Logan combines a passion for elegant architecture with a grounded, practical approach to shipping code. Prior to his current role, Logan worked as a software engineer at Zillow.com, where he architected and implemented the property search engine. He also architected Zillow’s self-service advertising platform.

At Expedia.com, Logan helped to build the Cruise vertical from scratch. At MSN MoneyCentral, Logan wrote software to track daily statistics on securities in all major domestic and international markets. Logan also started a web services company that he ran from 1997 to 2000, building e-commerce sites for small companies. Logan graduated from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Engineering.

Skills: C/C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Linux/BSD/OS X, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, JavaScript, CSS/HTML, Lucene, Sphinx.