Who We Are

We're engineers who love to work with data. We have deep experience in ETL, Data Warehousing, and are contributors to multiple Hadoop projects. We've built, managed, and architected products used by millions.

K-young

K Young

CEO. Formerly Architect at Wireless Generation where he built three flagship products (TPRI, DIBELS, ARIS). Loves using data to help people and companies better understand our world.

Doug-daniels

Doug Daniels

CTO. Formerly Data Architect at Wireless Generation. Led awesome teams to integrate data in the largest school districts in the US. Passionate about building next generation data pipelines on Hadoop.

Jeremy-karn

Jeremy Karn

Lead Engineer. Has led large teams of engineers to build analytic solutions under intense conditions. Universally beloved by his team and his customers.

Scott-haylon

Scott Haylon

Director of Business Development. Previously at TechStars, where he helped create Boston Startup School. Former tech-focused private equity investor with a law degree. Has lots of brains, so wears many hats.

Chris-hoey

Chris Hoey

Director of Engineering, Operations. Held many roles such as Senior IT Manager, Unix Sysadmin, QA Lead, pyrotechnican and downhill mountain bike racer. Solver of engineering trickiness, haver of great stories.

Cat-miller

Cat Miller

Software Engineer. Previously at Humedica, Cat saved lives by building tools for doctors. To decompress, she moved to Hollywood and became the only actor in L.A. with three STEM degrees from MIT. The fact that she can model human trust networks was very helpful in LA.

Jonathan-packer

Jonathan Packer

Engineering Intern, student at Columbia University. Previously used Pig to process financial data feeds; now contributing open-source tools back to the community to repent. Hopes to make data processing in the cloud as convenient as the Unix utilities of his forefathers.

Thomas-millar

Thomas Millar

Engineering Intern, Canadian, student at University of Waterloo. Thomas worked with Mortar in 2012, but couldn't stay away for longer than one semester, and neither could we.

Mark-roddy

Mark Roddy

Senior Software Engineer, previously at Etsy.com and research engineer at UPenn. Has worked on high availability payment systems and human behaviour simulations used to predict terrorist attacks. Hiker of backwoods trails. Collector of vintage computer mice.

Sophia-dominguez

Sophia Dominguez

Marketing Intern. Senior at NYU's Gallatin's School of Individualized Study, where she's writing a thesis entitled "Big Data and its Effects on People". Loves the startup community and is drawn to data, travel, and self-quantification. Prior to Mortar, Sophia snuck into a GigaOm conference, where she acquired 6 Hadoop t-shirts.

Investors

Genacast Ventures / Atlas Venture / Great Oaks Ventures / Chris Lynch, CEO Vertica / Matt Turck, Managing Director Bloomberg Ventures / Richard Dale, Managing Director of Big Data Boston Ventures / TechStars, and more.

Join Us

We're looking for engineers to join our team. See our jobs board.