"This is the only place to be during the tournament," said Laurie Moss, a Denver software architect who has made the pilgrimage here for 13 years to bet on college games.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, who has been the most influential engineer at the company since Gates retired from executive management, describes the process under way as a return to the computing experience of his youth, in the 1970s, when folks shared time on computers and the network reigned supreme.
The latest to leave is Chris Bissell, MySpace's Chief Software Architect, who has been with the company for over four years.
In a way, these tier-connecting, bridge-building software architects — who are likely experts in only one or a couple of tiers — are less full stack developer and much more full stack integrator.
"Most merchants now can process both chip and PIN and magnetic swipe cards," noted Tracy Myers, a software architect in Beijing who frequently travels to Europe for work.
Jo Jaquinta, a software architect at IBM, who's made a jokes skill and a multi-player game, is trying to monetize his work via in-app purchases and commercials run between jokes.
Andrey Grehov (born Andriy Gryekhov) is a former HuffPost engineer, who is now working at INTURN as a Software Architect.
The two founders have first-class Silicon Valley pedigrees with CEO Karthik Rau coming from Delphix and VMware and CTO Phillip Liu, who spent 4 years working at Facebook as a software architect.
In 2006, Roy moved to Atlanta, where he worked as a software architect.
Each Sunday, Kevin Gary, a software architect, gathers with other members of his fantasy football league at his house in Phoenix.
