About Monorail Technology

Monorail Technology is a software R&D and consulting shop run by Jesse Kriss, applying expertise in information security, appropriate scale technology, and user-focused design.

This site is the home for Monorail's lab notebook, publications, and member community. It's also more than that, though. It's a vision for a way of discussing, developing, and sharing technology that's more participatory, more conversational, more convivial, and with a funding model that's not about market capture, immense scale, or ads.

This is the workshop, in both senses: where things get built, and where a group of people come together to develop and improve ideas, and to create new practices.

Tomorrow's technology, today!

It's more than just a newsletter. Paid subscribers also get access to interactive prototypes–real, working systems that allow you to see what it's like to try out new patterns, approaches, and tools.

About Jesse

I've been building software for humans professionally since 1997. My work has spanned full stack web engineering, user centered design, information visualization, information security, and cloud infrastructure, at companies from 3 to 300,000 people, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Research, Figure 53, the Obama 2012 Tech Team, NASA/JPL, Netflix, and Watershed.

My work has won NASA’s Software of the Year award, IEEE VIS’s Test of Time Award, and a presidential election.

I've given talks about human scale technology, science fiction and design, and I've built a range of serious and non-serious things: tools for artists and scientists, intentionally small scale technology, and digital art.