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Dave Hecker
Fractional CTO at SourceSeek · Technical Lead, Starbright World
Relationship
How we worked together
Dave was the technical lead for Starbright World at Digital Evolution. He guided the architecture while Vu Pham and I built the community, multimedia, chat, and video-conferencing experience at a time when few established patterns existed for any of them.
Projects
Projects we built together
Starbright Foundation · 1997 – 1999
Starbright World — a social network before social networks
Dave led the technical direction for a product that crossed classic web development, desktop multimedia, custom real-time networking, and early Intel video hardware. His role was essential in turning an unusually ambitious healthcare-community concept into software children could depend on.
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The work we shared
Technical LeadershipEarly WebReal-Time SystemsHealthcare Technology
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