Heat Seek NYC

Core Team

Brendan Crowley

Intern

Brendan is a Senior at Georgetown University studying Political Economy and Business Administration. His interest in social justice, urban development, and the law, led him to an internship with Heat Seek. He hopes to continue advocating for the underserved after he graduates.

Harold Cooper

Hardware Engineering

Harold studied mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering at MIT before coming to New York. He now works at Ringly, building software that talks to smart jewelry. He used to build guitar pedals as a hobby, but is now using those skills for civic good instead of musical evil, building Heat Seek's sensor systems.

Jesse Fish

Data Science

Jesse is a data scientist and software engineer who has worked for a number of tech startups in both New York City and Boston. A native of Maine, he received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science while studying in Canada and believes that organizations and companies like Heat Seek NYC can make a profound and positive impact on our world through the use of innovative technology and data analysis. He is strongly committed to Heat Seek's mission and excited to be part of a brilliant and passionate team.

Noelle Francois

Executive Director

Noelle is a graduate student at NYU Wagner School where she studies non-profit management. She has been working in the non-profit sector for years and has a background in social justice.

Emily Fuhrman

Data Visualization

Emily is a freelance data visualizer based in Brooklyn, New York.

Tom Hunter

Marketing & Business Development

Tom has an eclectic background ranging from hedge fund analyst to parade mascot. He joins Heat Seek NYC to help further our mission of keeping the heat on in NYC and to help pioneer the algorithmic advocacy movement.

William Jeffries

Full Stack Engineering

William is a web developer with a passion for social justice. He's a rubyist, a yogi, and a super friendly person. He has been on the project since the beginning and is always ready to answer technical questions from any area of the project, or just about why it is such important work.

Doyun Kim

Circuit Design

Doyun is a graduate student at Columbia University. He's doing research on low power digital circuits. He is cheating on his research with heat seek nyc team, contributing to the hardware design. :) He is also interested in embedded systems, mobile app development and anything creative.

Daniel Kronovet

Industrial Design

A classmate of Tristan and William's at the Flatiron School, Daniel joined up as the Hardware Lead shortly after the founders decided to take the project to the BigApps. Currently a software engineer at ParagonMeasure, Daniel is excited about helping build the sensor network which drives Heat Seek.

Rachel Pick

Social Media

Rachel is a samurai without a master, a freelance jack-of-all-trades with an interest in further pursuing digital and social media marketing. She is incredibly excited to join such a smart and talented group of people and help augment their social media reach.

Tristan Siegel

Full Stack Engineering

From the project's beginning Tristan's been in charge of user experience as well as sharing back-end developing duties with William. He has been with the project since its inception at the Flatiron School, and got the project its first user.

Bryan Sim

Data Science

Bryan is a social psychology graduate student at NYU. He is a fan of open science, works in Python and R, plays the guitar, and likes broccoli. His goal is to help people make better decisions using data, and he thinks Ruby is the cutest programming language. In his free time, he asks people on the internet stupid questions like whether dinosaurs have souls.

Contributors

Andrea Acevedo

Design

Andrea comes from the public service design world working previously at the City of Boston branding SMEs and initiatives and more recently at Participle where she designed new services that tackled social issues in the UK. She was fortunate to stumble upon Heat Seek’s co-founders at the Big Apps launch and will be working on the design of the app and helping out on the UX.

Jarryd Hammel

Business Development

Jarryd comes to Heat Seek NYC with several years of experience as a corporate finance advisor. He is currently pursuing his MBA at the Wharton School. As Biz Dev Lead, Jarryd is focused on refining Heat Seek NYC's message and building the community and organizational ties we need to maximize our social impact.

Katie Hoffman

Front-End

Katie is a software engineer and comedian, and contributes to the user experience design and implementation of Heat Seek.

Michael Hoffman

Full Stack

Michael is a software engineer and product manager who started writing code after dropping out of a philosophy PhD program. He found Heat Seek NYC through Kickstarter, and, after pledging, he decided to see how else he could contribute to this amazing project. He enjoys cooking, building twitterbots, and fantasy baseball, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and baby daughter.

Megan Houston

Law

Megan has a background in sustainable development and environmental law. After graduating from the University of Florida with a B. Design, she worked for an architecture firm as a project manager and designer. In 2008, she moved to New York to earn an M.S. in Urban Environmental Systems Management from Pratt Institute. Since then, Megan has analyzed energy efficiency financing programs, tracked building metrics, and reported on green building barriers. During law School, Megan interned for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Enterprise Community Partners, and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A. She graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2013 and began a legal fellowship with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection.

Ding Li

Data Science

Ding loves data. As a data scientist and founder of Smart Data Net, he develops business intelligence tools to help users stay on top of key business indicators with real-time data. Ding started his career at the UPenn School of Medicine and has help develop business intelligence systems for organizations such as the American Institute of Physics, NBC, Estee Lauder, and Adobe. Ding holds one Masters degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science from UPenn and a Second Masters in Polymer Chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. In his spare time, Ding enjoys programming animations and creating digital art with his two daughters.

Ethan Ozelius

Front-End

As Lead Front-end developer, Ethan works with a great team of designers and developers, to build an efficient website for all users.

Caroline Senatore

Goverment Relations

As part of the Heat Seek NYC team Caroline works to establish relationships with local government agencies and elected officials who can help Heat Seek NYC make New York City a warmer, safer place to live. Caroline is currently pursuing a graduate degree in public policy analysis and public finance at NYU Wagner.