James Morris Nachlin

Nachlin James

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Only Compute.

CV:

I am a tehcnology professional. I create tools and experiences to delight users.

I started in IT, working at a small firm called Money Media. There, I ran the helpdesk for a busy newsroom serving the mutual fund industry. The core of the business was an email newsletter (but not just any email newsletter - this one had great information in it!) and so I ran an SMTP server as well to deliver that document to the inboxes of financial professionals.

At Gawker, I was the first sys admin for a growing blog empire. I moved them from a single shared host to a load-balanced cluster of hardened Linux machines. I learned about security and BGP routing, building firewalls and high performance web applications.

I am also the creator of garbagescout. Garbagescout was a pre-smartphone, maps-based garbage and street score tool. Find something cool, snap a picture with your phone, and send it to Garbagescout with an address. It will appear on the map as a burning garbage can. I wish I still had the burning garbage can animated gif I created. Best feature, IMO.

I was also one of the first technical hires at Buzzfeed, working for the brilliant Jonah Peretti. I built a trend forecasting web crawler, which traversed the blogosphere using a markov chain analyzer to find new ideas. It didn't quite work but I am still proud of it.

A friend and I came up with a brilliant idea that the standard m3u playlist format could be a list of URLs, and the shareable playlist was born. Out of that came Webjay, which was bought by Yahoo! and got me a job working at the home of Rasmus Lerdorf, inventor of PHP. By this time I was a full time software developer

I have recently worked at A+E Networks, as product owner for the sites for History, Lifetime, and A+E.

Contact:

Please contact me by emailing 'inquiry' at this domain name, nachlin.com.

Elsewhere:

I still share photos on flickr. Mostly I use flickr to showcase the work I do building custom bicycle frames. I am an accomplished amateur frame builder, working mostly in lightweight fillet brazed steel. Frames that I have built have travelled across the USA, and have carried their riders 10s of 1000s of miles.

You can look at my bookmarks to see what I'm bookmarking.

I'm also on Linkedin and github, if you are in to those things. You can even fork the code for this cool web site and create your own, using HTML!