The web is moving towards sophisticated client-heavy applications that consume an API provided by a world-class backend. Both of these are my specialties. Currently very interested in React.js. We are hiring, send me a message!

Co-Founder & CTO @ Building the communications hub for the enterprise sales organization. From May 2010 to Present (5 years 7 months) Independent Developer @ Independently designed, developed, and published over 16 iOS and Android applications. Miscellaneous consulting for a variety of companies. From December 2009 to April 2011 (1 year 5 months) Co-Founder & CEO @ Co-founded a YCombinator/angel funded software startup. Designed and developed, in its entirety, a complex real-time software system which enables remote teams to collaborate more effectively. Backend based on Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS and Red5. Featured in numerous tech blogs. Was involved in all aspects of the business. Successfully raised a small angel round of funding to sustain the business. From June 2008 to May 2010 (2 years) Software Development Engineer @ Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Data Sync and Replication group. Pushed towards launch of SQL Server 2008. Designed and developed the topology visualizer for peer to peer replication, which is now a core, customer lauded, user interface feature of the latest version of SQL Server. From July 2007 to May 2008 (11 months) Developer/Researcher @ Helped with research to stitch together sequences of images of an esophagus using novel mosaicing techniques to allow for improved diagnoses of diseases. From October 2006 to March 2007 (6 months) Developer/Researcher @ Helped to develop a novel system which automates the process of labeling images on the web using a number of automatic labeling mechanisms. Co-authored WEBINSIGHT: MAKING WEB IMAGES ACCESSIBLE, (ASSETS-06, Portland, Oregon.) From January 2006 to June 2006 (6 months) Lead Web Developer @ Lead developer in creating backend functionality for several large national websites. From May 2005 to October 2005 (6 months)

B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics @ University of Washington From 2003 to 2007 Gordon Hempton is skilled in: Hibernate, Ruby, Distributed Systems, Mobile Applications, Android, User Interface, Scalability, Git, Software Engineering, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Start-ups, Java, User Experience, Software Design, Microsoft SQL Server