JOSH KELLER

Josh Keller is a graphic designer and journalist living in Berkeley, Calif. He has been designing and building websites for nearly a decade, including work for organizations like Cisco Systems, Craigslist, Monsoon Company, and UC Berkeley. His specialties include graphic and interface design and clean, consistent XHTML/CSS. As a journalist, he has covered national politics for The Chronicle of Higher Education, immigration and cattle auctions for The Anniston Star (Ala.), and profiled various weird and essential Berkeley figures for The Daily Californian.

He is a rabid chess player, an ‘extreme’ omnivore, and his love for typography has been compared to an incurable disease. He draws inspiration from the likes of David Lance Goines, Tom Waits, Edward Tufte, and many others. Josh’s attempts to document every restaurant in the Bay Area were severely compromised last year, when he calculated that he would need to eat out four meals a day for a minimum of five years. He remains, as ever, undaunted.

DAVID FABER

Hailing all the way from the streets of suburban Baltimore, Maryland, David Faber is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley, where he spent four enlightening years studying the vastly disparate, yet pleasantly overlapping topics of computers, music and brains. His experiences at Berkeley culminated in the receipt of a very expensive piece of paper, and an ample amount of intangible skills and knowledge in a range of fields. Specifically, when David wasn't busy being a rockstar, he was flexing his geek muscles by studying machine learning and modern artificial intelligence techniques, constantly trying to understand how to apply the intuition gained from studying neural and cognitive processes to computational problems.

Of course in the process, he also became quite proficient at general purpose programming techniques. Always an abstract thinker, the process of architecting a concise conceptual representation of a problem came quite naturally to David, and he found he also greatly enjoyed this process. It became clear that he could apply this skill to many real world problems, and potentially save the world from war and disease in the process. It also became clear that playing the guitar is generally not lucrative. So in his spare time, David got himself up to date with modern, agile web technologies and landed a job with another Bay Area development firm called Extrabreit where he had the chance to gain the one thing you just can't seem to learn from Google: real world experience.

Today, David is the lead programmer, DBA, sysadmin, and kung-fu master of Keller & Faber, and also continues to work and learn with Extrabreit.