About Me

I work at foursquare on the big data team as a software engineer. I get to play with Hadoop, Hive and other fun distributed systems.

Previously, I worked on Hadoop infrastructure at Adconion Media Group. I joined Adconion when Joost was acquired by Adconion in 2009.

I live in New Jersey with my wife, Julie, and my dog, Stella.  A few days each week, I do the daily commute from New Jersey to Manhattan to work out of the foursquare office in SoHo.

Before Joost, I was a PhD candidate in the Rutgers Computer Science Department.  I’ve worked on a number of interesting problems in applied graph theory, including parallel algorithms for shortest path problems and external memory algorithms for visualizing massive graphs.

I attended Lafayette College where I received a BS in Computer Science.  While at Lafayette, I was an avid Ultimate Frisbee player, a hobby which I try to maintain.

Originally, I’m from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania where my parents still live.

2 Responses to About Me

  1. Jake Askeland says:
    June 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Hey Joe,

    I was looking at your undergrad thesis code for the Thorup implementation. I’m working on a project which approximates a minimum partitioning of a bitmap image and uses only vertices shared by multiple partitions in all-pairs path-finding. Could I use some of you’re code, modified to fit my project?

    See my website for current source tarballs and example output.

    Thanks,
    Jake

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  2. joecrow says:
    June 20, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Hi Jake,

    Please feel free to use the code from the Thorup implementation. That code is in the public domain — although I don’t think I ever explicitely mentioned that. And thanks for reminding me about the code — I recently updated my website and I think I abandoned the pages containing it. I’ll make sure to put them back up.

    Joe

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