About

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Contact me at brit [at] this domain .com

Howdy, my name is Brit and I grew up and live in Dallas, Texas. I’m in my mid-twenties, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I have a beautiful wife, Sarah.

After graduating, I worked as an engineer at Caterpillar for 2 years. Caterpillar is a great company to work for, but while there I got that inexplicable entrepreneurial itch. Google, Youtube, Facebook etc. were all happening right before my eyes; who couldn’t be interested in that stuff?

So, I quit my day job to work with web technology full time. I pay the bills with contract work while hacking on passion projects in my free time.

I’m also involved with the Dallas startup scene. I’m a resident at Cohabitat and active in the Dallas Google Technology Users Group.

What are my Interests?

Cooking
Web Developer tools
Cloud Computing, EC2, Google App Engine
PHP, CakePHP
Data stores (SQL and non-SQL)
Gaming, Xbox360, PS3, Wii, MMOs

chriswalters

great to see your product launch,, congrats!!

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