Hello, world. My name is Geoff Pado, and as you may have gathered from the site header, I'm an indie Mac and iOS developer. I'm also a student at the University of Missouri, at least for the time being.
I've been writing apps for the Mac since autumn of 2003. I started writing simple apps to run card games, or track gift lists, and formed the name "Elgebar Studios" to gather donations. After a period of time making these simple apps, I partnered with designer Ollie Wagner to create some more substantial offerings. Fruits of this partnership include the apps Misu and Blitz.
When the iPhone development SDK came out in 2008, I immediately hopped on the bandwagon, and started working on iPhone apps. Specifically, I worked on an app for local news with the University's Journalism School, which was in the App Store on launch day. About 3 weeks into the opening of the App Store, Ollie and I released Kineo, our best-selling application to date. With the sales of that, we formed the company Cocoatype, LLC, which now manages all the apps I've worked on.
After that, I partnered with Stone Studios to release the applications SoundBite and MobileMix. Since that time, I've also released the application Proximity as a solo venture.
I've been a member of the Mac developer community for as long as I've been developing, starting in places like the MacSB mailing list and IRC channels, and moving on to conferences and Twitter. I've attended Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference a total of three times, and made it to every single iteration of C4, and now its spiritual successor—SecondConf.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm also a student at the University of Missouri. While I'm technically an Information Technology major, I actually spend a large part of my time in the Reynolds Journalism Institute working on various mobile, web, and other technologies. I'll be graduating from the University in Summer 2011. I graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor's of Science in Information Technology in December 2011.
I've got quite a few extra-curricular projects going on at school, too. I run the local chapter of CocoaHeads, and I'm working on some fairly awesome new ventures with other people I've met through the University. Stay tuned!