mcslee

House-Heads was formed in 2008 with Roddy Lindsay and Atish Mehta. We produce unique events that deliver high quality underground electronic music in a context focused explicitly on community and dance.

Since 2008 I have been developing and focusing my aesthetic through DJing. I play techno and house music under my given name, releasing mixes at soundcloud.com/mcslee. I have recently begun to re-engage with original music production.

In the early 2000s I was focused on producing original electronic music, eventually settling on the progressive house genre. These productions were released under the alias Palivacinni.

In 2010 I began working on custom-programmed animated LED displays. I presented my first work, Indirection, at the Burning Man festival. I am currently exploring additional projects.

I have been employed by Facebook since 2006, working across roles in software engineering and product management with a recurring focus on mobile. An available résumé of my Facebook career documents my contributions in greater detail.

I was one of the founding authors of the Apache Thrift project. I designed the IDL and wrote the original code generator and library implementations for C++, Java, Python, and PHP. The project was open-sourced in 2007.

Elation EMR seeks to dramatically improve medical care by leveraging technology to facilitate a more powerful interaction between physician and patient. I have been an advisor since 2010.

Dojo empowers individuals to pursue paths of personal growth towards mastery via a structured approach to progress and social support. I have been an advisor since 2011.

I am of the general opinion that the human experience is primarily a function of a brain-driven consciousness, with a tendency towards existential and relativistic viewpoints. Without making any strong claims as to the origin or underlying nature of this existence, I very roughly identify with the pantheistic notion that the concept of God is essentially a reference to the beautiful state of the universe in its entirety.

Given that, I feel the best thing we can do with our time here is attempt to better understand the potential our minds make available to us through playful exploration. I aim my technological pursuits toward the creation of positive emotional experiences, and through art I enjoy exploring the nature of perception. I am particularly fascinated by the way music can directly impact mood and memory formation. Visually, I enjoy toying with the thresholds at which we begin to perceive gradual shifts in hue and shape as patterned motion.

Some highly recommended reading generally relating to these topics:

• Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

This is all succinctly and beautifully expressed by Björk and Chris Cunningham's All is Full of Love.