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Charles (Chuck) Freedman is a developer platform architect and leader. Director of Developer Evangelism and Outreach at Ribbit, Chuck coded, deployed and promoted Ribbit’s rich communications platform to a community that grew to over 12,000 developers within its first two years.

A graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, Chuck loves engaging developers and has spoken at several conferences on Ribbit and Flash platform technologies. In the past few years he has presented at Adobe MAX, SXSW, FlashForward, MashupCamp, FITC (both in Toronto and Hollywood), Yahoo! Public Hack Day, Where 2.0, Apollo Camp, 360|Flex (Seattle, Atlanta and San Jose), Dreamforce, MIT EmTech and Ribbit’s own Developer Spawn Event. Chuck was invited back to Boston University in April 2007 and proudly conducted a lecture to students and faculty interested in Flash and Flex.

Chuck blogs at both http://www.chuckstar.com/blog and http://developer.ribbit.com.