Data Portability Job Opportunity - Do you have a beautiful mind? (CTO/Technical co-founder

[GlamGirlGeek]

DO YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MIND?
Seeking exceptional CTO/technical co-founder for social media start-up

Do you want to disrupt the social media space? Do you believe that
someone has yet to bring a true sense of purpose, relevancy and broad-
scale yet efficient utility to social networking? Do you have a
beautiful mind that can see what is possible and then build it?

I was a member of the founding team of GoTo.com, the company that
revolutionized search by inventing the paid search business model.
Now, after a variety of other adventures including a few years working
on the DOE public school reform initiative in NYC and some time in the
Internet space in China, I am developing a concept to revolutionize
social media.

I am looking for an exceptional CTO who will provide the technical
vision to my product vision for a disruptive social media start-up -
someone who has extensive experience in delivering complex web-based
applications of significant scale (millions of records/real time
transactions) – both front end and back end - and who is extremely
well-versed in new and emerging web technologies and standards and is
capable of judiciously applying them. Someone who wants to build a
disruptive product through a disruptive (use of) bleeding edge web
2.0/3.0 technology. And someone who is an excellent collaborator.

You will be responsible for crystallizing the product strategy with
me, determining the product architecture; evaluating the right
platforms, languages and technologies to deploy; and hiring, training
and leading an ace technology team to build it. You should embrace
data portability and have experience with OpenID, OAuth, XFN, XMPP,
RSS, REST and the other building blocks of data portability. You
should be very proficient in JAVA, AJAX, Flash, and PHP to name just a
few - and be familiar with statistical modeling/predictive algorithms,
behavioral advertising, ad serving and the exploration of AI/semantic
web technology. You will have a huge white canvas to work on as you
will be coming in on the ground floor of this opportunity. The one
criterion – you have to be passionate about building a powerful and
simple platform, with an elegant and intuitive UI and user experience.

The position is based in NY (no long-distance applications please
unless you are prepared to move yourself to NYC) and is eligible for
possible “technical co-founder” status and equity. Ideally you are in
a position to take a nominal salary in favor of significant equity,
and really ideally you can also contribute some seed capital (as I
will be doing) so we don’t have to deal with fund-raising and
investors while we build out the alpha and beta products.

If this resonates with you, let’s talk. Obviously I am looking for
that rare person everyone is looking for in Manhattan – someone who
brings together that powerful mix of deep technical experience, a
strong personal financial situation, sound business judgment and the
ability to work productively with others. But changing the world
takes amazing people and I am prepared to find that person.

Please send me your resume at step...@sarka.us with a few words
about yourself, your passions, and what it would take for you to be
self-actualized!

p.s. No web shops or other third party providers, please.