Noah Gift

CTO

Name variants:
Noaah Gift, Noa Gift

Contact Information

Last Update
Jan 30, 2016
Location
San Francisco, CA
Company

Workplace

Sqor Sports
CTO

San Francisco, CA

Industry

Sports

Work History

CTO

SF
We are hiring!
from Jul 2013

Advisor

Davis
from Jan 2013

Head Of Web

SF
I ran Web Engineering and hired 13 developers additional developers in approximately one year, while I rebuilt the organization. My main responsibilities included: Managing between ~25 dev...
May 2012 — Jul 2013

Founder/CTO

San Francisco
Co-founder of a LLC, created by several UC Davis MBA graduates, that writes Mac OS X software for the Mac OS X app store. Personally wrote all of the application code for product in Cocoa. ...
2011 — Sep 2012

Director of Engineering

San Francisco Bay Area
Managed all aspects of engineering including: operations, software, recruiting, and human resources from series B to series C funding. 10 reports within 3 teams including remote employees ...
Jul 2011 — May 2012

Founder, CTO, CEO, and GM

Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Zealand, San Francisco
Founded consulting & software company where I worked both full-time and part-time over the years. Some of the projects I have done are below: Large Social Networking Django/JQuery 1.0 ...
Jan 1998 — Jan 2012

Associate Director Engineering

Manage diverse dev team, including remote contractor. Technology Stack: RabbitMQ, Splunk, C#, F#, Python, Erlang, PowerShell, Ruby, New Relic, Hadoop Custom Web Analytics Development for...
May 2010 — Jul 2011

Senior Technical Director

Dealt with scary concurrency problems. Led a team of developers architecting multi-data center asset management system. Used Data Mining to solve legacy architectural problems that jeopar...
Jul 2009 — May 2010

Senior Shots Technical Director

PyQt and Python development on James Cameron's Avatar film. Replaced a legacy code publishing system developed in 1 year, in 2 days (48 hours straight coding) from scratch. Wrote a multi-...
Oct 2008 — Jun 2009

Software Engineer

Software Engineer doing Python programming for Data Center Management Application. Wrote a massively multi-threaded SNMP autodiscovery engine in Python. R&D on Solaris LDOM 1.0 tech...
Mar 2007 — Apr 2008

Production Engineer

Developer/Video FX Engineer/Infrastructure Engineering
Jan 2006 — Mar 2007

Lead Editorial Systems Engineer (Editorial Architect)

Managed Avid Editorial engineering for 3 feature Films and FX. Wrote automated software distribution system. Helped create first 3D feature animated film pipeline for Sony Pictures Animat...
Mar 2005 — Jan 2006

Avid Engineer

Video Engineer/Avid Engineer/Systems Administrator Wrote automated software distribution system Worked on first 3D feature animated film produced by Disney..not Pixar (Chicken Little)
May 2004 — Mar 2005

Lead/Senior Avid Engineer

Architected large-scale fibre channel Avid/Editorial solutions. Provided 24/7 engineering support to Television Shows.
Sep 2003 — May 2004

Lead SysAdmin Administration Department

Systems Administration for Caltech Administration Department Expert OS X Desktop Support for Noble Prize winning President, Dr. Baltimore. Attended graduate school full-time while working...
Aug 2000 — Aug 2003

Engineering Supervisor

Editing/Sound/Camera/Engineering. Managed Television Truck Crew and contract hires. Family business
1987 — 1999

Freelance Network Television Editor/Television Engineer

Freelance Editor for ABC Network News in Los Angeles. Edited content for nationwide broadcast Patched live satellite network feeds. Television Engineering tasks: Video Engineering, Audi...
Jun 1994 — Aug 1994

Occupations

Executive
Technology Director
Advisor
IT Professional
Computer Software Professional
Technology Manager
Technical Managers
Software Developers

Skills

Python
Cocoa
Erlang
F#
C#
PowerShell
Linux
Windows
SQL
Java
Ruby
PHP
Z-Shell
R
Unix
Mac OS X
Objective-C
.NET
Statistics
Microsoft Excel
Mathematical modeling
Hadoop
MongoDB
OS X
Minitab
jQuery
NoSQL
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