Founded by Dan Wood and Terrence Talbot, Karelia Software is a distributed team of Macintosh software developers dedicated to handcrafting Macintosh software of which we can be proud. Our goal is a simple one: to develop simple, elegant, and intuitive Macintosh software that fills a need in the Mac community. Our first product, Watson®, was a groundbreaking web utility, and was the winner of both a MacWorld "Eddy" and the Apple Design Award for "Most Innovative Application."
Our most recent product is Sandvox®, a pioneering website development application, which won the runner-up prize for the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X User Experience. We developed Sandvox after hearing from friends and family--all too often--that creating a website was just too difficult or time-intensive using products already on the market.
Meet Karelia's creative team:
Dan Wood
A native of California now based in the San Francisco Bay area, Dan Wood is the father of two children, prefers bicycles to cars, and is passionately active in progressive politics at local and national levels. His commitments to simplicity, sustainability, and fairness inform his software development philosophy, as does his belief that communication—and making communication easier for more people—is vital to a more informed, active, and productive society.
Before forming Karelia Software in 2001, Dan honed his software development skills in several contexts, including “classic” Macintosh and Java development at Bear River Associates and Electronic Arts.
Dan codes by day, but in the evening, he cranks up the Ulrich Schnauss music and works on marketing and other administrative tasks for Karelia. He writes a blog about marketing for "indie" Mac developers in a corner of this website.
Dan can be found on twitter: @danwood.
Terrence Talbot
Terrence anchors Karelia's southern California operations and does not miss the Chicago winters of his youth. Before creating Sandvox, Terrence developed several of Watson's tool modules, including Epicurious. Beyond Karelia, Terrence has developed software architectures and led application development teams in the financial management, biotechnology, and software industries.
In addition to his engineering and architecting talents, Terrence is an attorney specializing in issues related to technology and to constitutional law. He has also served as a technical advisor and editor on several high-level programming books, and as an advisor on web site development to start-ups and non-profit organizations, including Slow Food Los Angeles.
Terrence can be found on twitter: @talbchat.
Mike Abdullah
Handling UK operations is Mike. He recently graduated from Reading University with a first-class honours in Integrated Engineering and was fortunate enough to fall into a job at Karelia. He originally authored the Sandvox documentation, but has since moved onto coding the Sandvox application itself. Mike does not know how he would cope in a world without Cocoa (both kinds).
Mike would also like to consider himself a reasonably accomplished musician (he may be wrong, that's up to you). Having performed with a number of bands and orchestras over the years on both trumpet and percussion, he is currently the drummer in Reading-based band Sixty Watt Bayonets.
Mike can be found on twitter: @mikeabdullah.
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