About
Welcome to my small corner of the Internet!
I've been blogging here on cantoni.org since July 1999, originally as one of the early beta testers of CityDesk by FogCreek Software, then starting in 2002 with several versions of MovableType Publishing Platform. In early 2014 I switched to WordPress and spent a lot of time learning that platform, customizing it, but also battling spam and hacks. In May 2025 I flipped back to a static site generator 11ty.
Work
I've been a software team leader/manager for many years, having worked in several different industries. I've worked at companies like Palm, Yahoo, Citrix, DataStax and since 2020 have been at Tableau (part of Salesforce) leading several dev teams. For more detail on my career, you can check out my LinkedIn profile.
Side Projects
I have a few side projects such as:
- Scooterlabs - a few online experiments and apps.
- Engineering Tourist - coming soon!
And some that were fun to work on and had some success but are now officially retired:
- Cantoni.mobi - directory of mobile websites; still very popular with older mobile phones and low-bandwidth internet users.
- Tweetfave - free service which sends you Twitter "favorited" tweets to your inbox for reading later.
Volunteer
I've been able to use my experience to improve web and communications for several sports clubs including:
- Silicon Valley Pig Jig - a new fundraising event website which launched in December 2017, leading up to the first annual event in October 2018. The Pig Jig is a country music, BBQ and beer festival which is a fundraiser for NephCure Kidney International.
- Stanford Girls Water Polo - keep WordPress up to date, rolled out new themes, added PayPal support, train and assist club leaders as needed.
- Saratoga Woods Swim Club - legacy Dreamweaver site; since turned over to next leadership team.
- West San Jose NJB Basketball - a new site implemented in WordPress for a youth basketball league; added PayPal support for registration and dues collection; since turned over to next set of board member volunteers.
Contact
The best way to reach me is by email: brian AT cantoni DOT org.
Other places you can find me include:
- Twitter: bcantoni
- Instagram: bcantoni
- LinkedIn: briancantoni
- Github: bcantoni
- Stack Overflow: brianc
- Flickr: cantoni
Brian Cantoni
