Vision
We want to make it super easy for people to add the realtime web to their apps.
The Team
Max Williams (Co-Founder, CEO)
Max's background is in managing the development company New Bamboo, which he has done alongside Damien for the past 5 years. He has a wealth of experience in identifying new technologies, and getting projects delivered.
His role in Pusher is in overseeing the product development, and being the voice of the company on Twitter and the blog. This also means that he is often the first support-monkey you will talk to!
Damien Tanner (Co-Founder)
Damien has similar experience to Max as co-founder of New Bamboo and a developer/designer hybrid.
His core aim working alongside Max is to drive the creation of valuable partnerships as well as coordinating Pusher's marketing campaigns. If you're at a tech conference, look out for him in the crowd!
Martyn "Jazzman" Loughran - CTO
Martyn Loughran heads up the technical side of Pusher. He has had an instrumental role in designing the scalable system we have today.
Previous experience comes from being a technical lead in large asynchronous and scalable web systems. Martyn is passionate about evented programming and speaks and blogs about this topic when he has a spare moment.
Phil Leggetter - Developer Evangelist
Phil has been working with realtime technologies for over 10 years and has a true passion for the realtime web and customer service.
His focus at Pusher is to engage and work with Pusher customers to make using our realtime service as easy as possible, and to continue to help others understand and use realtime technologies.
Mary Rose Cook - Engineer
Mary hacks, makes music and does political things. Recently, she released Pistol Slut, a JavaScript game, and 10997, an EP.
Daniel Waterworth - Engineer
Daniel is working on making Pusher even faster and even more scalable.
He has a keen interest in distributed systems and has a reputation for tackling difficult problems.
History
Pusher is a fast growing company, originally incubated in the leading Ruby development company New Bamboo.
When WebSockets were announced as part of the HTML5 specification at the end of 2009, we knew that they were going to play a fundamental role in the future of the web and were keen to jump on board.
Investors
Pusher is backed by a collection of highly respected investors including Passion Capital, the Heroku founders and Bill Lee.
Contact Us
Please get in touch if you fancy a chat
- Email (General): info@pusher.com
- Email (Tech Support): support@pusher.com
- Telephone: +1-415-633-4337
- Head Office (UK): Pusher, 1-11 Baches St, N1 6DL, London, UK
Press
If you'd like to use our logo to promote Pusher on your site, you can download PNG, EPS and PSD versions here: pusher-logos.zip
You can also use the following marketing blurb:
Pusher is a hosted service for quickly and easily adding realtime features into web and mobile applications. We're used for all sorts of features such as notifications, game movements, chat, live data feeds and much more. Our aim is to take away the headache of configuring realtime infrastructure so that developers can concentrate on making awesome stuff.