My name is Chad Whitacre, and this is my homepage.
IChad Whitacre got myhis start in Open Source in 2001. IHe participated in the Python web development boom of the 2000s that gave rise to Django and Flask (myhis own contribution was Aspen). Along the way, Ihe experienced first-hand the tension between volunteer Open Source work and paid closed source work, so Ihe spent the 2010s as founder of a crowdfunding startup called Gittip (later Gratipay). Now here in the 2020s myhis role is Head of Open Source at Sentry, where I leadhe leads the Open Source Pledge and Fair Source initiatives. I blogHe blogs at Open Path.
| Sentry 2020— | Sentry is an application monitoring company that started life in 2008 as a tiny open-source side project and is now worth billions. My role is Head of Open Source. I lead the Open Source Pledge and Fair Source initiatives. |
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| Proofpoint 2019—2020 | I was an Engineering Manager for two diverse and productive teams at an enterprise security company. |
| Idelic 2018 | I was employee four and my role was Engineering Lead. I built an ETL pipeline and made a few key hires. |
| Gratipay 2012—2017 |
I founded a crowdfunding platform that moved more than $1 million
from dozens of companies to hundreds of Open Source projects, and
explored the
limits
of organizational transparency and openness.
Gratipay is survived by a
fork, Liberapay. Vive
Liberapay! Also during this stretch I cofounded SustainOSS, and was an Open Organization Ambassador for Red Hat. |
| YouGov 2010—2012 | I built a data visualization app and some other things. |
| Zetaweb, Etc. 2000—2010 | I cut my teeth as a software developer at small non-profits, off and on as an employee and also through a web consultancy we called Zetaweb. I got involved in Python and Open Source during this period. |
