User:Mespr

Mespr is Michael Sprague, publicly known by this moniker on many popular coding sites.

Michael is an original web veteran. He’s developed and directed products spanning digital micro-transactions and trusted execution networks in the nineties, interactive TV and network video distribution, device identity and social media privacy in the naughts and more recently advertising and open event analysis.

Michael’s career began as a developer and architect for a small but prestigious consulting firm contracted to redefine the global banking system for such clients such as JP Morgan, Citibank and Fidelity. With the advent of the web, Michael joined Wave Systems as systems architect and delivered one of the very first micropayment systems. (Sprague.com had a tip jar in 1997.)

Michael left Wave to work as VP of Services and later President of Wavexpress where he pioneered alternative video distribution and the integration of television with the interactive web. In 2008 Wavexpress delivered the Beijing Olympics to Microsoft Media Center customers in ground-breaking interactive HD. Back at Wave in 2010 Michael devised and delivered Scrambls, a critically acclaimed service for encrypting social media interactions, and Knowd, a service for simplifying web authentication through hardware-backed device identity.

Michael is currently running the open source data platform, Metric Messenger, as well as the censor busting technology behind Samizdat Online.

Michael has been a developer and fan of wikis before they were invented.