Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Houston.
IT - @brainfund • Worked at @accenture • Studied at @pennsylvania-state-university
Founder Fictionaut • Worked at @kickstarter, @msnbc
ME from Georgia Tech. Web developer with a year of agency experience. Co-founded Starfish (social calendar) and EZ-Diner (a better wait list for restaurants).
Engineer from @georgia-institute-of-technology; Experience in Smart Grid, microelectronics, and human centered design. Front-end developer, with experience in ZigBee networking.
CEO of Big Data Elephants, 15+ yrs from start-ups to enterprise, prior work at Infochimps (sold to CSC), Performix Inc. (SAP landscape), Cognos (sold to IBM).
http://bigdataelephants.wordpress.com
Faculty Univ. Houston, Postdoc Stanford, Ph.D. USC, MS/BS MIT
Tech Entrepreneur. Owned consulting practice specializing in software development and big data with Global 500 clients. Building Enterprise startup.
MS in Digital Arts & Sciences at UF, Bachelor Computer Engineering at USB, Worked at Grooveshark and co-founder at Powerdot
CTO / Founder of @gamebuilder-studio, Lead UI Team @ Shutterfly, Lead Dev. @ Fujitsu Founded Revelation Designz, BA in 3D Animation
http://gamebuilderstudio.com
CEO/Co-Founder, @archiosoft; CIO, Hart Energy; Chief Developer, @m-c-computers; Oldest of 5 kids; Still a kid at heart; Father of 2 awesome boys! Atypical IT Pro.
CTO and co-founder of @whimseybox. Previously co-founded @bestfriendbox, worked at @gowalla, @amd, @vaynermedia
Founder & CTO @boutiika. Strong education & industry experience in both tech (BS CS/EE Rice; MS CS Stanford; Oracle) & legal (JD Stanford; Latham & Watkins)
Director, R&D @procyrion, Founder @enventure • MD from @baylor-college-of-medicine, BioE at @university-of-southern-california
Father, web developer, and pizza maker
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WcxtTyA7JPbtEiKkrRgz7VHaFcMXTjYUZA8POIwMIu0/edit
CEO of Molecule. @university-of-michigan MBA, Adjunct at @university-of-houston-1. 10+ years developing enterprise software @sungard @ibm @bearingpoint.
Entrepreneur, Full Stack Developer, Founder of @mote-labs-1 & author of Chromemote.com and Flinger.co. Microsoft Imagine Cup & Red Labs Accelerator Alum
http://RobertDaleSmith.com
@hp, @merrill-lynch, @pelco-by-schneider-electric • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
Developer at Fayceoff. Worked at SocialCubix as lead developer, developed @facebook application and Webs.
Founded @rigzone.com and sold to Dice Holdings in 2010.
Technology Enthusiast. Co-founder Storagy, Bucketly, Photorg. Team member at @intel. Strong technical background. MS @purdue-university MS @TAMU
http://keith.io
R&D in software & hardware, Robotics Mentor, Entrepreneur, Music & Aviation Aficionado
Founder Myke Larry
http://www.informaticscommerce.com/blog/
Co-founded nonprofit. (www.spaceacad.org), organized two international conferences, self-learned web development for own projects, worked/s at two startups
http://thoughtful2.blogspot.com/
Robotics Engineer: I'm here to make the impossible, possible
Founder A Advantage Safe & Lock, LLC • Worked at @continental-airlines, @cutting-edge-closets
Founder/VP of Product at Jason's House • Empowering Home Buyers. Computer Science, Software Engineering Background. Studied @texas-a-m-university
Software engineer & project manager with 12 years experience in finance technology. Looking for new opportunities. C++, Unix, Python, data management.
Rice Bioengineer; Masters student at Virginia Tech
Founder July 2012, The Close 2
Co-Founder of Foodsitter. 7 years of trading systems and models in Citigroup. UT at Austin PhD in Compuational Math. Superstrings as MS physics student.
Experience building solutions from concept to production as a freelancer.
http://accreu.com
Co-Founder @lrngo • Former Applications Engineer at @texas-instruments • Studied at @rice-university, @northwestern-university
Founder of @khrona (we make @awesomium). Worked at Stanford. Strong programming background. BS in Computer Science.
Embedded systems programming and hardware design, bare metal micros, and mechatronics.
Founder @konfide
CoFounder, Cygnet Risk Group, Ltd.
Senior CS Major at @rice-university University. Interned at @indeed, @getglue through NYC Turing Fellows Program.
http://adrienpellerin.com/resume.pdf
Studied at @case-western-reserve-university
Software Developer & Imagineer. I like learning, discussing, and diving into challenges. Founder of http://tech.pro
http://www.intelligiblebabble.com
Worked at @systematix-infotech
Rice EE, some background in CS/Software, building mobile education apps for underserved schools
Rice math major, programming since 11 years old, exposure to almost every modern programming language.
SEO Specialist at Forthea in Houston, Texas. Recent graduate from Univ. of the Ozarks (AR).
http://zldoty.tumblr.com/
Jack of all web trades, I can dive into many projects and problems and quickly start contributing.
http://dkastner.github.com
Rice Elec Engr, MD EmerMed,
on practice sabbatical for entre/development
CMO Medical InformaticsCorp - Medical Device Info Integration
WorldVistA EHR
Business-minded front end developer and UI/UX designer who loves using design and technology to solve problems and do good since 2007.
CTO at several startups. Startup Programmer looking to learn and grow; NLP/AI/ML; Knowledge Modeling; Data as a Service
Statistics undergrad @ Rice; data analysis, visualization, and machine learning in R -- telling meaningful stories with data.
http://mattdelhey.com
Co-Founder of Reach • Studied at Vanderbilt University.
Founder @brightwork-coresearch, Synbio Researcher, Maker and Open Science Advocate.
http://brightworkcoresearch.com
coming soon
Rice University BIOE, interested in biological solutions to food/energy scarcity and medical device development/maintenance
Bioengineering PhD Student at Rice University; Nokia Sensing X Challenge Finalist; HHMI Cancer Research Fellow; Healthcare Innovation Enthusiast
Worked at @mtgk-institute • Studied at @rice-university
http://thepuzzlesolver.blogspot.com
Looking for internships for summer 2014; Computer Science Major at Smith College; Geo Programmer for Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab
UNC Alumni, 1 Facebook application, 1 Android application, IBM Co-op, PMO Analyst at fortune 200 company, LAMP stack
Built teams and products in multiple industries with both business and consumer focus. Full stack experience, from data center to "cloud" services.
Studied at University of Houston
Founder of @corv-studios, passionate full stack developer, and serial technical entrepreneur.
http://oscarjgomez.com/blog
"Polyglot" Software Engineer specialized in Rails, jQuery / Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, and much more.
http://bryangoines.com/
Cisco Computer Engineer with People Skills & Business Acumen, Certified Scrum Master, Android App Developer, Embedded Developer, Lean Startup Entrepreneur
MBA with Finance concentration. CS and Math BSc. Programming since childhood. Have worked as consultant mostly for financial cos and telcos.
Experience in searching for opportunities, seeing technological trends and evaluating novel product offerings for potential commercialization.
I am a web developer, designer, musician, and student. I also help run @UHREDLabs, University of Houston's tech startup accelerator.
Full-stack systems guy, from bare metal to UX, but speaks plain English for sales and management types. Tool maker. Tool user. Interested in fun puzzles.
http://www.karlkatzke.com
Worked at Cerner and currently at Calpine as a software developer in Java, .NET and R. Done projects on side to enhance PM and software skills
http://everythingproducts.blogspot.com
I have worked on more than 25 mobile apps on iOS, Android, and HTML5 . I want to work for startups and companies of all sizes to develop their mobile strategy.
Full-stack web developer and product manager. Experience with front-end and back-end technologies building high-quality features and solving problems.
Founder @www-bookrental-in • Worked at @schlumberger • Studied at @texas-a-m-university
Seeking new adventures, opportunities and challenges in a new city: an adept communicator and natural leader strongly motivated by embedded systems.
Worked at @md-anderson-cancer-center • Studied at UT/MDA-MS in Biomedical Science/Cancer Genetics • Studied at UT, Austin-BS in Human Bio: Genetics and Biotech.
MBA holding Lean process specialist with experience in .Net development, windows server administration, as part of internationally distributed team.
Texas A&M EET, Engineer at Texas Instruments, L-3 Communications, and Cisco Systems. Strong entrepreneur aspirations. Experience in Sales, EE, marketings, Software, etc.
Founder Oriental Medway
Entrepreneur, Enterprise eCommerce Architect, Founder of QPIN.ME.
VP - Mobilty Practice Head at Progetan.
In depth understanding of Mobile Business Landscape with special focus on Enterprise Mobility, Healthcare, Location Based Services, Mobile advertising, mVoIP, and Product Engineering.
- Strong Presales, Business D
Founder GoZabba • Worked at @gvo, @aquasol-controllers
Founder @pigeonly. Partner at @Egreen Web Sevices LLC.
Rice CS, has many experience
I enjoy building new tools for information work that free people from tasks better entrusted to machines
http://smarterer.com/micahstubbs
Twenty years professional experience as a manager/lead/team member of computational
algorithm/software development and data analysis projects.
Application Lead on Cloud Products @PROS_Inc. Full Stack Web Engineer. Focus on Front-end JavaScript Backbone.js. Love God. Love People. Love Coffee.
http://life.kalebdf.com
Developer that believes opensource will save the world
Studied at @mba-1, @ashford-university-1
Studied at @self-taught
Studied at @university-of-houston, developer at @lookallure
Deployed Enterprise Applications for internal and external customers. Strong enterprise development, project management, project execution, operations.
Worked at @university-of-houston-clear-lake-1, @tietronic-inc-capstone-project • Studied at @university-of-houston-clear-lake-1
Founder of @instia. Programmer, designer and web developer.
Co-Founder of Kbuuk.com, A Cloud/Tablet based eBook publishing platform designed for the social age.
Co-Founder & CTO at @prognosis-health-information-systems
http://blog.kbuuk.com
Masters student at University of Houston in Computer Science, working as Teaching Assistant,2 years work experience in TCS, Intern at UNICO software's
Senior Consultant at Quorum Business Solutions, Business Liaison for several upstream clients providing technical support for land and GIS applications
Experienced IT professional.
Tech: Microsoft Technologies, C#.NET
Domain: Energy Trading, ETRM, Banking and Finance
Multi-talented project manager with a strong drive for self-improvement and setting ambitious goals.
Math guy with loads of .net experience at startups. PhD student at UH currently.
Associate - IT Advisory Services/Information Protection at KPMG
Simulation, well test analysis, ms project, matlab, excel, vba,
chad hatten
Self-taught; fast learner; love to spend time learning anything new, especially new technologies and frameworks.
HPC System engineer
Founder EventBoost. Bachelor Comuter Science and Mathematics (Midwestern).
http://kheiverroberts.com/blog/
Launched a successful messaging app
Founder of Findthatstyle, Web Architect & Programmer
http://kwhitley.com
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Founder @globalf2f
We are a two mean army my self and my brother who work as a team and loves LAMP more than anything!! iOS and Android developments are our passion!
http://I will comprimise with you on this. If you can get it functional so I can at least show it to the client then I will pay you half of the money. Then when you finish getting the parts to work right, I will pay you the rest.