Hello. My name is Jon Pierce.

I'm a software developer and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I founded BetaHouse, a coworking community for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives.

I'm a founding member and trustee of The Awesome Foundation, a grassroots microphilanthropy collective which gives out monthly grants, no strings attached, to people doing awesome things in the world.

I love community, coworking, startups, indie music and movies, and Mets baseball. I work mostly with Ruby, Python and JavaScript, often with Rails, Django and jQuery, and dabble with technologies like the iPhone SDK, Firefox extensions, Solr, Sphinx, Hadoop, XMPP and Erlang. I also wrote a lot of Java back in the day. I use a MacBook Pro, Linux servers and platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. I like big data, visualizations, location-aware applications, social software and ubiquitous computing. I embrace open web standards like OpenID, OAuth and Microformats. I help organize events like BarCamp Boston, DevHouse Boston, Jelly Talks, Music Hack Day and Open Government Hack Day.

I can be found elsewhere on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Upcoming, Delicious, Flickr, Foursquare, Brightkite, Dopplr, Yelp, Disqus and FriendFeed.

Contact me at contact@jonpierce.com or 617.639.3093.