Klokie Grossfeld

FileRide

FileRide is a next generation social network that enables people to connect globally through interests in common such as links, online media and even documents on the users own computer.

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• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active

Daniel “Klokie” Grossfeld is a new media activist with 13 years of professional experience architecting, managing, and developing complex database-driven websites, e-commerce, and content management systems for premier international clients. Comfortable developing early-stage start-ups, Klokie is a founding partner of four successful international enterprises within the past decade. With experience managing small fast-paced development teams in New York, London, Paris, and Barcelona, Klokie is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden and frequently collaborates with a diverse international network of highly skilled consultants on a per-project basis.

As founding partner and Chief Technology Officer for the creative studio Surface to Air created in the year 2000 in Paris and New York City and working internationally in the fashion, music, video and art scenes, Klokie has collaborated with respected graphic and audiovisual artists and conceived, directed, and built online systems and dynamic user interfaces for Virgin Records (UK), the United Nations, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA), the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (USA), Stephen King / ABC TV (USA), Circuit de Barcelona (Spain), and recently created AJAX-driven widgets for New York Magazine, Toyota, and the SXSW Music Festival.

Holding degrees in music theory and computer systems engineering with concentration in digital signal processing, he advocates thoughtful standards-based design practices and open-source and object-oriented methodologies, and is conversant in 10 computer and 4 human languages. As a classically trained musician and composer, he has written and recorded over 40 works, with several of his compositions performed at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and MIT’s Killian Hall. He is also a contributing writer for GuitarOne Magazine and LeCool’s webzine in Barcelona.

Current interests and expertise focus on AJAX-enabled Javascript interaction coupled with Semantic web technologies. Ongoing projects include the next-generation social semantic desktop application FileRide and complete system architecture and development for DNA Guide AB, Sweden’s vanguard supplier of home DNA tests, as well as providing consulting services via Swedish technology firm S2A Interactive.