Herb Jellinek
Board Member at Apprture
Seacliff, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHerb Jellinek is a veteran software engineer and inventor with over 10 years of recent experience and a multi-decade legacy dating back to Xerox PARC and the original Java team at Sun. He has led architectures and product teams across consumer electronics, gaming, and mobile — from inventing the XEVENT protocol and shipping Plantronics headset apps to building internal tooling for PlayStation credited on 25+ game titles. As founder of Apprture and multiple startups, he blends hardware, firmware, and Android expertise to create imaging and Bluetooth products, and today serves on the Interlisp.org board preserving programming-language history. Herb’s work spans research, shipping products, and hands-on coding — he’s equally comfortable in Lisp and Java and has a track record of turning experimental ideas into platform-level features. Based in Seacliff, California, he also contributes technical leadership to community media projects like KSQD and leverages Fulbright Specialist experience advising international programs. Quietly, his career shows a pattern of inventing protocols and developer platforms that later become mainstream.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (67)
mopidy10
beans10
internet-radio10
daap10
internet10
spotify10
mpd-client10
chromecast10
mpd10
airplay10
common-lisp10
freebsd10
itunes10
lisp10
linux9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hjellinek/compliance
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:69 pushes, 24 branches, 10 tags in 3 months
definedsecuritycomplianceschemassuite
hjellinek/medley
May 2021 - Oct 2024
The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Other repositories are maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
repositoriesweb-sitemain-repointerlispmedley
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