Jacob Budin is a 25-year-old software engineer. He works at Kettle and lives in New York. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn State with degrees in English and marketing.

Work & Projects

At Kettle (2011-), I am the technical engineer for The IdeaLists, Nautica, New Museum, MAC Cosmetics, and Wishbone.org.

Alkaline (2010-2012) was a next-generation commercial content management system to succeed WordPress. It was abandoned in 2012.

Caffeine (2011) was a Titanium-based, seeping timer and cafe locater for iOS. It was never released.

Trnsmit (2011-) is a weekend project in reverse-engineering Apple .plist files to convert iTunes playlists for cloud music services.

Lithaus (2011-2012) was a sample Django-based application for aspiring writers that included markup-savvy conversion to e-book formats.

Fact Sheet

Personal properties

GitHub, Twitter

Breed of first dog

Shetland Sheepdog

Blend of the moment

Kicking Horse Coffee’s Kick Ass

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

INTP “The Architect”

Number of cookbooks owned

Two

First career aspiration

Infomercial product inventor