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    Jeff Widman

    Jeff Widman

    Owner, RockClimbing.com. Founded/exited: @pagelever & @brandglue. Infrastructure Software Engineer. Marketer grew @youtube to fastest growing page on @facebook.

    Entrepreneur Bellingham Western Washington Un...
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    137 Open Positions · €50k–kr2577k/yr
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    RockClimbing.com
    RockClimbing.com
    Owner 2013 - Present (almost 13 years)
    Founded in 2001, RockClimbing.com gets tens of millions of pageviews per year.

    As the owner and sole employee, I handle everything including writing new features in... more Flask, tuning MySQL & PostgreSQL, configuring Nginx & uWSGI, managing dev/staging/production environments using Ansible and Vagrant, trafficking millions of ad impressions per month, etc
    Unified
    Unified
    Director of Research 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
    Wrote internal framework for retrieving and analyzing tens of millions of datapoints from Facebook’s Graph API using Python, Celery, and PostgreSQL.
    TechCrunch
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    TechCrunch
    Intern 2008 - 2009 (3 months)
    I was initially hired for data entry on CrunchBase, but after three weeks, I hired someone overseas and completely outsourced my job. I then grew that into a team which completed... more 3x the work at 1⁄2 the price of a US intern.
    Netskope
    Netskope
    Software Engineer 2016 - Present (over 10 years)
    PageLever
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    PageLever
    Founder 2010 - 2013 (about 2 years)
    Grew this SAAS business providing marketers with analytics and publishing tools into a company with 450+ customers including Nike, VW, MTV, NBA/NFL/FIFA/NHL teams, Porsche,... more Sephora, US Navy, Pink Floyd, U2, etc.
    BrandGlue
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    BrandGlue
    Founder 2009 - 2012 (over 3 years)
    Started this marketing agency while still a college student. As specialists in Facebook marketing, without spending any money on ads, we helped YouTube become the fastest... more growing fan page in all of Facebook and the Redskins become the fastest growing NFL team on Facebook. I was quoted as an expert on Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, AdAge, Adweek, Wired, TechCrunch, Mashable, Entrepreneur Magazine, etc.
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    Unified, TechCrunch, RockClimbing.com, BrandGlue, PageLever, Netskope
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    About
    Achievements

    I've started and sold two companies, and can switch hit between software engineer, marketer, and entrepreneur.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Python Flask Nginx PostgreSQL MariaDB Go (Golang) Ruby
    Locations
    Menlo Park Silicon Valley Redwood City Mountain View Palo Alto Los Altos
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