I'm Wade Minter, and I live at the intersection of technology, sports, and performance. By day, I'm the founder and CTO of Suggestion Ox, and a product-focused engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building software teams. By night, I'm the Public Address Announcer for the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes and a longtime improv comedian.
The common thread is communication — whether I'm helping an engineering team ship better software, getting 18,000 hockey fans on their feet, or teaching a room full of introverts to think on their feet through improv. I care about building things that connect people, and I'm drawn to problems where technology meets the real world.
I'm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William & Mary, and I'm active in the Bluesky/ATProto community, where I build bots, feeds, and tools for the open social web.
Did You Know?
Here's some stuff about me that you might not know:
- I picked up playing ice hockey as a defenseman in my late 20s, and started playing goalie when I turned 40
- I interviewed Jon Stewart for my college newspaper (shortly before he joined The Daily Show)
- I ran into "Weird Al" Yankovic in a souvenir store in Edinburgh, Scotland
- I have traveled to Canada, The Netherlands, England, Scotland, France, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Belarus
- I have performed improv professionally in: Raleigh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Washington DC, and Richmond, among other places
- I am an advisor for Momentum Learning in Durham, and have hired several Momentum graduates
- I was manager / artistic director of ComedySportz San Antonio for two years
- I have held advisory positions at: iSport360, Learn Platform, and Epifany
- I am not on Facebook or Twitter
- I have a goalie mask painted in a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy theme
- I take my family Christmas card photo every year in a different hockey jersey
- I produced an improv festival that featured future Saturday Night Live star Vanessa Bayer
- I have performed improv on the home court of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs
- While in college, I performed in the shadow cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- I was not the inspiration for the Ben & Jerry's flavor "Minter Wonderland", but I should have been
- My Github User ID is #955
- I used to write reviews of WCW wrestling shows for DDT Digest