Chuck Freedman is dedicated to driving platform success across all industries. His roots include the emergence of modern web APIs in 2005, leading development on Yahoo! Maps platform. Chuck applies a decade+ of platform expertise, within a 16 year technology career, leading platform business strategy, platform marketing and API product development to help businesses drive innovation, partnerships, quality app integration and developer adoption. Chuck’s talents for tailoring API Strategy have contributed to API success recently in healthcare, content delivery, media, financial services and retail, among many API verticals. Prior to joining Mashery, Chuck’s efforts opening up APIs at Ribbit led to developer community growth of 6,000 in its first year and culminated when the breakthrough voice & messaging platform was acquired by BT in 2008. His first book, Yahoo! Maps Mashups, was published in 2007 to promote partner and developer adoption of APIs including maps, Flickr and others. Born in Boston, Chuck relocated to Silicon Valley for a few years. Following the acquisition of Ribbit, Chuck and his family welcomed a move back to New England, where you'll find him, his wife and two sons at Red Sox games looking forward to more Boston championships! Specialties: Platform strategy, architecture, development and evangelism. Partner and developer community engagement. Product vision, management and design. Market research and assessment, technical writing and baseball analogies.

Chief Developer Advocate, Cloud Platforms Group, Big Data Solutions at Intel @ After nearly 3 years working with amazing folks at Mashery to bring platform success to dozens of brands, I've welcomed an opportunity at Intel to once again lead developer engagement & enablement for something entirely new. With deployment underway by an incredibly passionate team within Intel's Data Center Group, this role allows me to advocate for developers' needs and introduce new communities to a platform solution that should have seriously meaningful impact across many industries and organizations. My interest has never been higher to enable innovation around what I consider truly breakthrough technology. As release dates and events are now being scheduled, I'm looking forward to sharing more details over the next several months. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Greater Boston AreaFounder @ Enriching production company managed by my wife, Jamie. Together we've written and published a children's book series, The Plow Family Adventures, along with an educational game, Alphabet Blizzard, across most mobile devices. Other creative projects are always in the works. From October 2010 to Present (5 years 3 months) Greater Boston AreaDirector, Vertical Insights @ As Director, Vertical Insights, I endeavor to recognize and centralize the knowledge, strategies and solutions that help our customers grow and expand their API programs within their industry. It’s part strategist, part analyst and contributes to our customers’ platform growth. I’ve been working with APIs in one capacity or another for well over a decade. In this new role, part of another great team at Mashery, I'm immersed in specific verticals to get the deepest understanding of what makes APIs work within their industry. From October 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 6 months) Director, Platform Strategy @ Chuck Freedman is Director of Platform Strategy for Mashery’s Strategy Services team, dedicated to driving platform success for APIs across all industries. Mashery is the leading provider of API management technology and services, including Platform Strategy. From May 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 6 months) Chief Platform Evangelist, Product Manager @ As Product Manager, defined and managed release of applications across Samsung TV, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Kindle Fire and Nook devices. As Chief Platform Evangelist, architected APIs around Linux-based OS and unique device controls. Defined application submission and review process. Attracted community of developers to build apps for litl device-based platform. From November 2009 to May 2012 (2 years 7 months) Director of Developer Platform @ Architected company-wide developer platform approach as Director of Developer Platform, offering revolutionary telephone, voice & messaging APIs. Through careful architecture and highly visible conference appearances, the developer platform was built up to serve a community thousands of interested developers building attractive and useful applications featuring Ribbit’s valuable services. After launching Ribbit’s SDK and growing the community to over 6,000+ developers within 6 months, the company was acquired by BT for $105m. From April 2007 to November 2009 (2 years 8 months) Sr. Platform Engineer @ Lead developer for Yahoo! Maps, integrated Satellite/Hybrid imagery, usability & performance enhancements bringing the web application live to 20 million users. Lead API releases to development community of 3000, mastering geo-location, image & advertising APIs. Innovative maps mashups secured movie promotional deals and unprecedented monetization dollars. Advanced web and mobile development within various Yahoo! properties, optimizing organization-wide development approaches through components and best practices. Advised technology usage & capabilities at the executive level. From November 2005 to April 2007 (1 year 6 months) Consultant @ Architecture and development for dynamic ad modules for eBay's massively visited homepages in the US, China and Japan. Each module was engineered for optimized performance and maximum code reusability. Strict attention on minimal usage of client-side CPU and resources. Modules feature fluid movement of dynamically populated, metric driven advertisements. From July 2005 to October 2005 (4 months) Director, RIA Development @ Hired as Senior Developer, reached the level of Director of Development being tasked with re-architecting several key products and projects for the eLearning and Gaming industry. Applied new design patterns to existing web application products to optimize development and deployment time. From January 2005 to July 2005 (7 months) Sr. Software Engineer @ Migrated content management system from Cold Fusion to Java/Vignette. Built and deployed production level servers and managed operations inventory. Built dynamic resource management application across existing advanced database systems. From August 2000 to January 2005 (4 years 6 months) Operations Manager @ From 2000 to 2000 (less than a year)

Bachelor's Degree, Communication and Media Studies @ Boston University From 1997 to 1999 1999, Communications @ Colby Sawyer College From 1995 to 1996 Chuck Freedman is skilled in: APIs, Strategy, Platform Evangelism, Product Development, Product Management, Strategic Partnerships, Product Marketing, Mobile Applications, Web Applications, Android, User Experience, PHP, RIA, Java, User Interface