Joseph Smarr
Bio
Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo and was the company's first employee. Joseph is the technical lead for Plaxo's developer platform, focusing on APIs, widgets and partnerships to Plaxo-enable external applications, services, and the social web. Previously, he was Plaxo's web architect and led the development of Plaxo Online.
Joseph holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Science from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.
Work History
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June 2007 - September 2006
Having successully built the NLP e-mail parsing engine that bootstrapped Plaxo's growth, I broadened my role to work more on the server backend and Plaxo Online web site. Which is to say, of course, that I was already wearing many hats as one does at a small startup, but now it was actually my job to do so!
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March 2002 - May 2004
Built a lot of Plaxo's web-based client (complex CGI/DHTML/JavaScript/etc) and also built the Natural Language Processing engine for automatically parsing e-mail messages and extracting contact information.
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February 2000 - February 2002
I worked with the founders and CEO to build and organize the engineering team and work as the bridge between the business and engineering teams. I accompanied the CEO to several fund-raising meetings with VCs as the technical lead. I was also working as a web engineer.
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October 1999 - March 2000
Consulted for WebEx while at Stanford University on building a variant of the business-targeted WebEx platform for college use (interactive grading, meeting with TAs, remote student collaboration on projects, etc.). Wrote specs for several use cases and set up meetings between WebEx and Stanford Student Enterprises for implementation.
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