We're excited to welcome nine extremely talented people to our growing team. As is the tradition at reddit, we asked each of the new admins to introduce themselves in their own words:
John-William Trenholm (
/u/notenoughcharacters9), systems administrator
Hello! I'm the new operations admin. I have been focusing on random backend services making them more fault tolerant. I'm really interested learning how to manage a system at reddit scale(webcale + 2.) I recently moved to San Francisco from
/r/austin to pursue my dream job. Its awesome to work for a company that shares the same values that I do. I love spending time in different cities' subreddits. I also love reading in
/r/startups and
/r/entrepreneur . I also lurk on various food subreddits(
/r/slowcooking/r/food) learning to hone my skills.
/r/lego is cool too.
Chris Stephens (
/u/thorarakis), full stack engineer
Hello. My name is Chris, and I like long walks through code and making the web run faster. I love abusing parentheses and finding small ways to get big performance improvements (stop resizing images with css people!). I come to reddit by way of several states and companies but still identify as a Seattle local. When on reddit I'll be cruising
/r/earthporn, lurking on
/r/fantasyfootball or staring at pictures of snow on
/r/skiing and
/r/backcountry. When not on reddit you'll find me brewing/drinking beer, commuting to work via mountain bike trails (suck it NY), climbing mountains and then usually skiing down the other side of them.
Adam Winn (
/u/curioussavage01), junior front end developer
Hello reddit! As the front end padawan I will be working with the other front end devs to build the UI for redditgifts and other reddit projects! It makes me feel proud to work for a company that supports the fight for net neutrality and the fight against mass surveillance. I love anything Computer sciency, especially programming in JavaScript, and playing with Cryptocurrency. I am a native Utahn and avid cat lover. When I'm not on my computer I am dreaming of how I can convince my lovely wife to let me buy another motorcycle. My favorite subreddits are:
/r/bitcoin,
/r/programming,
/r/cats
Ryan Merket (
/u/ryanmerket), product manager
Hey everyone! I'm Ryan, but a lot of people just call me by my last name, ‘Merket'. I'm going to be building tools that help people run ads on reddit. When I'm not on reddit, I'm usually hanging out with my family (amazing wife and son) in Oakland (
/r/oakland), or hitting one of the amazing trails in Northern California. When I'm not
/r/outside, I love to watch football (
/r/cfb and
/r/nfl) and baseball (
/r/sfgiants). Before reddit I worked at Facebook and also founded a few
/r/startups.
Jennifer Morrow (
/u/DoNotLickToaster), user experience designer
Hi! I'm Jennifer, and I'm going to be working on reddit's user experience design. So, user, how's your experience? If it's any short of breathless, enraptured euphoria, that's my bad from now on. I've been designing Firefox for the last few years, and before that I was at NASA and VMware. Favorite subreddits are
/r/fifthworldproblems,
/r/outside, and
/r/burningman. When not redditing, I'm hang gliding or homebrewing beer.
Nina Tekwani (
/u/ninatekwani), marketing manager
Hi, I'm Nina (pronounced like 9a), and I work on the redditgifts marketing team. I'm a St. Louis native and a big fan of the
/r/Cardinals. My life tends to be centered around social media but when I'm not online, you'll either find me hanging out with my dog Sophie, on a road trip, or behind the camera shooting lifestyle photography. My favorite subreddits are
/r/photography,
/r/photoshopbattles, and
/r/aww.
Melissa Cole (
/u/MiamiZ), software engineer
Hi, reddit! I'm a software engineer that recently seized the opportunity to work on my favorite site. I hope to create some awesome new features for you guys, so I'll be perusing
/r/ideasfortheadmins often (submit your ideas!). When I'm not redditing, you can find me scuba diving
, snowboarding, cooking, or
playing games. I'm coming from Tennessee (
go Vols!) where I worked for a really great programming firm and grew up in
Miami. In both cities, I spent my time hiking, camping, boating, snorkelling, and caving. When I'm not cranking out code
, I definitely plan to take advantage of all that California has to offer. I look forward to helping make reddit better (if that's even possible)!
Justin Bassett (
/u/Drunken_Economist), data analyst
I figure out things with numbers. Previously, I was figuring out things with numbers and clean energy at Bloomberg in NYC, then I was figuring out things with numbers and internet in Chicago. I moved out to Salt Lake City with my wife Emily and my dog Toby. On reddit, you can find me on the sports subreddits - between the
Bills,
Red Bulls,
Vols, and
Sabres, I haven't been properly happy in years. Off reddit, you can find me at the nearest pub or dog park.
James Pearson (
/u/xiongchiamiov), software engineer
Hi there! I'm just zis guy who'll be trying to grow reddit to be bigger, awesomer, and generally more enjoyable for everyone to use. I come via way of San Luis Obispo, where I worked with an excellent team at iFixit (a reddit Gold partner, wink wink) making sure everything kept running smoothly. On reddit, you'll primarily find me on
/r/netsec,
/r/cscareerquestions, various other programming-related subreddits, and lurking on
/r/elint; offline I play drums in a cover band, collect far too many books, and occasionally fail at tap-dancing.
We're still hiring! If you would like to join the reddit team check out
/r/redditjobs for the latest job postings at reddit. If you are just looking for a job in general here is
recent blog post we did highlighting helpful subreddits for finding work. We have also put together an
applying best practice based on resumes we have received in the past, which would be useful for job seekers to review even if they are not applying to reddit.
