Michael Smith

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:40:41 -0400

Position: Lead Applications Developer — Thrillist

B.P.N.: $160,000-$180,000

Mr. Smith and Thrillist CTO Mark O’Neill “would be major gets for any tech company because they can literally build ANYTHING on any platform,” a source told Betabeat. Certainly, poaching a member of the Thrillist tech team would be a major coup, as the Thrillist office is notoriously jubilant and the company treats its tech team like precious, headphoned geniuses. “We’re geeks, and we require particular care and feeding,” Mr. O’Neill told IT Insider Online.

But Mr. Smith in particular, who describes himself as a “focused PHP/MySQL programmer with interests in Ruby, Python, Objective-C and CoreData,” is a catch, we're told. A front and back end web developer with a varied resume and a hungry curiosity for tech knowledge, the apps developer still fields calls to Rackspace and works overtime without complaint. Perhaps he's still "interested in new projects and exciting opportunities, especially in the startup arena," as he says on his LinkedIn. But if you want to poach this wizard, be prepared for a fight: Thrillist was extremely not-thrilled to get wind of his inclusion on the Poachables list.

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