While working full time as a Developer Evangelist at Atlanta-based startup Ionic Security, Gene attends a hackathon almost every weekend. He has attended over 90 hackathons and won prizes at more than 70 of them. He has been written about in the AJC, Huffington Post, Federal Times, and many other places. Gene has made the transition from hackathoner to developer evangelist, frequently giving talks all over the United States about Developer Relations and Open Source Programming