Hello and welcome to our Meet the Team series, in which we aim to give you deeper insight into the minds and personalities of those who make up this eclectic, close-knit group. We are developers, marketers, and technical support engineers, and at work we craft everything from Microsoft reporting APIs to mobile email applications. And outside of work? Let’s just say racing against the machine during hackathons, building architecturally sound beer towers during retros, and paddling down the Charles during the warmer months are simply the beginning.

Say hello to Dan – grill master of SoftArtisans’ summertime BBQs, poker player extraordinaire (true story – Google it), soccer all star, not Sheldon Cooper.

1. What do you do?
As VP of Operations, I am in charge of all the financial, operational, legal and HR aspects of every business located at 3 Brook Street, Watertown, MA. I’m also the BBQ cook.

2. What are you listening to right now?
The voice in my head.

3. When you were 5 what did you want to be and why?
A lawyer because I liked Perry Mason.

4. Fill in the blank. Contrary to popular belief _____.
I am not Sheldon Cooper and I do understand context.

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Hello and welcome to our Meet the Team series, in which we aim to give you deeper insight into the minds and personalities of those who make up this eclectic, close-knit group. We are developers, marketers, and technical support engineers, and at work we craft everything from Microsoft reporting APIs to mobile email applications. And outside of work? Let’s just say racing against the machine during hackathons, building architecturally sound beer towers during retros, and paddling down the Charles during the warmer months are simply the beginning.

Meet Kate, SoftArtisans’ technical support guru by day, poetry slam artisan by night.

1. What do you do?
Technical support and web app consulting. I fix things. Then I make other things. This requires learning a lot of new technologies constantly. If you name a technology, I can tell you what mistakes I’ve made with it!

2. What are you listening to right now?
“Commando” by the Ramones. Over and over again. Because it’s so awesome.

3. If you could build any app, what would it be and why?

I’ve been working on this stupid thing off and on. It generates random free-form poetry and (almost, the algorithm is still a little off) sonnets. It uses a custom CFG that I’ll never be satisfied with.  I’m a performance poet in my spare time and it’s super fun to pull out my phone and tell the audience I’m quite literally writing the poem at that moment. When it works.

4. When you were 5 what did you want to be and why?
A ninja that tamed lions. True story. I was going to learn ninja skills, get some lions together, and be a superhero. I don’t think I need to explain why.

5. If you were a beer what would you be and why?
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