496code is led by Jim Brink, Steve Hockema, and Cleber Vieira. We've been working together on software projects, almost continuously in one form or another, since 1998.

Jim:

• Triple-B.S. in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Math (IU Bloomington)
• M.A. in Math from Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar (top US STEM scholarship)
• Ph.D. work in Math at UC Berkeley (dropped out to join Determina)
• Co-founder and software architect, Determina
  • Technical lead on enterprise management product for host security
  • Worked on zero-day reverse engineering of Windows exploits and patches
• Co-founder, Aji/Branchfire
  • With Steve, wrote first PDF and SSH apps for iPhone/iPad
  • Grew the company (self-funded) to ~25 people
• 10+ years of self-employed software development/consulting work

Steve:

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Purdue), joint Ph.D. in Computer Science & Cognitive Science (IU Bloomington)
  • Specialized in Machine Learning and AI
• Professor, University of Toronto (taught programming, databases, information security, etc.)
• Engineer at AT&T Bell Labs
• Microprocessor design engineer at Intel
  • Designed/developed instruction set architecture and microarchitecture on early Pentiums, including early MMX features (SIMD precursors of modern GPU operations), bus architectures, and low-level memory management features
• Co-founder and senior engineer at Branchfire
  • Wrote highly-optimized PDF processor and SDK, still used as library by many 3rd parties
• Engineering lead for (big) data science/engineering efforts and tech strategy at BlueDot
• Technical lead for Autonomous Driving project (as well as Chief Research Strategist in Canada) at large international company
  • Designed low-power GPU solutions (incl system arch) for DL and DRL image processing and planning
  • Designed and optimized the sensor architecture for all vehicles

Cleber:

• Jack-of-all-trades who runs all of our systems, tests all of our shit, and manages all of our third-party integrations.
• Worked at the industry's top companies, including:
  • Mobile QA, Scrum master, offshore team management at Intel
  • iOS QA lead at OpenText/EMC/Dell
  • Kubernetes microservices deployment and offshore management at Cisco
  • Datacenter engineer at VMWare
• Experienced with cloud deployment, configuration and cost management, specifically on AWS and Azure.
• Manages the full 496code software release process, including: QA, test automation, staging deployments, case verification and release notes, production deployment, and customer interaction.
• QE expertise in mobile platforms (iOS/Android) and API testing
• Experienced as scrum master and managing offshore development teams