While it’s not conventional to
brag about the people who previously worked at a company, we do so at CommerceNet
because we’re proud of them and their accomplishments. The alumni listed
here worked at CommerceNet for a while and then, as we fully expected, moved
on to do new things. That’s why we like to say that CommerceNet’s
not only a good place to be, it’s a good place to be from—and
return to!
Jesse Andrews—Jesse
was a CommerceNet fellow in 2005 and worked on a number of projects, including Greasemonkey,
Book Burro, and anti-phishing
user interfaces. As a freelance developer, he continues to manage Greasemonkey
and Book Burro in addition to numerous other Open
Source and Web-related endeavors.
Aytek Celik—
Aytek was an entrepreneur at CommerceNet in 2006-2008, applying Web
2.0 communication tools to projects in health care, medical research
and personalized mapping tools. She went on to become VP of marketing
and product development at CollabRx.
Ian Fischer—Ian was
at CommerceNet in 2007 and worked on anti-phishing with Rachna
Dhamija. He’s
now a project manager at Usable Security
Systems.
Chris Hibbert—Chris
was a principal investigator on Zocalo while
at CommerceNet from March 2005 – July 2006. He now works full time
on Zocalo,
which is hosted at SourceForge.net.
Rohit Khare—Rohit was
director of research from February 2004 – September 2006, supporting
CommerceNet’s engineering entrepreneurship and investment activities,
working on microformats, and recruiting an R&D team that focused on decentralized
commerce. Currently, he’s founder of Ångströ and owner of
KnowNow.
Ryan Oprea—Ryan was
at CommerceNet during 2006 and focused on Zocalo.
He’s now
an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
and the associate director of the LEEPS laboratory.
Joyce Park—Joyce focused
on Dojo and Mod-PubSub
while at CommerceNet in 2005. She went on to co-found Renkoo with
Adam Rifkin and is currently the company’s chief technology officer.
Adam Rifkin—Adam
joined CommerceNet in 2004 as the director of Open Source initiatives,
collaborating on several projects, including microformats and
Mod-PubSub. He left in 2005 to start Renkoo, where he currently
serves as CEO.
Kragen Sitaker—Kragen
was at CommerceNet from August 2004 – January 2006 and worked
on a number of projects, including Wowbar and microformats.
Michael Travers—Michael
was a visiting scientist during 2007 – 2008, designing and
building prototypes for a Web-based software platform that supports
collaboration among scientists working on therapy development.
He continues his work in this area, serving as a technical consultant
to CommerceNet and as director of research and development at CollabRx.
Yang Wang—Yang
was at CommerceNet in 2005, collaborating with Kragen Sitaker on
a Web-based, decentralized personalization engine with a built-in
privacy protection mechanism based on bloom filters. Currently,
he’s working on his Ph.D.
at UCI.
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