Hey. This is Justin Grant. I'm a software product manager in the SF Bay Area who writes code in my spare time.

stuff i'm working on

  • Job Alchemist

    I recently hooked up with Job Alchemist, a very early-stage startup in SF which builds online recruiting solutions and custom job sites like Startuply and RedditJobs. I'm consulting a few days per week with JobAlchemist as a Product Manager (and Developer and Tester and... you get the idea, it's a small company!)

  • Open Source Immersion

    I've been having fun filling gaps in my Open Source knowledge. So far I'm focusing on mySQL and Rails, and JQuery with short detours into Groovy and Python. Highlight so far has been finding (and submitting a fix for) a nasty SQL-injection attack caused by a Unicode-character-handling bug in at least one of mySQL's client libraries.

  • Stack Overflow

    As a product manager, it helps to have basic knowledge of many different technologies. I use answering questions on Stack Overflow as a kind of "Nerd Tourism" to easily learn more about a wide variety of topics. For example: MySQL query optimization, Apache ActiveMQ queue APIs, TCP socket I/O in C++ on Linux, ASP.NET data binding, CSS workarounds for Internet Explorer, HTML screen scraping, cross-platform web frameworks, and more.

  • FOSSfind.com

    Earlier this year I wrote fossfind.com, an open-source project directory mashup to make it easier to quickly find useful open-source projects and screen out noise. Check it out and let me know what you think! In additon to expanding my open-source knowledge, this was my first ASP.NET MVC app, so I learned about both sides of the OSS divide. :-)  It was also a good chance to learn and use JQuery.

  • Bay Area Product Manager Job Finder

    I was so annoyed at irrelevant PM job listings that I wrote a PM job search engine, optimized for one-click removal of jobs or companies I never want to see again! I'll get it posted online if I find time to add authentication so the jobs I toss won't disappear from your list too.

  • agileG.com

    I'm starting to build my first Rails app on agileG: it's an Agile Product Backlog editor. I know there are a bunch of free backlog editors available already (Pivotal Tracker is the best one I know of) but Pivotal doesn't quite work the way I want (especially around editing many backlog items at once). Plus I've been looking for a good excuse to build a Rails app! ;-)

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