Kip Holcomb

I can easily recall the first time our family connected to the web and started surfing our first few websites. Like everyone else felt, I was simply amazed at the potential that the Internet showed. I became obsessed with the idea of reaching an unlimited number of people on a worldwide scale, and quickly began learning how to make websites.

Career

After dabbling with small websites for friends and internet-gaming groups I played with, I eventually got into database-backed applications and pursued a career in web development directly after graduating high school. Moving from a five-thousand person town in rural New Jersey out to Santa Barbara, CA was unreal. My first two jobs (which I held for five and two years, respectively) put me under the wing of some very experienced application developers, some of who later moved on to work for giants Microsoft and Google. Needless to say, I feel like my on-the-job learning was the best I could have hoped for.

Over several years, I had worked on some side projects for Michael, and was very excited to accept his offer of working for Ameravant full-time. My background is in Classic ASP and MS-SQL server web application development. However, over the last couple years I have taken an intense interest in Ruby on Rails, which I use nearly exclusively today.

Personal life

I am an avid Apple fan, and will stereotypically try to convert any Windows user I can. When I'm not sitting at a desk or couch working on your website, I'll probably be rock climbing, riding my motorcycle in the canyons or embarrassing my friends in public.