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Quinn Slack

Founder of Sourcegraph

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2013 - Current

    Universal code AI & code search for every developer and every company.

  • Board Member

    2015

    Hack Club is building a national nonprofit that brings coding clubs to high schools nationwide. Students who love music can join band; students who love sports can join an athletic team; but students who want to code have had to go home and do it alone – until now.

  • Co-founder

    2012 - 2013

    Blend Labs is building modern technology for an industry with old problems, transforming massive, disparate datasets and operational inefficiencies into solutions that positively impact millions of homeowners.

  • Forward Deployed Engineer

    2011 - 2012

    Developed products and strategies to avoid foreclosures for two of the top five U.S. banks in the home lending space. Created technology platform to automate and improve decision processes and worked with senior execs and end users to develop and deploy the system to thousands of internal users.

  • Computer Science Researcher

    2010 - 2011

    * Worked on Tcpcrypt (opportunistic transport-layer encryption) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpcrypt) * Created implementations of Web mutual authentication (TLS-SRP), including patches to curl, Apache, NSS, Chromium, Firefox, and Python3

  • Elections Commissioner

    2009 - 2010

    * Planned and executed a successful university-wide elections and funding process with 120 candidates, $2M in student activities funding requests, and 7,500 voters * Cut budget by 50% by designing more effective processes, developing a web-based elections platform, and not spending student government money on beer kegs

  • Various (Opinion Editor, Webmaster, etc.)

    2007 - 2011

  • Owner

    2008 - 2010

    While at Stanford, I developed paid and free apps with 3.5M downloads, including a #1 app in the US store (Fake Text) and the first instant-searching Chinese-English dictionary.

  • Developer

    2008 - 2008

    Created the first music streaming iPhone app for the domestic Chinese market

  • Lead Developer

    2007 - 2007

    First employee. Developed the initial version of what is now at bleacherreport.com.

Education

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