Geekli.st, the social network for developers, is based in San Diego, but its Director of Operations is firmly planted in Philadelphia.
“Our founder [Reuben Katz] asked me to move to San Diego,” said Jedi Weller, a 2012 Drexel graduate. But Weller bought a house in University City and loves Philly.
“I’m never leaving,” he told us at a recent Open Access Philly meeting at Benjamin’s Desk.
Weller, a former software engineer at Malvern-based Unisys, started at Geekli.st in November and works out of Kensington’s Impact Hub when he’s in town. He’s helping to coordinate #hack4good, the company’s socially-minded international hackathon series. Register for the #hack4good Philadelphia at Impact Hub on Feb. 7 – Feb. 9 here.
Geekli.st founder Reuben Katz also has strong Philly ties: he grew up in Wyncote and Elkins Park, graduated from Cheltenham High School and founded an online Spanish bookstore in Philly that he sold in 2002. Katz “has a passion for La Colombe coffee, Philly Pretzels, Pat’s (not Geno’s) and Rita’s Water Ice,” he said in an email.
