Bill Lubanovic

Bio

Bill Lubanovic has developed software with UNIX since 1977, GUIs since 1981, databases since 1990, and the Web since 1993. At a startup named Intran in 1982, he developed MetaForm -- one of the first commercial GUIs (before the Mac or Windows), on one of the first graphic workstations. At Northwest Airlines in the early 1990s, he wrote a graphic yield management system that generated millions of dollars in revenue; got the company on the Internet; and wrote its first Internet marketing test. He co-founded an ISP (Tela) in 1994, and a web development company (Mad Scheme) in 1999. Recently, he developed core services and distributed systems with a remote team for a Manhattan startup. Later, he integrating OpenStack services for two supercomputer companies. He now works for the Internet Archive, helping to develop the next-generation Wayback Machine in Python. He enjoys life in the Sangre de Sasquatch mountains of Minnesota with his wonderful wife Mary, children Tom and Karin, and cats Inga, Chester, and Lucy.