Matthew Dierker

See me featured in a NEW YORK TIMES article for krankCall!!

Also, check out my iD Tech DO SOMETHING BIG interview!

In 2007, teen author Neal Shusterman came to my middle school to discuss his books. I noted that he had a website and went that night to check it out. I was just getting into web development, particularly in the area of online discussion forums, so I asked if I could create forums for his site. He accepted my offer and that has since grown into a paid webmaster position launching my career in website creation. His forums are still active at http://storyman.com/forums

I also currently ran my school's band website, basketball website, and baseball website, as well as a website for a community organization. At the end of my senior year in high school, I transitioned these organizations into running themselves.

Computer Science
As a kid, I always wanted to be the next Charlie Gibson on Good Morning America. When I reached high school, I started exploring web development and computer science. After much programming outside of school, I took my first programming class and took off from there!

I have extensive programming experience in Java and PHP, as well as the basics of Objective C (and other minor languages). Java is my primary language, and I have programmed in Java well beyond the basic AP cirriculum. In fact, I participated in my high school's contest team, where we spent weekends programming in Java competitions. I have also worked on various PHP applications.

In 2010, I attended the iD Programming Academy at Stanford. There I took an extensive, two week crash course in Objective-C and the learned the nuances of creating iPhone applications. From that camp came my first iPhone apps - A paint program called "GraphiColor" where users draw pictures using only their fingers, and krankCall. krankCall is quite simply an app to change your caller ID. It's literally as easy as putting in your number, the "victim's" number, and the phone number you would like to call as. For example, you could call your co-worker as your boss. Thanks to my work on that, iD Tech chose to feature me on their site, which then landed me in the New York Times.