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Dave Hecker

Fractional CTO at SourceSeek · Technical Lead, Starbright World

Digital Evolution

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

Digital Evolution / 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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Themes

The work we shared

Technical LeadershipEarly WebReal-Time SystemsHealthcare Technology

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