Geekin’ It Up With Everyone Else

By Andrew Mattie | December 14, 2007

Hey there GeekEstate Blog readers. My name is Andrew Mattie, and I’m a senior software engineer over at Diverse Solutions. I was recently approached by Drew and asked if I wanted to contribute my knowledge and expertise to the GeekEstate Blog, and after thinking about it for exactly .482 seconds, I realized that I’d be crazy not to accept! I’m honored to have been given the invitation, and through it, I’m truly looking forward to connecting with this side of the greater real estate community a bit more.

For the purposes of sharing my background and fully disclosing my employer, I’ll should tell you a little bit about what I’ve been working on lately. For a bit more than a year now, I have been working on the client-facing portion of our very own mapping MLS IDX solution, dsSearchAgent. Additionally, I’m responsible for working with a myriad of MLS’s across the country to load their data into our system. I’m a coder at heart, and while I’m confident that I can translate the tech stuff I work on into something everyone who reads this blog can understand, I’m always excited to get down into the über-geek details of anything and everything pertaining to what I work on.

Anyway, while we do employ a sales staff just like any other business, I’m hoping that my position as a software engineer, my experience, and my expertise will allow me to contribute a unique perspective to this blog without sounding like I’m trying to pitch any sort of products or services. Also, since the sales department is usually the known mortal enemy of any engineering department in any company, I think you’ll be especially safe from me.

Author's Website: http://www.diversesolutions.com

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One Response to “Geekin’ It Up With Everyone Else”

Michael Price Says:
December 14th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Andrew,
Welcome aboard, we look forward to your contributions. I think your company has an outstanding product and since I’ve had the opportunity to get to know your biz dev guy, Robert Luna, I feel confident you’re backing it up with good support and strong relationships. One of the issues we want to address as an ongoing topic at GEB is IDX (Internet Data Exchange), to that end we will be posting an interview with Robert about that in the near future.

(If you’re an agent or broker with questions about IDX and it’s implementation, leave them here as comments so we can address them in the post.)