Mashery co-founder and Chief Architect Clay Loveless has been programming online applications since 1995. As Senior Software Engineer at Feedster, he played a key role in API and application development for Feedster partners. Prior to his work at Feedster, Clay served as Vice President of Technology for Eruptor Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based entertainment production company.
Clay also led the enterprise web application consulting firm Killersoft, and in the early days of the Web, he developed frontend code for America Online. He has written numerous articles devoted to PHP development, and was responsible for four chapters in the PHP Cookbook, 2nd Edition (2006) from O'Reilly. Clay holds a BA from New York University's Gallatin Division.