About bitly

bitly helps you collect, organize, shorten and share links. We are currently reinventing how people discover and share content on the web.

bitly is available via our website, browser extensions, mobile web, and numerous third-party tools integrated with our open public API. All links shared via bitly allow users to view complete, real-time traffic and analytics data. bitly also powers more than 10,000 custom short URLs and offers an enterprise analytics service that helps web publishers and brands grow their social media traffic.

The Team

  • Simon Brief Business Development

    Recently married to Mrs Adina Beth Brief. Getting his MBA at NYU. Born and raised on the Upper West Side.

    http://twitter.com/siguy
  • Andrew Cohen General Manager

  • Jehiah Czebotar Lead Engineer

    When not painstakingly shortening urls by hand, Jehiah can be found riding trains, learning Amharic, or building iPhone apps to help others do both of those things more efficiently.

    A lover of data, he has been known to compile amazing personal annual reports documenting the details of his day to day life that most people take for granted, which you can see here: http://jehiah.cz/one-oh/

    It's a little known fact that Jehiah's sleep, not his code, powers bitly.

    http://twitter.com/jehiah
  • Mike Dewar Data Scientist

  • Tim Devane Director of Biz Dev and Sales

    Partnerships, Sales, Revenue Discovery, Sneakers.

    http://twitter.com/tdevane
  • Richard DiMartino

  • Brian Eoff Science Intern

  • Andrew Flockhart Science Intern / Lead Beatbox Engineer

    Andrew Flockhart is a computer science major studying at NYU, originally from Indiana. When not coding, he can be found beatboxing or biking (or both sometimes) in the streets of New York.

    http://twitter.com/andruflockhart
  • Dan Frank Software Engineer

    Dan grew up in Brooklyn, with the mathematical distinction of occupying the zip code corresponding to the first five digits of the Fibonacci sequence. He earned a degree in Math from Yale, and has since been working as a developer at small startups that process large quantities of data, most of it generated in 140 character increments.

  • Dennis Kubes Search Engineer

  • Scott Lederer UX Design Lead

    Scott would like to thank the academy, the industry, the apathy, and the epiphany. Prior to bitly he was a designer on Google Maps/Local.

  • Todd Levy CTO

    Todd Levy was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother and adoptive father in an artist's housing project in New York's Greenwich Village, never knowing his biological father. His first break in acting happened by chance, when at the age of seven he and his friends broke into a theatre to vandalize it. A woman stopped them and offered them each a script and $20, on the condition that they would attend everyday after school. From there, Todd's fledgling career progressed from the New York repertory company run by his father, to the Off-Off-Broadway circuit. At 17 and already sporting a well-honed physique, he became a bouncer at some of New York's hippest clubs to earn himself some extra cash. It was at this time that he changed his name to T-lonious and joined bitly.

  • Matt LeMay Platform Manager

    Platforms, soapboxes, bagels, coffee.

    http://twitter.com/mattlemay
  • Justin Lintz Systems Administrator

    Justin e-mailed bitly about a bug and we hired him to fix it. He was born and raised on Long Island, where he dreamed of one day growing up to shorten URLs. Justin went off to SUNY Albany where he studied Computer Science with Applied Mathematics. Justin is currently the tallest member of team bitly as well as the worst basketball player on team bitly.

    http://twitter.com/lintzston
  • Hilary Mason Chief Scientist

    Hilary spends her days playing with bitly data. Her work crosses pure research, math, and development of product-focused systems.

    She's also a co-founder of HackNY, a non-profit organization that connects talented student hackers from around the world with startups in NYC.

    Hilary recently started the data science blog Dataists (dataists.com) and is a member of hacker collective NYC Resistor. See her crazy hacks or get in touch with her at her personal site, hilarymason.com.

    http://twitter.com/hmason
  • Will McCutchen Software Engineer

    Will wants to grow up to be a fireman, an astronaut, or a typographer.

  • Mario Menti

    Mario founded Twitterfeed, which has since been acquired by Bitly. In addition to Twitterfeed, he is now also involved with the Bitly Enterprise product. Mario works mostly from his London home office (AKA Bitly European headquarters).

    http://twitter.com/mario
  • Kristine Michelsen-Correa Community Manager

    High-tops over heels.

    http://twitter.com/socialdivulge
  • Tracy Pesin

    Tracy has been a mobile applications developer since the dark days of 2002 (five years before the iPhone!) She recently served as Director of Mobile Engineering for Major League Baseball Advanced Media, where she worked on the first versions of the popular At Bat apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. She joined bitly in November 2010 as a developer on the News.me iPad app team.

  • Matt Reiferson DOS C Engineer

    Matt Reiferson is an American software engineer, lunch instructor, and fan of tv's Bob Ross. He is most known as the creator and host of The Joy of Coding in DOS, a television program that ran for twelve years on PBS stations in the United States.

  • Michael Richman System Architect & Bitly Enterprise Product Lead

    Michael designs systems, makes products and writes code. He lives in Denver, CO.

    http://twitter.com/mrwoofster
  • Jay Ridgeway Architect

    Likes: Monster Trucks, Bombay Sapphire, Frank Zappa
    Dislikes: misuse of the word "decimate"
    Favorite magazine: Tape Op
    Favorite movie: Man Bites Dog

    http://bit.ly/jay
  • Matthew Rothenberg VP Product

    Matthew (or "mroth") has spent much of his career in both industry and academia, trying to better understand the social impacts of technology. His goal is to build software which will ultimately make the world a more interesting place. Prior to bitly, he was Head of Product for Flickr.

    http://twitter.com/mroth
  • Saj Salickram Sales Research Associate

    Everyday I'm shufflin'.

  • Anna Smith Science Intern

    What kind of bio? Can you just make up something about how I discovered interstellar travel or I once ate a life-size cookie dough sculplture in the shape of Oprah?

  • Peter Stern CEO

    Before joining bitly, Peter created Zenbe, which made the web a better place with innovative products like Zenbe Mail, Shareflow, and Lists for the iPhone. Zenbe Mail was sold to Facebook in June 2010. Long before that, in 1996, he co-founded Datek Online, which quickly grew to become the 4th largest online brokerage firm, successfully competing against companies that had 10+ year and $10+ billion head-starts. Datek Online merged with Ameritrade in 2002 to form the second largest online brokerage firm. Long before that, Peter went to CMU, and recently helped to start the Open Field Entreprenuers Fund to invest in next generations of CMU founders.

    http://www.linkedin.com/in/iampeter
  • Jeff Tierney Minister of Innovation

    I like to make things on the web. When I am not making things on the web, I am usually found spending time with my wife and daughter, watching sports, or reading about better ways of making things on the web. Occasionally I tweet about all of these things, as you can see below.

    http://twitter.com/jeffreytierney
  • Sri Viswanathan Systems Administrator

    Imported from India not too long ago, loves pizza and travelling. Hates beans and the heat. Meant to be a polar bear, accidentally inherited human genes. Happens to love computers. And all things digital. Wants to one day drive through every country in the world.

  • Jamie Weitzen Account Manager

    Half Egyptian, hailing from a small town in southern California: Del Mar. She recently discovered that being a Lakers fan is one of the worst offenses one can commit in New York City. Likes: red wine, hashtags, Twix. Dislikes: red peppers, long URLs, people who hate fun.

  • Meghan Wherrity

    Account Manager for bitly Enterprise. Hopes to play a game of pick-up basketball one day.

Contributors

  • John Borthwick
  • Neil Wehrle
  • Jason Morrow

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