Wordnik Company

Description

Wordnik, a nonprofit organization, is an online English dictionary and language resource that provides dictionary and thesaurus content. Some of the content is based on print dictionaries such as the Century Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, WordNet, and GCIDE. Date launched: June 2009 Available in: English Language Type of site: Reference (dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) Created by: Wordnik Society Inc

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Wordnik Employees

Employee
Years
Job
Industry
Devon Copley Devon Copley San Francisco Bay Area Details
Devon Copley's Wordnik Experience June 2010 - August 2010
Job
Industry Internet
Experience
Kaltura  July 2013 - Present
Magnetic West   January 2015 - Present
Several startups including Qwake and Videokard   September 2014 - Present
Kaltura  February 2012 - July 2013
Kaltura  September 2010 - March 2012
Wordnik   June 2010 - August 2010
Stanford Graduate School of Business  2009 - June 2010
Noank Media   January 2007 - 2010
Reindeer Company   2009 - 2009
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University  2006 - 2007

Skills
Digital Media, Web Video, Strategic Partnerships, E-commerce, Start-ups, New Media, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Business Development, Social Media, Digital Marketing, Account Management, Web Services, HTML 5, Video Production, Product Management, Technology Management, Mobile Devices, SaaS, Technical Management, Online Video, HTML5, Television Production, Virtual Reality, Management, Oculus Rift, Mobile Applications, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Consulting, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Android Development, Unity3D, Game Development, Go-to-market Strategy

Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business   2009 — 2010
MS

Yale University   1990 — 1995
BA

John McGrath John McGrath San Francisco, California Details
John McGrath's Wordnik Experience August 2009 - July 2011
Job CoFounder, CPO at Entelo
Industry Internet
Experience
Entelo  May 2014 - Present
Entelo  May 2011 - May 2014
Wordnik   August 2009 - July 2011
The New York Times  January 2008 - August 2009
Wordie   January 2006 - August 2009
Squirl   January 2006 - January 2009
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  November 2002 - February 2006
Vignette  2000 - 2002
StarMedia  1998 - 2000
Columbia Journalism Review  1997 - 1997

Skills
Product Development, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Web Applications, Social Media, Social Networking, Mobile Applications, DevOps, SaaS, Big Dada, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software, User Experience, Start-ups, Web Development, Mobile Devices, Analytics, User Interface Design, E-commerce, Online Advertising, Web 2.0, Scalability, SEO

Education
Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism   1996 — 1997
MS, New Media

Bowdoin College   1988 — 1992
BA, History, Environmental Studies

Weston High School

Joe Hyrkin Joe Hyrkin San Francisco Bay Area Details
Joe Hyrkin's Wordnik Experience March 2011 - August 2012
Job CEO at Issuu
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Issuu  July 2013 - Present
500 Startups  June 2010 - Present
Bunndle  July 2013 - 2014
Wordnik   March 2011 - August 2012
Viximo  March 2008 - August 2012
SingleFeed  December 2010 - 2011
Trinity Ventures  January 2010 - July 2010
Gaia Interactive  September 2006 - November 2009
Yahoo!  April 2005 - April 2006
Tacit Inc.   2003 - January 2005

Skills
CEOs, Board of Director..., Executive Management, Fundraising, Angel Investing, Advisory Boards, Venture Capital, Hiring Personnel, Growth Strategies, Business Strategy, Technology Start-up, Mobile Internet, Information Discovery, Mobile Applications, Web Development, Account Management, Team Leadership, Marketing Communications, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Strategic Partnerships, Sales, Digital Media, SaaS, Business Development, Online Advertising, Strategy, Social Media, Corporate Development, Product Development, Go-to-market Strategy, Monetization, Digital Strategy, Big Data, Digital Marketing, Social Networking, Scalability, New Business Development, Mobile Marketing, Lead Generation, New Media, Global Business..., Management, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Business Alliances, Web 2.0, Enterprise Software, Board of Directors, International Business

Education
University at Albany, SUNY   1988 — 1992
chinese/political science, chinese and poly sci

Beijing Normal University   1990 — 1991
Foreign Student

Clayton Holz Clayton Holz San Francisco Bay Area Details
Clayton Holz's Wordnik Experience June 2012 - September 2012
Job Learning by Doing
Industry Internet
Experience
Barnraiser.us  November 2013 - July 2015
Bear & Bull   October 2013 - December 2014
Emplore   January 2013 - September 2013
Kaazing Corporation  September 2012 - December 2012
Wordnik   June 2012 - September 2012
Bankinter  January 2011 - April 2011
Montgomery & Co., LLC   June 2010 - August 2010

Skills
Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Customer Relations, Business Strategy, C++, Java, Public Speaking, Writing, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, CSS, Product Management, Market Research, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Marketing, Analytics, CRM, Web Development

Education
Stanford University   2008 — 2012
BA, English, Focus: Literary Theory

Colin Pollock Colin Pollock San Francisco Bay Area Details
Colin Pollock's Wordnik Experience March 2011 - November 2012
Job Engineering Manager at Yelp
Industry Internet
Experience
Yelp  January 2015 - Present
Yelp  November 2012 - January 2015
Wordnik   March 2011 - November 2012
Powerset (Contractor)   June 2010 - December 2010
Powerset (Contractor)   June 2009 - June 2010

Skills
Python, Scala, Django, NLTK, Natural Language..., Computational..., Text Mining, Machine Learning, MongoDB, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Computer Science, Git, Linux, REST, MySQL, Software Engineering, Data Mining, Java, Algorithms, Linguistics

Education
University of California, Santa Cruz   2004 — 2009
BAs, Linguistics, Computer Science, and Psychology

Barbara Hui Barbara Hui San Francisco Bay Area Details
Barbara Hui's Wordnik Experience December 2010 - January 2011
Job Software Developer at California Digital Library, Publishing and Access Group
Industry Higher Education
Experience
California Digital Library, Publishing Group   March 2011 - Present
Wordnik   December 2010 - January 2011
UCHRI (UC Humanities Research Inst)   December 2009 - November 2010
UCLA  September 2002 - September 2010
Danish Folklore Project, UCLA   June 2008 - December 2009
Virtual Study Abroad Project, Germanic Lang & Lit Dept, UCLA   January 2008 - August 2009
Hypercities Project, UCLA   July 2005 - June 2007
Urban Planning Dept, UCLA   November 2006 - April 2007
Communication & Network Svcs, UC Berkeley   October 1997 - July 2002
University of California Berkeley  1997 - 2002

Skills
Python, Git, Perl, PHP, Metadata, Information Retrieval, JavaScript, HTML, Information Architecture, MySQL, XML, Web Development, CSS, Data Mining, Linux, jQuery, Databases

Education
University of California, Los Angeles   2002 — 2009
PhD, Comparative Literature

University of California, Berkeley   1992 — 1996
BA, Comparative Literature

Grant Barrett Grant Barrett Greater San Diego Area Details
Grant Barrett's Wordnik Experience February 2008 - February 2010
Job Radio host, public speaker, writer, lexicographer
Industry Media Production
Experience
San Diego Museum of Man  2012 - Present
A Way with Words (Wayword, Inc.)   2006 - Present
American Dialect Society   2006 - Present
San Diego Writers, Ink  2012 - 2013
Double-Tongued Dictionary   April 2004 - June 2012
Voice of San Diego  July 2010 - October 2011
American Speech   January 2009 - May 2010
Wordnik   February 2008 - February 2010
Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners  September 2006 - April 2007
Oxford University Press  August 2003 - September 2006

Skills
Public Speaking, Emcee, Keynote Speaker, Lexicography, Radio Broadcasting, Event Hosting, Book Reviews, Writing, Editing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Website Development, Website Management, Email Marketing, Community Engagement, Speaking Engagements, Conference Speaking, Seminar Speaker, Slang, New Words, Neologisms, Radio Host, Public Radio, Linguistics, Entrepreneurship, Published Author, Editorial, Conference Presentations, Seminar Presentations, Entertainment, Master of Ceremonies, Radio Production, Voice Over, Voice Acting, Interviewing, Interviewer, Speakers Bureau, Speaker Management, Language Teaching, TESOL, English grammar, Teaching English, Grammar, Journalism, Improvisation, Public Broadcasting, Corporate Communications, Dictionaries, Publishing, Compere

Education
Columbia University in the City of New York   1999 — 2001
BA, French, Literature

University of Missouri-Columbia   1988 — 1991
Journalism

Jeremy Kahn Jeremy Kahn Seattle, Washington Details
Jeremy Kahn's Wordnik Experience January 2011 - April 2011
Job Computational linguist. Empiricist. Software engineer. Statistician.
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Google  January 2014 - Present
inome  January 2013 - November 2013
Intelius  February 2012 - November 2013
Quid  July 2011 - January 2012
SRI International  May 2011 - July 2011
Wordnik   January 2011 - April 2011
Wordnik   2009 - January 2011
SRI International  August 2008 - December 2010
University of Washington  June 2003 - 2009
SSLI lab, University of Washington EE department   2003 - 2009

Skills
Natural language..., Machine learning, Speech technology, Linguistics, Parsing, Speech Processing, Statistical Learning, Text Processing, Statistics, Python, Computational..., Text Mining, Information Extraction, Perl, Algorithms, Speech Recognition, Research, Artificial Intelligence, Linux, Git, Pydoop, Software Design, Machine Learning, Natural Language..., Speech Technology, Hadoop, Machine Translation, Programming, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, MapReduce, Big Data, Knowledge Representation, Software Engineering, Data Science, Statistical Modeling, Pattern Recognition, Computer Science, Text Analytics, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Distributed Systems, Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis, Recommender Systems

Education
University of Washington   2005 — 2010
PhD, Linguistics

University of Washington   2003 — 2005
MA, Linguistics

Brown University   1993 — 1997
AB, Linguistics

Paideia School   1978 — 1993
High school diploma, K through 12th grade

Branden Dyke Branden Dyke San Francisco Bay Area Details
Branden Dyke's Wordnik Experience July 2009 - September 2010
Job Program Manager at SurveyMonkey
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
SurveyMonkey  January 2012 - Present
SurveyMonkey  August 2010 - December 2011
Wordnik   July 2009 - September 2010
Electronic Arts  October 2008 - April 2009
IAC/InterActiveCorp (Evite; Entertainment Publications   October 2003 - October 2008
All Rise Records, LLC   July 2002 - October 2003
New Horizons Worldwide, Inc.   May 2001 - July 2002
eBuilt, Inc.   April 2000 - May 2001
AdForce, Inc.   March 1998 - April 2000

Skills
Management, Business Development, Software Engineering, Project Management, Mobile Devices, Agile Project Management, Quality Assurance, Agile Methodologies, JIRA, Software Quality..., Online Advertising, Start-ups, Scrum

Education
Ohio University   1993 — 1997
BSC, Telecommunication Management & Business

Tony Tam Tony Tam San Francisco Bay Area Details
Tony Tam's Wordnik Experience March 2012 - July 2012
Job VP Emerging Technolgies at NDN, Inc.
Industry Computer Software
Experience
NDN, Inc.   May 2015 - Present
Reverb Technologies Inc   July 2012 - May 2015
wordnik   March 2012 - July 2012
wordnik   March 2009 - March 2012
Think Passenger   November 2005 - March 2009
various  February 1999 - December 2008
Composite Software  October 2002 - November 2005
galileo laboratories   June 1999 - October 2002
composite optics   July 1997 - February 1999
various  July 1998 - September 1998

Skills
magic, scala, API, REST, Java, Objective-C, Leadership, Scala, APIs, Databases, Scalability, Big Data, Open Source, Testing, Distributed Systems, Hadoop, MongoDB, Agile Methodologies, SOA, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering

Education
santa clara university   1995 — 1997
mba, MBA

university of california santa barbara   1990 — 1995
bs, mechanical engineering

Alex (Nhat) Le Alex (Nhat) Le Fremont, California Details
Alex (Nhat) Le's Wordnik Experience November 2011 - May 2013
Job Startup Boostrapper
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
Marrily.com   May 2010 - Present
Wordnik   November 2011 - May 2013
Alex Le Consulting   2010 - 2013
QuickSolution   October 2009 - July 2010
Designkitchen  October 2008 - September 2009
TubeCaption.com   April 2008 - May 2009
BridgePoint Technologies, LLC   July 2007 - October 2008
Chicago Capital Management Advisors, LLC   September 2007 - June 2008
Custom Data Processing, Inc.   September 2006 - July 2007
Gator Technologies   August 2006 - April 2007

Skills
JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, PHP, AJAX, ActionScript, MySQL, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, Joomla, Visual Studio, VB.NET, Flash, Linux, ColdFusion, Scriptaculous, Backbone.js, WebSockets, HTML 5, User Experience, User Interface Design, Git, Mobile Applications

Education
Lake Forest College   2002 — 2006
B.S., Computer Science and Chemistry

Orion Buckminster Montoya Orion Buckminster Montoya Somerville, Massachusetts Details
Orion Buckminster Montoya's Wordnik Experience March 2008 - October 2009
Job Computational Lexicographer
Industry Information Services
Experience
MDCCLV (self)   2004 - Present
VerticalResponse  May 2012 - October 2014
Quid  May 2011 - January 2012
IDM  March 2010 - August 2010
Wordnik   March 2008 - October 2009
Oxford University Press  June 2006 - March 2008
Software Freedom Law Center  October 2005 - October 2006
Arts Engine, Inc.   February 2005 - September 2005
University of Chicago Library  June 2001 - September 2004

Skills
Python, Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography, XML, XSLT, Data Mining, Django, Mercurial, Vim, Emacs, Grep, Bash, Perl, jQuery, Unicode, Hadoop, MapReduce, AWS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Git, Unix Administration, Italian, Latin, French, SQL, Ruby, Natural Language...

Education
Brandeis University   2015 — 2017
Master’s Degree, Computational Linguistics

The University of Chicago   1998 — 2001
A.B., Classics

Hampshire College   1997 — 1998