Who is Jayson Falkner?

Jayson is a contributor to Bit Apocalypse. His garage in Portland, OR, is one of the main meeting places for waging the war against the 1’s and 0’s. He invested the millions he made from mobile apps and startups to buy a modest house and a beer fridge stocked with unlimited local brews. Jayson has known Tom since before the internet.

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• Lives in the SW quadrant of Portland, OR (Multinomah Village FTW!)

• EEN/CS BS and Bioinformatics PhD that hacks the genome for Counsyl

• Gave two popular Ignite Talks featured by O’Reilly

  • ”Science, it works bitches!” which is really about genomics
  • ”Giant (Danger!) Jenga” which is really about a 300lb, 6ft tall Jenga set

• Wrote 4 books about Java/Web/JSP/Servlets. One of which was pretty popular years ago

• Co-authored the JavaServer Pages specifications

• Makes Android apps, including Super Mustache (Google Play, Amazon Apps)

• Expert in LC-MS/MS Proteomics and High Throughput Genomics. Tired of explaining what the heck those things are.

• Frequently plays disc golf at Lunchtime and Pier Park

If you are up for geeking out in Portland, Jayson is usually down. These days he does as much Python/Django/HTML/CSS/JS work as he does Java/JSP/Servlet/HTML/CSS/JS work. He also frequents DorkbotPDX and is known to hack electronics, play with robotics and do metal fabrication. Always up for fun side projects and squishing people with his giant jenga set.

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