As a backend software developer on CC's Product team, Alden strives to build the infrastructure that will power a rich ecosystem of applications on top of the digital commons.
Prior to joining Creative Commons, Alden developed and operated a real-time market risk management system used by equity derivatives traders at Deutsche Bank. He also has experience working in the ad-tech industry and contributing to free software. Alden currently lives in New York City, where he spends much of his time cycling and developing open source software.
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The Creative Commons Catalog Application Programming Interface (CC Catalog API) gives developers the ability to create custom applications that utilize CC Search, a rich collection of 330 million and counting openly licensed images. We have spent the last two years gathering this data from a diverse set of 28 sources, ranging from curated collections assembled … Read More “Announcing the CC Catalog API, Version 1.0”
