For more information about me (including how to contact me) please visit my website: http://www.juliahgrace.com/ High level summary: * Engineering leader with 2 computer science degrees (BS with Honors and MS) and experience building large scale web applications and leading engineering teams. Significant e-commerce and marketplace experience including cart and ordering, backend billing and payments, shipping, fraud detection, affiliate programs and APIs. * 1st employee and CTO at Tindie (tindie.com). Previously Co-Founder and CTO of WeddingLovely (500 Startups Winter 2011), Product Manager and part of the executive team at VigLink (joined right after Series A venture round) and IBM Almaden Research. * During my tenure at IBM Research I published 8 original research publications in peer-reviewed, top-tier Human Computer Interaction conferences, hold several patents and mentored 12 interns. * Experienced and sought after speaker having given invited keynote talks at industry conferences (O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, Where 2.0, O'Reilly Solid), large developer conferences (PyCon, DjangoCon, Midwest.io) and private corporate events. * Extensive experience serving on advisory boards, including: Computer History Museum, Hacker Dojo, California Polytechnic State University and the Django Software Foundation. * Actively mentor early-career engineers at my alma mater, Stanford and through developer bootcamps, such as Hackbright, to encourage and retain women in engineering. Specialties: JavaScript/CSS/HTML, jQuery, Java, Ant, Apache, Tomcat, Git, Linux, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Nginx

CTO @ Tindie was acquired by SupplyFrame in 8/2015. Promoted to CTO in 9/2014. Tindie (tindie.com) is a community marketplace for hardware creators and enthusiasts. During my tenure as CTO I grew the platform to support over 17,000 customers, 3,000 products, and 1,000 sellers in 110 countries. Latest press coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/tindie-the-gadgets-marketplace-for-makers-ramps-up/ We are funded by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz, Boris Wertz at Version One Ventures, Chris DeVore at Founders Co-Op, and several visionary angels such as Dave Morin and Joshua Schachter (founder of del.ici.ous). As the first employee and CTO, I help determine our strategic vision and ensure we are making the right technical decisions to achieve our short and long term goals. I built our engineering team from the ground up and have deep experience with building and integrating with payment providers, shipping systems, shopping cart design and manufacturing. I still write code everyday. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBoard Member, NextGen Advisory Board @ From November 2009 to Present (6 years) Board Member, Computer Science Industry Advisory @ From May 2011 to Present (4 years 6 months) Developer Member @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Mentor/Speaker @ I mentored at the Hackbright software engineering fellowship program in 2012 and 2013, and now my role has shifted to giving occasional tech talks and career advising. From September 2012 to Present (3 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaHead of Engineering @ From November 2012 to August 2015 (2 years 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMember of First Floor Labs Incubator @ Tindie is part of AOL First Floor Labs Startup Incubator Spring 2014 class (http://www.firstfloorlabs.com/). From November 2013 to June 2014 (8 months) United StatesCo-Founder and CTO @ WeddingLovely was part of 500 Startups Winter 2011 class. As the Co-Founder and CTO I designed and built out the infrastructure, taking the product from proof of concept to a scalable, extensible system used by thousands of users. Built out our server topology on Linode, managed our Postgres DB, application servers, etc. From February 2012 to November 2012 (10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Manager @ First product manager and part of the executive team at a venture backed startup in the affiliate marketing space. Lead VigLink to achieve competitive parity, designed a new feature that added an additional revenue stream and handled several key partnerships using collateral I authored. Built product plan and strategy, and instituted first ever set of metrics to track product usage and adoption. Wrote specification and user facing technical documents, conducted in-depth user studies and prioritized, designed and launched product improvements and features. From June 2011 to February 2012 (9 months) San Francisco, CASoftware Engineer and Team Lead @ I was part of one of the world's top User Experience Research groups: the IBM Almaden Research USER group. I built applications and lead teams in both the social computing and the data visualization groups. While at Almaden, I published eight peer-reviewed original research articles and lead the first ever workshop on Microblogging research methods at the top tier ACM SIGCHI (Computer Human Interaction) Conference. I've mentored three teams (twelve students total) of top-tier college students in the IBM Extreme Blue Internship Program. From December 2006 to June 2011 (4 years 7 months) Software Engineer, Extreme Blue Internship @ Tech lead of 3 person intern team, transforming the IBM DS8000 storage product offering from a 2 system install to a contained product by embedded existing enterprise, C++ storage management software directly onto the storage device. From June 2006 to August 2006 (3 months) Software Engineer @ Developer and build manager of web-based offender management application at the Supreme Court of Virginia. System stack was Java + JSP + Hibernate + DB2. Built and coordinated efforts among consultants from different firms to ensure deadlines were met. System was used by all magistrates and police officers in the state of Virginia. Member of the Java development team of a disease management application used by hundreds of nurses at the Health Management Corporation (HMC). Ensured the system was highly reliable, available, and manage multiple, concurrent transactions with large volumes of data. From June 2003 to July 2005 (2 years 2 months) Software Engineer, Engineering Internship @ Built a Java application that mined confidential security logs, looking for access patterns, then visualized these patterns to the end user so s/he could quickly identify anomalous behavior. From May 2002 to August 2002 (4 months)

MS, Computer Science @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From 2005 to 2007 BS, Computer Science with Honors @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From 1999 to 2003 Julia Grace is skilled in: Public Speaking, User Interface Design, User Experience, JavaScript, Product Management, Product Design, Java, Social, Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, CSS, Mentoring, Fitness, Data Visualization, Python, Django, PostgreSQL