Michael A. White

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I am a computer programmer, entrepreneur, and genealogist.

I co-founded GetchaBooks.com, a course-based textbook price comparison website that scraped college bookstore chain websites on demand, from 2010 to 2012. I wrote essentially the entire backend. We open sourced our PHP/MySQL codebase. See screenshots and press (NYT, TechCrunch).

From 2012 to 2014, I worked at Dimagi, a mobile health data collection company with an innovative web-based application building, case management and reporting product.

From 2015 to 2016, I worked at Merck.

In 2018, I founded the genealogy hosting website MyGEDCOMs, but as far as I know it went offline. It may be coming back eventually.

I have a B.S. in Computer Science from Tufts University.