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📣 We’re THRILLED to announce a new teammate today: Please join us in welcoming renowned analytics pioneer Robin Stewart to Spindle’s team as our Tech Lead for #VisualAnalytics! 🥳 We didn’t just hire Robin because of his 20+ patents and research leadership in interactive visual analysis (IVA); his background in #MachineLearning and #HumanComputerInteraction from MIT; his distinguished engineering & design innovation at Tableau; or even his entrepreneurial skills as a former startup founder… 🧠 No, we hired Robin because his limitless passion, curiosity, and unique mental toolkit for visual analytics with direct manipulation is among the most *detailed* and *creative* in the world. 🌎 With 15+ years of experience in UX #design & #engineering — both as an independent entrepreneur, and also with #analytics firms like Tableau (acquired by Salesforce), Endeca (acquired by Oracle), and OmniGraffle maker The Omni Group — Robin describes himself as a “software investor” on a mission to “make numbers easier to use” (spindleapp.co/robin-bio). 🧑🔬 He’s not only created *hundreds* of prototypes (https://lnkd.in/g4Km8n69), but has built many fully-featured products from the ground up, including groundbreaking #data exploration app Tableau Vizable (https://lnkd.in/g7Jqjt-N). 📊 In his spare time, Robin likes to explore & practice new art forms — including multiple years of study across aerial acrobatics 🤸, painting 🎨, piano 🎹, acting 🎭, lighting design 🏮, singing 🎤, juggling 🤹♂️, traditional Indian dance 🕺, drums 🥁, and even music videos 📹 (see spindleapp.co/robin-art for more). Not just his mathematical or engineering skills, but his deep artistic and creative talents, are already manifesting themselves in Spindle’s product, and driving our category of #DecisionSimulation forward. 🧠 Suffice it to say, Spindle (spindle.app) is proud and humbled to welcome Robin to the team! 🎉 𝘗.𝘚. We’re hiring other similarly talented team members, including a Tech Lead for Architecture (🏗️ #Go, #Typescript, #AWS), a Senior #FullStack Engineer (🛠 #ReactiveProgramming), a Tech Lead for Constrained #Optimization & #ML (🤖 #MIP, #ConstraintProgramming, #DifferentiableProgramming), and more! If you’re interested things like decision simulation, explorable explanations, machine-assisted creativity, or even automated resource allocation, please reach out: join-our-team@spindle.app 📧

📣 We’re humbled & excited to announce that former Google tech lead and branching #DistributedSystems innovator Patrick Flor has joined Spindle as our newest Senior Engineer! 🎊 A multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary creator & former startup founder himself, Patrick is obsessed with simplifying complex tools to enable discovery, leverage, and even play (🪁) through computation. Tracing his passion for product-minded #engineering back through mathematics & design to Apple HyperCard (like so many Spindlers), Patrick is now Spindle’s Tech Lead for the “core platform” that empowers our beta users to quickly create interactive #simulations without code. 🧮 Patrick was previously an early engineer at pioneering #analytics startup Wagon—acquired by Box—before becoming a Tech Lead for dataflow/ETL at Google. 👨💻 He later served as VP of Engineering at Spindle co-founder Carson Kahn’s penultimate #MachineLearning company—J.P. Morgan In-Residence business Volley AI—in charge of multiple engineering teams & specialities across the country. 🤖 With Volley alum Alex Pearson, he subsequently launched “branching databases” service Platter—originator of the celebrated #branchstack model for distributed systems—with funding from the former SVP of Engineering at Google, CTO of Goldman Sachs, and more. 🛠 When not working or learning (usually both at once!), Patrick casually reprises elements of his former careers as a gifted musician 📯, professional educator 👨🏫, dilettante mathematician 🧮, and casual linguist 💬… always teaching our team at Spindle something new, wonderful, and inspiring. 🚀 Long passionate about “shifting from a world where computers use people, to one where people use computers”, he also previously chaired The University of Kansas’ chapter of The ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, and today lives just a few hours away in St. Louis, Missouri with his loving wife, four brilliant children, and a pup. Please join us in welcoming Patrick to the Spindle (spindle.app) family! 🥂 𝘗.𝘚. We’re hiring other passionate & talented team members, including a Senior Software Engineer for Mathematical Computing 🤖(#ConstrainedOptimization, #MonteCarlo, #OperationsResearch, #DifferentiableProgramming), a Senior Backend Engineer (🏗️ #Golang, #Typescript, #AWS, #ReactiveProgramming), a Business Development Representative (🤝 #MarTech, #BusinessIntelligence, #SalesOps), and more! If you’re interested things like ROI Simulation, explorable explanations, machine-assisted creativity, or even the future of computing, please reach out: 📧 join-our-team@spindle.app