About
Hi, I’m Matt Culbreth. Thanks for stopping by.
I’m a technology and software guy in Atlanta. I’m actually a native Atlantan, having grown up in Gwinnett County and then going to Georgia Tech. I got out of Tech in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and since that time I’ve been living and working in the area. Married with two kids, living in East Cobb, at the neighborhood pool most nights.
I’m the CEO and co-founder of Bravadosoft, a software company creating the first Social Analytics Extranet. I’ve been working on that since May of 2007 with a couple other guys. It’s been a great experience working on a software startup. We started out with just an idea I’d had when consulting and we’ve turned it into a really nice piece of software. We’re the first product to combine Business Intelligence with social collaborative features, all in a Web 2.0 interface on an on-demand infrastructure. It’s a great product and it’s been a ton of fun.
I’ve also worked a bit with some independent consulting over the past year. That work has been split between Ruby on Rails development and Business Intelligence consulting. I like Business Intelligence, but I’m telling you nothing is as fun as RoR hacking. I honestly wish I’d done a lot more of this over the past year, even on just small projects in my spare time. What a great framework.
I’m exploring a couple of personal projects at the moment. OpenMart is going to be an open source database engine, specifically for query-intensive applications like reporting marts. The main difference with this DB and others out there will be automated aggregate (cube-like) calculations and retrieval. When you’re doing BI applications most of the data is highly aggregated and then drilled into from various points on the hierarchy. OpenMart will make that much faster (like a few orders of magnitude faster). I’m also working on a new email client for the Mac. There’s not a good one right now, or at least I don’t think there is. So I’m going to play around with that.
Anyway, feel free to contact me at mattculbreth AT gmail.com. I’m online quite a bit and hang out on Reddit and Hacker News. You can follow me on Twitter too, where I’ve developed a cult following of over 100 people. Of course I’m on LinkedIn and Facebook also.
Take care!