Primary Job Title Lecturer Primary Organization University of Michigan School of Information
Location Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Nathan Oostendorp is the CTO of Sight Machine, he co-founder the company in 2011 and a Lecturer at the University of Michigan - School of Information. Nathan started his career as a controls engineer at Donnelly Corporation (now Magna Mirror) where he worked on PLC programming, computer vision, data acquisition, and robotics for a major automotive
supplier.
In 1996 he co-founded Slashdot.org, a major tech news blog which was the center of the Linux and Open Source Software movement. During this period he spun off several other successful open online communities including Everything2.com (an early precursor to Wikipedia) and PerlMonks.org, the central hub for the Perl programming Language. He also created the first Open Source advertising and analytics platform. He then joined SourceForge.net as the site architect and ushered it through a period of growth where it became a top 100 website globally, and hosted several hundred thousand software projects.
He holds a BS in Computer Science from Hope College in Holland Michigan, and an MSI in Information Science from the University of Michigan.
