Harper Reed
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| Born | March 21, 1978 (age 39) |
| Residence | Chicago, IL |
| Education | Cornell College |
| Website | harperreed |
Harper Reed (born March 21, 1978) is the Director of Software Development for PayPal. In 2011, he took the role of CTO for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. From 2005 to 2009, he was the CTO of clothing company Threadless, and from 2012 to 2015, he was the CEO of Modest, Inc.
Besides his claims of technical accomplishments, Reed is known for his punk-rock hair-style. He has subtitled himself as "pretty awesome" and "pretty much one of the coolest guys ever".
According to The Guardian, Reed's "background in crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing ... gives a significant clue to what the Obama team hoped to achieve in 2012".
Reed was born in Greeley, Colorado, where he was raised in a home without a television but with an Apple IIC. Reed served as student-council president at Greeley Central High School. Reed graduated from Cornell College in 2001 with degrees in philosophy and computer science. Reed's first job out of college was as an engineer for World Book Publishing. Reed is an avid reader and currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Hiromi Nakazawa.
Reed served as Chief Technology Officer for Obama for America from April 2011 through the November 2012 election. A central component of that work was Project Narwhal, a centralized database of electoral information. Reed helped build a team of developers from tech companies like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, Orbitz and Threadless. This approach— hiring technology workers from the tech startups rather than the political realm— was novel.
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