Our Mission
To support and advance the herpetoculture industry.
We promote the ethical keeping and efficient and legitimate commerce of reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.
Our online platform connects breeders and keepers in the largest marketplace of its kind in the world.
We provide professional animal management tools and educational content.
Our Team
For many years, MorphMarket was run by one guy as a part-time passion project. We now have an entire team of professionals dedicated to improving these services for the community. Below is our core team. Not pictured are additional volunteers and experts who contribute in the forums and on an as-needed basis.
It's our pleasure to serve you!
John
CEO, Founder
John is passionate about building services that advance the herp industry and delight its hobbyists. His love for animals began as a child, but he only discovered the online reptile community in 2014 while researching pets for his family. The lack of a modern platform inspired the creation of MorphMarket. John has been involved with software since a young age. Professionally, he has focused on leading projects at startup and research companies, particularly in the area of language processing. He counts it a privilege to now focus his full time energy on serving this community. John and his family include a number of pets: a dumeril's boa, bearded dragon, two pet rats, fish, hermit crabs, and a dog.
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Judy
Director of Customer Success
As Director of Customer Success, Judy provides leadership in customer support and market moderation. Her journey in reptiles began with researching snakes for her children about twenty years ago. Since then, she has played a key part in building up many important online resources for the community. Her past roles have included Aditor at ball-pythons.net, Chief Editor of The Reptile Report, and Business Director at ShipYourReptiles. Judy loves the reptile community and hopes to continue playing a positive role for years to come. Judy's current critter family consists of a goofy German Shepherd, a milk snake, a California kingsnake, and a ball python.
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Thomas
Customer Success, Content Curator, Forum Admin
Thomas is one of the most versatile members of the MorphMarket team. His contributions in the MorphMarket Reptile Community forums led to his promotion to moderator and then admin, and he is now a core member of our team. His other roles include Customer Success and lead editor of the Morphpedia herp knowledge base. Thomas has been caring for reptiles and aquatic life for 20+ years as a main hobby. In the past few years he has focused mostly on boa constrictors, ball pythons, tree frogs and most recently monitors.
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Alex
Marketing, Customer Success
Alex is MorphMarket’s social media marketer and also helps on the Customer Support Team. He is a college student who is pursuing a degree in history. Alex loves animals and has had many different pets including dogs, cats, rats, ball pythons, and a boa constrictor.
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JJ
Marketing, Designer
JJ is a creative problem solver who has developed MorphMarket’s branding in our merchandise and expo setup. He developed these skills in the design/communication/marketing industry over the past 20+ years. He enjoys spending as much time in Photoshop as possible, but has other hobbies, like T-Shirts! He loves helping others make shirts that beg to be worn. In the past he had a reef tank, but is currently tending a family of five. He LOVES other’s pets, and is looking forward to having one of his own.
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Kristina
Designer
Kristina is bringing the awesome to MorphMarket’s user interfaces. Besides designing the new services, she is helping us redesign the entire site. She is a perfectionist, has an inquisitive mind and an eye for great design. She is passionate about creating user-centered design, likes to have things well done, as well as cool and simple solutions. She loves her adorable Singapura cat.
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Bryant
Developer
Byrant possesses a rare combination of technical and domain experience which he uses to help us improve our products and services. Since studying Computer Science at Iowa State, he has worked in several software consulting roles focused on big data and machine learning. Bryant got into reptiles in middle school due to an allergy to cats and dogs. In his spare time he enjoys golfing, side projects, and working out with his wife. He currently owns ball pythons, crested geckos, and leachianus geckos.
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Jonah
Developer
Jonah is a front-end developer who has helped with many projects including the MorphMarket App.
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Andre
Developer
Andre is a developer who is currently helping us to expand our set of services. He has been doing web-related work all the way back to the days when he was racking up his parent's phone bill with dial-up charges, and enjoying every moment of it. He even warmed up to Javascript in recent years. Recently, he adopted a stray neighborhood cat.
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Caleb
Developer
Caleb is a developer who has been helping to upgrade and improve our backend services. He is a senior software engineer with almost a decade of experience in web development. Most of his experience has been with helping startups build usable products, but he enjoys any technical challenge. Outside of work, he likes to play ping pong, go swimming and is also a loving father. Their family enjoys several cats.
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David
Developer
David is a senior software developer helping to build out the next generation of MorphMarket’s backend infrastructure. For over two decades, he has been developing software and deploying solutions and has a broad skill set for web and desktop application development. David has led and supervised software development teams, but he considers himself a developer at heart. In the past he has had fish, parrots and a German Bull dog. His family is currently looking for a puppy.
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Jack
Developer
Jack is a senior full stack software developer who has developed MorphMarket's App, notifications and infrastructure.
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