DayBackers
DayBack is built by SeedCode; meet the team
Our award winning calendar helps developers add sophisticated scheduling interfaces to their projects. We’re taking this 10 years of calendar experience and launching DayBack for a wider audience, including integrations with Salesforce and Google Calendar.
John Sindelar
CEO
John wrote SeedCode’s first calendar apps beginning in 2003 and helped usher in a new way of building add-ons for Apple’s FileMaker platform, winning several awards and co-founding PauseOnError to help developers think about simple, self-documenting apps that customers could extend on their own.
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John is a surfer, kayaker, and trail runner who’d been a painter and sculptor before getting into software and realizing that coding scratches the same itch. So does building teams, it turns out.
Jason Young
Lead - backend
Prior to joining SeedCode, Jason built large scheduling systems for manufacturing (and collaborated with John on some of the early calendar code) before building a series of SeedCode apps including the award winning SQLexplorer.
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A leader in the FileMaker community and a featured speaker at DevCon and PauseOnError, Jason is now building the integrations between DayBack and other sources including connections to FileMaker, Google, and Salesforce. His connector for FileMaker Server has been released as the open source project fmxj, creating a lightweight wrapper for FileMaker Custom Web Publishing designed for use in JavaScript applications.
Bringing all these sources into one view lets you create and share very specific calendars without those getting lost or becoming meaningless out of context.
Tanner Ellen
Lead - frontend
Tanner built an in-house ecommerce platform before coming to SeedCode where he created SeedCode’s first web apps, including the chat and maps interfaces that broke new ground using JavaScript front ends in FileMaker apps.
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He now does most of the frontend work on DayBack and the performance tuning that comes with running a client-side app. He’s currently taking some of the early prototypes we made for DayBack’s long-range views and bringing them into the new faster DayBack platform he began shipping at the end of 2014.
These long-range views should let us see gaps in our schedules that get hidden in the traditional 30-day grid: we know that we’re getting there when you see surprising things about the schedules you’re looking at every day.
Daniel Wheelon
Lead - custom projects
Dan had been building custom apps and helping customers modify DayBack before joining SeedCode. He’s now writing mods to help customers augment and extend the calendar, often tie DayBack into their other apps.
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He is also expanding our docs, and while we want DayBack to be as self-evident as possible, sometimes it’s easier for customers to just pick up the phone and ask us about it.
KC Embrey
Lead - support
KC was building web apps and games while working in IT support. KC’s making sure customers are able to implement their workflows in DayBack and that we’re hearing customers correctly when they ask to take DayBack further.
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KC built his mountain bike out of bamboo and is constantly tinkering with mods to DayBack. His tinkering has recently resulted in two major blog posts about how to best leverage the new cURL and JSON features in FileMaker 16
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DayBack is hiring
SeedCode is looking for a couple of new people to join the team. We’re building things in FileMaker, JavaScript, and Salesforce. And we’re helping our customers rethink their schedules and take their day back. If you can get behind that, we’re hiring.
Aside from the candids above, most photos and video on the site are courtesy of Justin Coffey who runs a blog on surfing the Pacific Northwest. Justin shares John’s fetish for surf vans and this was our introduction to his blog. (The original clip from our home page can be found here.) Justin is also a partner at Kook Stack, which happens to be one of the greatest company names ever.
Sign-in photo of the swell at Scorpion Bay by Teddi Dean.
The footer image is by Chiyoko Yoshida from her ranch in New Mexico.