Andrew Montalenti

Charlottesville, Virginia Area United States

CTO at Parsely, Inc.

Technology / Software / Internet

Builder of software products for over a decade. Leader of fully distributed teams who work on engineering, product, and design. Co-founder & CTO of Parse.ly, the analytics platform for digital storytellers. As a hacker, I have a broad background in languages, toolkits, and platforms. Special depth of knowledge in Python, JavaScript, Java, Clojure, and C (in that order). I like simple programming languages that fit in my head -- they let me focus on interesting problems. The main enemy of my productivity is multi-tasking. My allies in productivity are dynamic languages, frameworks, idioms, and UNIX tools. My favorite design pattern is "Interpreter." I believe in thinking before coding. ...