Justin Alcon

Software Engineer, Blip.tv

Justin Alcon is a Software Developer at blip.tv, the online media company that hosts, distributes, and monetizes the best original TV shows of the Web.
 
Blip.tv is the next generation television network, with more than 48,000 independently produced Web shows attracting 81 million video views a month.  Blip distributes more than 2.4 million episodes across the video Internet and to television screens across the country.   Advertisers like Johnson & Johnson, Warner Brothers and Toyota advertise with blip.tv, and the company shares revenues 50/50 with show creators.
 
At blip.tv Justin writes software for all aspects of the business, participates in events with content creators, media partners and advertisers, and occasionally throws (stuffed) monkeys at other developers.
 
Before blip.tv, Justin held a series of different jobs while in college at Tulane University and the University of North Carolina, including flipping burgers.  Justin’s ancestors came to the United States from China with P.T. Barnum's traveling show and settled in Mt. Airy, NC in the mid 1800's.  Justin owns an impressive collection of T-shirts and is afraid of no language.