May 4th, 2012 my college experience came to an end. It was an incredibly fun ride (who doesn’t enjoy college?), but little did I know the real fun and excitement was about to begin. After a couple of interviews, a few phone calls and a short internship, I was honored to be invited to join the Mightybell team by founder Gina Bianchini. And on July 9th, 2012 I officially became a Software Engineer at Mightybell and started the first day of my professional career.

It’s barely been nine months and already I’ve done so much. I have worn several hats beyond developer and learned more about applications, web development and business to suffice for a few years of education. There is plenty to write about, and I assure you that I will. For now though, I want to give a brief overview of Mightybell and our goals.

Mightybell was founded by Gina Bianchini in late 2010. It has gone through a couple iterations, starting off with v1 called Mightybell Steps. Currently, Mightybell has transformed into a group platform creating the first truly connected network of intimate communities. Here is an excerpt from our blog:

Our mission at Mightybell is to bring people together in small, intimate communities around their interests, passions and goals. We believe at the heart of intimate communities is the “us” that happens with shared experiences.

Inspired by this mission, we have been tirelessly building and refining our product to be the best out there for facilitating intimate communities and very soon, networks of communities. We recently partnered with Lean In to power Lean In Circles via Mightybell. So far we have seen outstanding success and growth of Lean In, as well as with groups using Lean In Circles on Mightybell. It has been an awesome and rewarding experience thus far, and with our upcoming feature releases things are going to start to get very interesting, very quickly. I’m excited to continue working with the rest of the talented team at Mightybell: Matteo Melani, Addison Brickey and Mike Thompson, as we continue to iterate and build upon our platform.