If your goal as a tech company is to use open standards to break through complexity and regulation, you could do worse than landing Tom Bishop as your CTO.
That was one of
’s successes last year. After launching with a $3 million seed round, the company hired Bishop in June to spearhead its use of the blockchain to create user friendly financial services.
Since its founding in 2009,
has been bringing big data to the place you’d expect to find it — bars.
The app is a convenience for patrons, allowing them to settle their tab from anywhere, give candid feedback on service and even hail an Uber without leaving the app.
But for bars who integrate TabbedOut into their POS systems, it’s an absolute revelation. In addition to capturing customer criticism before it makes it to a scathing public review, TabbedOut gathers valuable data on who’s coming to the bar, how often and what they’re ordering.
Lance Obermeyer recently returned to TabbedOut as CTO after a two year hiatus. He briefly joined the company in 2013 to reboot its engineering department.
We asked him about tech that makes TabbedOut tick, as well as his approach to challenges and what his team is working on next.
E-commerce changed shopping, then mobile changed e-commerce. Now consumers expect consistent experiences shopping and interacting with brands in stores, online and on their phones, and there’s no going back to the way it used to be.
, and its enterprise-scale subsidiary, Mozu, thrive in this new reality. Their online store CRMs are wide open for customization by coding or clicking, so business owners and marketing teams can make the most of each digital interaction.
We spoke with CTO Jason Wallis about the tech behind Mozu, whose e-commerce clients range from $20 million to $400 million in annual revenue.
Kent Bloomstrand started his tech career the old fashioned way: With a computer science degree and a programming job at IBM in 1983.
Over the years, he’s honed his skills at Oracle and Vignette Corporation (later rebranded as Open Text). He joined
as chief technology officer in 2013.
Now, he’s working on cutting edge identity protection software, mining the dark web for the latest criminal techniques and leading teams of engineers to stay ahead of them.
Michele Skelding may not be a CTO in the traditional sense, but few would deny her impact on Austin tech.
She began her career in tech sales, working in Dell’s Internet Partners Division in the late ’90’s. She later became an expert in rugged mobile hardware before joining the Central Texas Angel Network as an investor in 2008.
Now she serves as Senior Vice President of Global Technology and Innovation for the Austin Chamber of Commerce, where she advocates the local industry from coast to coast in search of venture capital, private equity and talent.
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