Jeff Cole

About

Achievements

- Founded Input Factory in 2012, acquired by Google in 2014.

- Founded PatientsLikeMe in 2005, still growing with $100M investment in 2016.

Input Factory/Polar:

Polar: A Simple App That Explores Just How Smart A Simple App Can Be
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/11/27/polar-a-simple-app-that-explores-just-how-smart-a-simple-app-can-be

Google Acquires Opinion Poll Service Polar For Google+
https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/11/google-acquires-opinion-poll-service-polar-for-google/

PatientsLikeMe:

PatientsLikeMe Nabs $100M, Works to Advance Personalized Medicine
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2017/01/06/patientslikeme-nabs-100m-works-to-advance-personalized-medicine/

"Practicing Patients" NY Times Magazine, March 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/magazine/23patients-t.html

"The World's Most Innovative Companies 2010" (company #23) FastCompany, May 2010
https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2010

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Agile Entrepreneurship Git Management PostgreSQL Product Management Ruby on Rails Software Development Start-Ups Web Technologies iOS Swift R

Experience

Rocket Insights

iOS + Full Stack software development consultant 2016 - 2019 (almost 3 years)

Mixture of native app development and back-end work for multiple clients. Includes hands-on development, project management, and client interaction. I enjoy working with... more

Google

iOS Rapid prototype developer 2014 - 2016 (over 1 year)

Helped prototype new app ideas for the Streams, Photos, and Sharing division. I was the sole developer on the prototype team. I built iOS prototype apps as well as generated... more

Input Factory

Founder, CTO 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)

Acquired by Google in 2014. Co-founded with UX expert Luke Wroblewski. Our product, Polar, was a quick and easy way to create and vote on great-looking photo polls. Polar... more

PatientsLikeMe

Founder, CTO 2005 - 2012 (about 7 years)

As the founder and CTO, I specced and built the entire stack (Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL). By 2010, I built the A+ engineering team to 14. I had hands-on development responsibilities... more

ALS Therapy Development Institute

Lead Developer (consultant) 2003 - 2005 (almost 2 years)

Worked with executive team to re-design and re-build internal tools for managing laboratory results, and display them on public website. ASP and SQL Server, with some R integration.

Designed... more

IntraLinks

Developer (consultant) 2003 (7 months)

Designed and built application functionality, using Plain Old Java Objects for business logic, BMP entity beans + Oracle 9i for persistence, and session bean facades with... more

Autodaq

Principal Developer 1999 - 2002 (over 2 years)

Responsible for software development of Autodaq's online used vehicle marketplace. Worked with Product Management to determine requirements and scheduling. Lead team of... more

Hollywood Stock Exchange

Lead Developer 1997 - 1999 (about 2 years)

Lead developer for HSX's entertainment website where members can trade stocks and bonds representing movies and actors.

Responsible for the stored procedures containing... more

Advent Design

Lead Software Developer 1995 - 1997 (about 2 years)

Sole software developer with 100% responsibility for all software products. Worked directly with clients to determine needs.

Visual Basic, Access, Programmable Logic... more

Founder

PatientsLikeMe, Input Factory

Employee

Google, IntraLinks, ALS Therapy Development Institute, Advent Design, Autodaq, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Rocket Insights

Education

Jeff Cole

Technical Co-Founder.