Brian Krausz is an engineer, entrepreneur, and all around fun guy (Disclaimer: I am Brian and may therefore be slightly biased). More specifically, Brian is a 24-year-old from Long Island who has been in the world of technology for many years. He began at age 15, when he picked up his first part-time coding job: working on the website for an accounting firm (which paid less than his job at Burger King at the time). Through his teachers and coworkers Brian picked up more work, expanding his portfolio with everything from sci-fi non-profits to consulting firms.
Brian attended Carnegie Mellon University, continuing his consulting work during his studies (this time at a higher rate than Burger King pays). During summers he interned at Yahoo (staying on as a consulting when classes resumed), then Mozilla the following year. After finishing his last year of school (graduating a year early with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Software Engineering), he took a job with TripAdvisor in Boston.
After working for TripAdvisor for a year (a wonderful job with brilliant coworkers), Brian was accepted into Y Combinator with his co-founder and longtime friend, Joe Gershenson. They moved to California and founded GazeHawk, the first company to provide webcam-based eye tracking. Brian raised a significant seed round after Y Combinator, including money from 500 Startups. While working on GazeHawk and spending time at the 500 Startups incubator, Brian gave occasional advice to companies and eventually found his way into becoming a mentor for the incubator.
In early 2012 the GazeHawk team was given an offer to join Facebook. Brian is currently there working on product engineering.
Brian can be reached via email at briankrausz@gmail.
Hey Brian:
Like the site, I’ll add it to my feeds. It looks like you are going to have a very promising career ahead of yourself! My only question is: where is your email address listed on your site?
Anyways, cheers from Sydney, and have a good one!
That’s a very good question…I can be reached at brian AT nerdlife DOT net if you wish.
–Brian
Cool Site man
Alex
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hey Brian,
I am a WP plugin developer myself, something I am only really getting into kinda now. My most recent creation is, what I think is, a very handy image manipulation library, which is now wrapped up in a WP plugin.
As I was reading through your notes from the WordPress Meetup presentation a question came to mind. Can you give a fellow plugin developer any pointers on how to get quality information on developing WP-Admin interface? You have obviously encountered this yourself and I am hoping you may be able to advise.
@Ian: Hi Ian. With all of the WP hooks, I find the best thing to do is to use the hook documentation on WP.org, or other website, but not to trust it. I gain most of my insight from browsing through the WP codebase myself. It lets me see exactly where, when, and how the hook will be executed.
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Hey Brian,
When I said I found your blog interesting, I really mean it … see? I even read the About page!
I don’t know if you have the time to check out my site. But one thing we would like to do is to give new programmers something to learn and improve their skills. So, I am wondering if you would be interested in writing some tutorials on your blog? We are actively looking for experienced programmers who love to share their knowledge. We can link to your tutorials from our site.
Thank you.