Cole Krumbholz is a full-stack engineer, entrepreneur and founder of Backlift.com, the back-end service for front-end developers. Previously he built tabletop displays at the Electronic Visualization Lab, designed user interfaces for air traffic controllers, and was the 2011 SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies Chair. He is passionate about design, visualization and user experience, and wants to help other like-minded folks avoid boring stuff like databases and servers.