Founded by Aaron Patzer, formerly the founder and CEO of Mint.com (sold to Intuit in 2009 for $172m), then VP of Product of Intuit, and Jean Sini, VP of Data Engineering & Mobile at Mint, then CTO at One Kings Lane, Fountain is a mobile app (iOS only for now) that connects you to an expert over video chat – in five minutes or less! It’s simple: You ask a question in plain English, our algorithms understand both the question and the skills needed to answer it.
Roles
Lead Web Developer / Designer
Aug 2014 – Jan 2016
Led the UX/UI design and frontend engineering of multiple new products including a messaging and video call web app for live expert advice that was embeddable in any web page.
Worked closely with the Customer Support team to design and deliver an internal web app for understanding and assisting any user issues.
Designed the frontend architecture and established coding and testing standards that enabled the rapid development and iteration of the companies first product.
Owned the creation of the company’s blog, a key strategic piece of the company’s marketing efforts.