It turns out that the name "Josiah Carlson" is fairly common. Which one am I?
I was born in Northern Minnesota, was raised in Vermillion, Minnesota,
went to college at Macalester College in St. Paul, and I went to grad
school at the University of California, Irvine. The Theoretical Computer Science group I used to be a part of, links back here.
I've been blogging for over 20 years, starting at personal web pages around 1998,
moving to Livejournal in the Fall of 2002 (see the link below), and this
blog in the summer of 2010. My Livejournal is basically defunct.
Long story short, since defending my dissertation December 2007, I have
(in no particular order), helped rewrite a GPS navigation system
(Networks in Motion), write a traffic avoidance system, bad traffic +
accident along route notification system, 4x ad serving platforms,
desktop and mobile ordering websites, a Twitter analytics platform,
written a book, participated in more than 1600 help threads supporting
Redis, written a video social platform (Youtube Groups, running summer
2009-December 2010), built search engines, integrated with 4 payment
providers, built a banking platform, handled PCI and/or SOCKS compliance
for 2 companies, built maintenance, reporting, logging, alerting,
written and released several open-source projects, including a 95% SQL
layer for Redis + Python (missing joins and aggregates, on purpose).
I've been 1 of 4-5 people in the room for 3x startups originally based
in/around Los Angeles (Ad.ly, Chownow, Zeconomy), have have been 3x
Chief Architect, 1x VP Technology, 1x Sr Engineer for companies
in/around Los Angeles / Orange County that have collectively raised /
sold for more than $502 million in total. No company that I have worked
for have failed; all have sold or continued to function (good business,
venture financing, private financing).
Other sites/profiles/etc., that I post or have posted to include (but are not limited to):
http://twitter.com/dr_josiah
http://www.linkedin.com/in/josiahcarlson
http://www.google.com/profiles/josiah.carlson
I do have a Facebook profile, but it's publicly locked down, and I don't really do anything there.
Old/dead profiles:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chouyu_31/
http://chouyu-31.livejournal.com/
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jcarlson/ (old ICS/UCI page, dead as of June 2017, apparently excluded from archive.org :( )
http://www.myspace.com/chouyu31
To reduce the confusion between myself and other Josiah Carlsons on the
internet; I have never lived in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Florida, Oregon,
or Washington. I've not used Flash, nor have I personally developed any
mobile apps for the iPhone, though a previous company that I worked
for/cofounded (Chownow) did develop hundreds of mobile apps, I managed
the developers involved, and wrote the server-side components before
leaving. I am also not religious.
