The Bump App for iPhone and Android | Bump Technologies, Inc.

Investors

Why Bump?

"I've seen team members take a pet idea to the CEO, and have it shipping in Bump a month later."

"After working for a large company, I wanted to make a more visible impact on the company's success."

"The reasons I chose it over Apple and Amazon: I felt like I would have more control over what I was working on, and have more of a say in how things get done."

"I was given a brief description of my assignment and a lot of freedom and autonomy to construct the end result in whatever way I deemed fit."

"People always talk about having a 'work hard, play hard' mentality. Something I realized pretty quickly after joining is at Bump those two are one in the same. Everyone has fun working hard on things they love."

"I work with some of the smartest and most effective people I've ever met, and we are quickly moving forward into massive uncharted but incredibly interesting territory in the mobile world." read more

Our team

Our team includes some of the smartest and most talented developers and designers in Silicon Valley,
and we all share a common goal: to build something people want and have fun doing it.

Head over to our dev blog to read about some of the tools & techniques we use here at Bump.

	David Lieb Co-founder / CEO Dave conceived of Bump while daydreaming in an accounting class during his first year of b-school at the University of Chicago...and then dropped out to start Bump. Before Bump, Dave developed algorithms at Texas Instruments and worked on computer vision at Stanford. He graduated from Princeton, where he pitched on the baseball team.
	Andy Huibers Co-founder Andy wrote the first version of Bump back when he was the best programmer on the team; he now leads the engineering team. Andy's an honest-to-god quantum physicist, with a PhD from Stanford and a Bachelors from Princeton. Before Bump, he founded Reflectivity, a micromirror display startup that was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2006.
	Jake Mintz Co-founder Jake began his tech career dialing CompuServe long-distance from his home in Anchorage, Alaska. After working as a web developer in high school and graduating from Santa Clara University, Jake moved on to technical sales and marketing at Texas Instruments before dropping out of the University of Chicago's MBA program to co-found Bump. Jake leads the Bump office's surfing and music clubs.
	Will Moss Server / Systems Engineer Will works on all things back-end at Bump and deep dives into Android on occasion. He runs Linux on his MBP and claims to like it. Will was a computer graphics researcher at UNC after graduating from Haverford College. He grew up in Boston and worked in NYC, but after an internship at Google, he realized the surfing is better in the Bay Area.
	Austin Receptionist, Head of Security Austin's main responsibilities at Bump include greeting visitors and striking (undue) fear into the heart of the OnTrac guy. Austin grew up in North Carolina, where he met his best friend Will. He now resides in Palo Alto.
	Abby Kirigin Interaction Designer Abby leads the design team at Bump and focuses her time on the interaction design of the Bump mobile clients. Abby worked as a freelance designer for several bay area startups prior to Bump, and she also cofounded Tipjoy, a Y Combinator startup for simple & social micropayments. Abby studied philosophy and CS at NYU and has a Masters in HCI from CMU. She lives in San Mateo with her husband and two kids.
	Jamie Turner Server / Systems Engineer Jamie is responsible for most of the Bump back-end communication system, which is built using his open source evented I/O framework Diesel. Before Bump, Jamie led the server and systems team at YouGov, a leading market research company. He studied Computer Science and English at UCLA, and when he's not chasing his two kids around, he plays guitar and drums in Bay Area cover bands.
	Sahil Desai iOS Developer Sahil is the biggest Apple fanboy in the office, and he's proud of it. After graduating from Purdue, Sahil immediately began developing for Mac and iOS, working on apps like Domai.nr, Yahoo! Search, and Square. He grew up in Botswana, loves golf, and uses 'u' in words where he shouldn't.
	Sadie Bascom Bump Evangelist Sadie makes sure that everything in the world of Bump is good, from talking to users to getting the word out about Bump's newest features. Sadie joins us from the wild world of the NYC advertising industry, where she worked after graduating from Fordham. Sadie is a proud member of the Bump surfing team.
	Seth Raphael iOS Developer Seth is an iPhone Magician. No, really, he's a magician. Seth has a Bachelors in Magic and Technology and a Masters in Wonder from MIT's Media Lab. Seth is responsible for the magic that makes Bump work, on the client-side and probably other places we are not aware. Be careful what you think about around Seth, because he'll read your mind.
	Indy Khare Android / iOS Developer Indy specializes in client-side mobile development, both on Android and iOS. Before joining Bump, Indy founded a mobile startup that created some of the most popular early iPhone apps. Indy did his Masters at Stanford focusing on HCI and design after graduating from UCSD. To clear his mind, Indy spends his weekends hiking and trying out delicious new restaurants.
	Tom Greany iOS Developer Tom works on both the iOS client as well as the back-end infrastructure that makes Bump the most extensible messaging platform around. Tom studied Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, where he, ironically, developed a passion for mobile software, wireless devices, and startups. After completing the Bump internship program with flying colors, he hasn't looked back.
	Ian Macartney iOS Developer Ian started out as a summer intern at Bump, where his first project was the extremely popular iOS Music Sharing feature. Unable to give up the fame, popularity, and incredible social life that resulted, he put his Stanford Masters on hold to stay at Bump full-time. Before work on most days, you'll find Ian surfing somewhere in the Pacific ocean.
	Kevin Gabayan Data Scientist Kevin is the Bump data guru. While studying for a PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford, Kevin worked at Google and NASA doing computer vision and machine learning research. He finds patterns and anomalies in Bump usage data, along with many other special investigations. Kevin enjoys playing the sax in local jazz and blues jam sessions.
	Lindsey Heine Product Design Engineer Lindsey designs and builds secret, yet-to-be-released products at Bump. Her background ranges from hardcore engineering (laser TVs) to user-centric product design (interactive whiteboards). Lindsey graduated from Georgia Tech and did her Masters in Design at Stanford. She lives in San Francisco and likes to ride bikes.
	Michelle Wu Recruiter Michelle helps build our amazing team. Michelle worked in Venture Capital at DCM before getting her MBA from Stanford, but don't worry, she's got an Electrical Engineering degree from Princeton, so she's legit. Michelle has a passion for gourmet food, but she despises all condiments.
	Shona Dutta Visual Designer Shona owns every pixel in Bump. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Shona ran her own graphic design consultancy and worked for cool startups like Evernote and Meebo before we wooed her to join Bump. Shona has an infatuation with very nice writing utensils.
	Bernardo Núñez Product Design Engineer Bernardo designs, prototypes, and user-tests new products at Bump. Before joining Bump, he designed and launched interactive whiteboard products at Luidia. Bernardo has a bachelors degree in Industrial Design from UNAM University in Mexico City, and he lives in San Francisco.
	Chris Perry Product Analytics Chris is in charge of understanding what users want and why they love Bump. Before Bump, Chris spent several years with YouGov in various analytics and product roles supporting their survey and polling platforms. Chris has a Bachelors degree from BYU, where he studied Statistics and Economics, and a Masters from Stanford in Management Science and Engineering. He speaks Spanish, plays guitar, and praises R with an Argentine accent.
	Christian Wyglendowski Server / Systems Engineer Christian is one of the best Python programmers you can find. Despite how happy he looks, bugs make him very angry. He often writes unit tests just to watch them fail. Before Bump, he spent several years with YouGov, building out their online survey system and data analysis tools. Christian graduated from Malone College and lives with his family in Ohio.
	Tim Douglas Server / Systems Engineer Tim is another success from the Bump summer intern class of 2010, joining Bump full-time after graduating from Haverford College. Tim works on the server team where he does everything from developing new user-facing features to building data tools and APIs for developers. Tim wins the highest d/dt(wardrobe) award at Bump.
	Natalie Hargrove Office Admin Natalie joins Bump after working at both a hardware startup (Reflectivity) and a software startup (School Loop). It's only fitting that she's now helping the Bump team build products that make your phone useful in the physical world.
	Hootan Mahallati Product Hootan focuses exclusively on making Bump the best mobile product possible. Hootan sits (well...actually he stands, at a standing desk) at the vortex of data, design, and engineering. He previously was the mobile product manager at TripIt. Hootan lives in San Francisco, has an MBA from Columbia, and suffers from ACOS (acute car obsession syndrome).
	Jason TingMobile Web Developer Jason builds interactive web content for the Bump app that makes even native app developers jealous. Before Bump, Jason worked in the iAd group at Apple creating some of the most engaging mobile web apps ever built. Jason graduated from UCSD.
	Mark Smith Operations Lead Mark is responsible for keeping all of the Bump systems running smoothly and scaling to accomodate our rapid growth. Mark has worked at several web companies that have experienced high growth and massive scale, such as Google, Mozilla, and StumbleUpon. Mark lives with his family 2.5 miles from Bump HQ and bikes to work.
	Anders Borch iOS Developer Anders specializes in all-things iOS. Despite having never played golf, he was the chief developer behind the Tiger Woods golf swing analyzer app. Anders is glad to be settling in temperate California after having lived in the cool Nordic climate of Denmark and the desert heat of Phoenix.
	Sam Judd Android Developer Sam helps make the Android client more awesome. Sam is a recent graduate of Middlebury College, where instead of learning foreign languages, he learned programming languages. If you had to be stuck in an emergency with someone from Bump, you would want it to be Sam - he previously worked on an ambulance for the Brandon, VT rescue squad.
	Myoung Kang Controller Myoung counts our beans, making sure our money is safe, our paychecks keep flowing, and our health is insured. She also makes sure nothing too crazy happens in the office. Myoung has been Controlling valley startups for 15 years and attempting to control her three kids at the same time.