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Ethan Sherbondy

Human, Web Denizen & Programmer

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S. in Computer Science (completed Spring 2014).

Buzzwords

All things web: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Browser Extensions, Python, Ruby, various flavors of SQL, Redis. I've made mobile websites and implemented responsive designs. Solid understanding of C, Objective-C, Swift, and the Cocoa Touch APIs (iOS). Decent knowledge of Processing. Photoshop, Sketch, and Figma are close friends. Currently dabbling in Clojure(Script) and Elixir.

Experiences

• May 2024—Now at Boxtree in San Francisco, CA: CEO & Cofounder, Making mixed reality tabletop magic happen with Table Space, the ultimate tabletop sandbox for Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro.
• August 2020—April 2024 at Betafi (RIP) in Singapore: CTO & Cofounder. Building the future of User Research with Arjun Arora. We started the company during Entrepreneur First’s 8th Singapore Cohort.
• January 2019—August 2020 at Stripe in Singapore: Full-stack Software Engineer. Launched new payment methods, features, and entirely new markets for Stripe in Southeast Asia, including helping to bring Stripe to Malaysia, and various yet-to-be-announced functionality and payment methods support. Helped grow the APAC Engineering team and worked on cross-functional efforts, collaborating closely with Legal, Financial Partnerships, and go-to-market teams to expand the “Global Payments and Treasury Network.”
• Summer 2015—December 2018 at Clover Food Lab in Cambridge, MA: Systems Engineer. Built and maintained a suite of software for restaurant management and customer engagement, including: an in-house cloud-based POS, a digital signage platform for dynamic electronic menu displays, a custom online ordering app, and various miscellaneous internal tools for business intelligence and supporting day-to-day operations.
• Spring 2014—Winter 2014 at Formlabs in Somerville, MA: Software Intern → Software Engineer. Started the Intern Blog Series, contributed features to PreForm, easy-to-use desktop software for 3D printing, and built factory calibration tools for the Form 1 series of stereolithography 3D-printers.
• Summer 2014 in New York City: Attended Hacker School (now The Recurse Center), a writer’s retreat for programmers. Made friends with a diverse group of people and made small contributions to Open Source projects.
• Summer 2013 across the United States: Co-founded Spokes America, a non-profit group of college students who bicycled across the country teaching fun, hands-on classes in STEM subjects to middle-and-high-school students as we went.
• Fall 2012—Spring 2013 at StartLabs (MIT): Webmaster and software dev. Rebuilt the website from scratch featuring a custom job board application.
• Summer 2012 at Apple, Inc in Cupertino, CA: Worked on Final Cut Pro with the Pro Apps team to ship new chapter marker and clip metadata features.
• Fall 2011 at MIT Media Lab: Undergraduate Research with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group working on fun educational projects with Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum such as Singing Fingers and an experimental iOS version of Glow Doodle.
• Summer 2011 at Bump Technologies in Mountain View, CA: Helped implement the iOS client interface refresh and worked on computer-to-mobile bumping. JavaScript and Objective-C, all day every day. Co-created the winning entry of our intern hackathon, Bill Split.
• Fall 2010 at the MIT Media Lab: Undergraduate Research comparing TV Set-top box usability at the Information Ecology group. I also gave a guest lecture for MAS 571.
• Summer 2010 through Winter 2011: Co-created Listenr, an iOS application for listening to music from Tumblr.
• Summer 2009 & 2010 for Stanford’s Neuroscience Department: Designed and built the original interface for NIMS: a Pylons application that allows research groups to collaborate on experiments, maintain subject information, and upload brain MRIs. JavaScript and Python intensive. The project is in continual development.
• 2007—Present: Freelance Web Development & Miscellanea. Some fun little creations:
  • Interface.blog, where I blawg (once per year apparently) about interfaces.
  • Mondrian Automaton, a site that generates mondrian-esque pictures based on user preference. Images made with Processing.js.
  • Compatriot and Remux, two themes for Tumblr, used by wonderful people such as Amit Gupta.