Social Gold: Founded and led by ex-Amazon veterans, Social Gold is a developer platform for enabling a virtual economy withing an online game, application or community. Developers can use Social Gold API to create their own currency, monetize it through Social Gold in-app payments, and manage and grow it using the best-of-class virtual economy analytics provided by Social Gold.
Reza is an 8 year veteran of Amazon.com building complex distributed systems. He led Amazon.com’s customer order workflow team and built some of the most high-throughput workflow systems online today. Reza last worked on defining and building Amazon’s Mechanical Turk product, as well as hired and led the engineering teams.
Vikas spent several years at Amazon.com leading the Payments groups and Web services products – building one of the busiest transaction processing systems in the world. In 2004 Vikas co-founded the Amazon.com’s India office in Bangalore, and hired and led the engineering teams. Vikas is also the lead inventor of Amazon’s Flexible Payment service.
Catch the Best is a job applicant tracking system for people who have other things to do with their lives besides hiring. Rails Kits is a collection of ready-made components that Rails developers can use as a starting point for their applications.
Ben is a tech entrepreneur whose passion is building web applications that people actually use. He enjoys doing startups on the side, such as Catch the Best and Rails Kits, and he enjoys helping others turn their ideas into reality.
Slides: http://seattletechstartups.com/docs/sts_payments_and_fraud.pdf