Randy started at Patch in February '08 and built out the platform and engineering team, which is focused around agile development practices. He still tries to spend some time coding, but not as much anymore because of managerial responsibilities combined with the high quality of the team he's hired. He's currently focused on how to set up Patch for massive scale on the technical side.

Randy was at a couple startups before Patch, and before that he was at Google for five years, doing many different things but finally managing a development team focused on global sales & finance reporting and analysis. He holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a BA in English Literature and History.

Randy's new site, Taxihack, recently won second prize in the NYC BigApps contest, which encourages developers to use newly public city datasets.