Neil Mix

Tech Innovator & Startup Advisor

A world-class software engineer with exceptional user experience taste.

Who I am

What I've Done

Others describe me as

  • thoughtful
  • strategic
  • pragmatic
  • approachable
  • wise
  • conscientious
  • solver
  • coach
  • communicator
Interested? let's talk

I'll help you find this,

escape product development traps,

and avoid this.

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My experience affords me the opportunity to independently pursue
what I love doing most:
build technology from the ground up.
no vision too grand, no detail too small.
I advise startups
Ground-floor → IPO experience
Investor perspective
Grounded value system
Supportive communication style
Ideal for:
Companies inception through Series A
Companies considering investment
Non-technical founders
I build things
Business/market/product/tech fusion
Adaptable to any problem
Speed, quality, and impact
Business-first priority
Ideal for:
Uncertainty about technical approach
Simple and low-overhead solutions
Rapid iteration and turnaround
Want to know more? let's talk
Work Experience Project List
Merchant Planet
LinkExchange
Microsoft
This is a list of numerous projects that I have personally built and/or managed. While they cover a wide range of responsibilities, technologies, and capabilities, they all share in common that I was responsible for their completion and release.
  • css-events - the simplest way to add interactivity to a web page
  • simple-html-macro - the simplest way to reuse markup in your web page
  • label printing process automation for industrial safety equipment
  • engineering team turnaround from stalled to 4 major releases in 6 months
  • completion and migration of next-gen web app replacing legacy system
  • realtime sump monitoring and dashboarding system
  • wordle and sudoku solvers (yes I'm that nerdy)
  • dezent - regular-expression-like language for parsing complex and recursive data
  • geography-based trucking company recommendation engine
  • rapid development framework for enterprise applications
  • enterprise inventory management prediction algorithms
  • enterprise inventory management app
  • metabolic muscle health calculator
  • metabolic health management app design
  • festival data import management system
  • general-purpose consumer festival app design
  • athletic performance highlight reel auto-generator
  • Android Wear athletic performance measurement app
  • next-gen flash memory disk driver
  • next-gen kalman filter 3D position tracking algorithm
  • 3D athletic performance visualizer
  • web, iPhone, and Android 3D athletic performance measurement apps
  • next-gen ad server migration
  • radio/digital crossover advertising order management system
  • protocol to connect Pandora iPhone app with car dashboards via bluetooth
  • Pandora desktop application beta
  • Pandora iPad app
  • Pandora iPhone app
  • lightweight JavaScript coroutine library
  • advertising infrastructure for Pandora
  • asych-to-synchronous compiler for JavaScript
  • automated UI test harness for Flash-based Pandora web app
  • Pandora web app
  • enterprise retail pricing management UX
  • enterprise notification and inbox UX
  • infinitely scalable AJAX tabular display widget
  • enterprise app documentation compiler
  • COMET app development library
  • AJAX development framework
  • enterprise messaging latency visualizer
  • enterprise messaging management UX
  • enterprise messaging command-line interface
  • consumer reward web surfing plugin
  • rapid-development ORM library
  • site-agnostic authentication system
  • fraud research tool for payment system
  • e-commerce integration with 3rd-party website builder
  • REST API for e-commerce shopping cart
  • separation-of-concerns HTML templating library
  • platform native database connection library
  • cross-domain integrated authentication system
  • digital asset management UX
  • WYSIWYG business card and stationary designer
  • e-commerce shopping cart and transaction processing
  • PDF application generator
  • online survey form and database

Board Memberships

Winnebago Seed Fund, 2016-
Bovisync, 2017-
Fork Farms, 2021-2024
Liveality, 2015-2023
Allergy Amulet, 2020-2022

Education

University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Music, 1997
Piano Performance major
Computer Science minor

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