Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Houston.
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.
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 Molecule. @university-of-michigan MBA, Adjunct at @university-of-houston-1. 10+ years developing enterprise software @sungard @ibm @bearingpoint.
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).
CTO and co-founder of @whimseybox. Previously co-founded @bestfriendbox, worked at @gowalla, @amd, @vaynermedia
Tech Entrepreneur. Owned consulting practice specializing in software development and big data with Global 500 clients. Building Enterprise startup.
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
Founder Fictionaut • Worked at @kickstarter, @msnbc
@hp, @merrill-lynch, @pelco-by-schneider-electric • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
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
Founder & CTO @boutiika. Strong education & industry experience in both tech (BS CS/EE Rice; MS CS Stanford; Oracle) & legal (JD Stanford; Latham & Watkins)
MS in Digital Arts & Sciences at UF, Bachelor Computer Engineering at USB, Worked at Grooveshark and co-founder at Powerdot
Faculty Univ. Houston, Postdoc Stanford, Ph.D. USC, MS/BS MIT
Father, web developer, and pizza maker
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WcxtTyA7JPbtEiKkrRgz7VHaFcMXTjYUZA8POIwMIu0/edit
CTO / Founder of @gamebuilder-studio, Lead UI Team @ Shutterfly, Lead Dev. @ Fujitsu Founded Revelation Designz, BA in 3D Animation
http://gamebuilderstudio.com
Director, R&D @procyrion, Founder @enventure • MD from @baylor-college-of-medicine, BioE at @university-of-southern-california
IT - @brainfund • Worked at @accenture • Studied at @pennsylvania-state-university
Developer at Fayceoff. Worked at SocialCubix as lead developer, developed @facebook application and Webs.
Experience building solutions from concept to production as a freelancer.
http://accreu.com
Technology Enthusiast. Co-founder Storagy, Bucketly, Photorg. Team member at @intel. Strong technical background. MS @purdue-university MS @TAMU
http://keith.io
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/
Founder/VP of Product at Jason's House • Empowering Home Buyers. Computer Science, Software Engineering Background. Studied @texas-a-m-university
Co-Founder @lrngo • Former Applications Engineer at @texas-instruments • Studied at @rice-university, @northwestern-university
Founder A Advantage Safe & Lock, LLC • Worked at @continental-airlines, @cutting-edge-closets
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.
Embedded systems programming and hardware design, bare metal micros, and mechatronics.
Founder July 2012, The Close 2
Software engineer & project manager with 12 years experience in finance technology. Looking for new opportunities. C++, Unix, Python, data management.
Founder Myke Larry
http://www.informaticscommerce.com/blog/
Founded @rigzone.com and sold to Dice Holdings in 2010.
R&D in software & hardware, Robotics Mentor, Entrepreneur, Music & Aviation Aficionado
CoFounder, Cygnet Risk Group, Ltd.
Founder of @khrona (we make @awesomium). Worked at Stanford. Strong programming background. BS in Computer Science.
Robotics Engineer: I'm here to make the impossible, possible
Rice Bioengineer; Masters student at Virginia Tech
Founder @konfide
CTO at several startups. Startup Programmer looking to learn and grow; NLP/AI/ML; Knowledge Modeling; Data as a Service
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
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Worked at @mtgk-institute • Studied at @rice-university
http://thepuzzlesolver.blogspot.com
Rice math major, programming since 11 years old, exposure to almost every modern programming language.
Business-minded front end developer and UI/UX designer who loves using design and technology to solve problems and do good since 2007.
Software Developer & Imagineer. I like learning, discussing, and diving into challenges. Founder of http://tech.pro
http://www.intelligiblebabble.com
Rice Elec Engr, MD EmerMed,
on practice sabbatical for entre/development
CMO Medical InformaticsCorp - Medical Device Info Integration
WorldVistA EHR
Statistics undergrad @ Rice; data analysis, visualization, and machine learning in R -- telling meaningful stories with data.
http://mattdelhey.com
Bioengineering PhD Student at Rice University; Nokia Sensing X Challenge Finalist; HHMI Cancer Research Fellow; Healthcare Innovation Enthusiast
Co-Founder of Reach • Studied at Vanderbilt University.
Rice EE, some background in CS/Software, building mobile education apps for underserved schools
Jack of all web trades, I can dive into many projects and problems and quickly start contributing.
http://dkastner.github.com
Worked at @systematix-infotech
SEO Specialist at Forthea in Houston, Texas. Recent graduate from Univ. of the Ozarks (AR).
http://zldoty.tumblr.com/
Founder @brightwork-coresearch, Synbio Researcher, Maker and Open Science Advocate.
http://brightworkcoresearch.com
Rice University BIOE, interested in biological solutions to food/energy scarcity and medical device development/maintenance
Founder @www-bookrental-in • Worked at @schlumberger • Studied at @texas-a-m-university
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.
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
Experience in searching for opportunities, seeing technological trends and evaluating novel product offerings for potential commercialization.
Founder of @corv-studios, passionate full stack developer, and serial technical entrepreneur.
http://oscarjgomez.com/blog
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.
Full-stack web developer and product manager. Experience with front-end and back-end technologies building high-quality features and solving problems.
Cisco Computer Engineer with People Skills & Business Acumen, Certified Scrum Master, Android App Developer, Embedded Developer, Lean Startup Entrepreneur
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
Built teams and products in multiple industries with both business and consumer focus. Full stack experience, from data center to "cloud" services.
"Polyglot" Software Engineer specialized in Rails, jQuery / Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, and much more.
http://bryangoines.com/
Looking for internships for summer 2014; Computer Science Major at Smith College; Geo Programmer for Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab
Seeking new adventures, opportunities and challenges in a new city: an adept communicator and natural leader strongly motivated by embedded systems.
Studied at University of Houston
MBA with Finance concentration. CS and Math BSc. Programming since childhood. Have worked as consultant mostly for financial cos and telcos.
UNC Alumni, 1 Facebook application, 1 Android application, IBM Co-op, PMO Analyst at fortune 200 company, LAMP stack
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.
I am a web developer, designer, musician, and student. I also help run @UHREDLabs, University of Houston's tech startup accelerator.
Studied at @university-of-houston, developer at @lookallure
Rice CS, has many experience
Developer that believes opensource will save the world
Twenty years professional experience as a manager/lead/team member of computational
algorithm/software development and data analysis projects.
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
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
Founder of @instia. Programmer, designer and web developer.
Studied at @self-taught
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
Studied at @mba-1, @ashford-university-1
I enjoy building new tools for information work that free people from tasks better entrusted to machines
http://smarterer.com/micahstubbs
Founder @pigeonly. Partner at @Egreen Web Sevices LLC.
Founder GoZabba • Worked at @gvo, @aquasol-controllers
Worked at @university-of-houston-clear-lake-1, @tietronic-inc-capstone-project • Studied at @university-of-houston-clear-lake-1
Deployed Enterprise Applications for internal and external customers. Strong enterprise development, project management, project execution, operations.
Founder Oriental Medway
Math guy with loads of .net experience at startups. PhD student at UH currently.
Launched a successful messaging app
Associate - IT Advisory Services/Information Protection at KPMG
Multi-talented project manager with a strong drive for self-improvement and setting ambitious goals.
Experienced IT professional.
Tech: Microsoft Technologies, C#.NET
Domain: Energy Trading, ETRM, Banking and Finance
HPC System engineer
Simulation, well test analysis, ms project, matlab, excel, vba,
Founder EventBoost. Bachelor Comuter Science and Mathematics (Midwestern).
http://kheiverroberts.com/blog/
Senior Consultant at Quorum Business Solutions, Business Liaison for several upstream clients providing technical support for land and GIS applications
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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.
chad hatten
Self-taught; fast learner; love to spend time learning anything new, especially new technologies and frameworks.
Masters student at University of Houston in Computer Science, working as Teaching Assistant,2 years work experience in TCS, Intern at UNICO software's
Founder of Findthatstyle, Web Architect & Programmer
http://kwhitley.com