Employees

The Team

Kord Campbell – Founder and CEO

Kord is an experienced entrepreneur who’s skills range from business planning and development to marketing, project planning, technology assessment, clustered and scalable server architectures, UI design, server administration, and various search engine technologies.

Over the past 10 years, Kord has founded several software companies including the revolutionary distributed web crawler, Grub, which he sold to LookSmart in 2003. A sysadmin and coder hybrid, he cut his teeth in the ISP industry back in the late 90s, and ended up owning and operating Oklahoma’s third largest ISP.

Yearning for the companionship of fellow geeks, he packed up the family and moved to the Bay Area in 2007. For the past several years he served as Chief Evangelist at Splunk where he was responsible organizing the first ever Dev Camp, producing developer videos, authoring several (in)famous AJAX based “cool cams”, and doing technical closing on some massive deals such as Mashery and SalesForce.

Kord’s interests include his wife and kids, R/C planes, motorcycles, hitting the lake, snowboarding, getting greasy under a car, and bit-hacking hardware. Kord lives with his wife and kids in Orinda, California. You can follow Kord on Twitter.

Raffael Marty – Founder and COO

Raffael is a seasoned IT security professional with a passion for data analysis and visualization. During his past employments he was involved in all aspects of software development.

At Cylink, he developed crypto software and management software for one of the first VPN appliances to enter the market. At ArcSight, a security information management (SIEM) company, he managed the solutions team and helped Fortune 500 companies solve their log management challenges and compliance issues. As a product manager for both ArcSight and later Splunk, he was the conduit for customer issues, new ideas, and market requirements to the development team.

In the role of the Chief Security Strategist for Splunk, Raffy was instrumental in Splunk’s security go to market strategy. Involved in all aspects of the security use-cases, he helped close a number of Splunk’s largest deals, drove adoption of the security use-cases, and acquired a number of OEM partners.

A security geek at heart, Raffy spends a ton of time analyzing and visualizing logs. To help visualize the data, he co-wrote the AfterGlow visualization tool and started DAVIX, a visualization live CD. A cummulation of his work he published in his book, Applied Security Visualization. Along with the secviz portal, these are the primary resources for information related to security visualization.

Raffy loves public speaking, and presents regularly at security and hacker conferences around the world. He was the founding member of the common event expression (CEE) standard that is concerned with standardizing machine interoperability. In his spare time, Raffy surfs the California waves and finds peace in meditation. Raffy lives in San Francisco. You can follow Raffy on Twitter.

Jon Gifford – Founder and CTO

Jon was a co-founder of Minimal Loop, and has consulted for a number of Internet companies, primarily on search products. In the past he has been:

* VP of Engineering at Scout Labs, and co-Architect of the search platform.
* Architect for the Technorati search platform, a high performance near-real-time blog search engine.
* Director of Search, Principal Architect, and Director of Technology (Live!) at LookSmart Ltd (3 of many roles). Most of his work at LookSmart was focussed around search, with some work on community based products, and other (non-search) core infrastructure.
* Architect for the crew scheduling systems at TPG in Melbourne, Australia, using LP optimization combined with an expert system to assign crews for several major airlines.

Jon has over 10 years of search experience, over 20 years of software development experience, and has been playing with computers for nearly 30 years. He holds a BSc (1st class honours) in Computer Science from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand, 82-86), and has an incomplete MSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Melbourne (Australia, 91-92).

Hoover – Chief Chopper

Hoover is a seasoned logging expert, and has been working in the log industry his entire life. Hoover serves as the Loggly mascot, and has a great dislike of ponies.