the cofounder of Intridea and a classic Web 2.0 “hacker”. As our lead Architect, and an expert Ruby on Rails developer, Dave heads the Intridea product development efforts. He is an active member of the Rails community and the author of numerous plugins. 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 Connexon Media – a Rails consultancy. Dave also helped found the Washington DC Ruby User Group.

• 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 28, 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 3, 2007)
• Tracking Views in Rails (June 3, 2007)