From a young age, Noah Everett was destined to do big things in the online world. Noah was born and raised in the Southern Great Plains of Oklahoma. After graduating high school at the ripe age of 15 (at 15 we were still trying to wear matching clothes), Noah was too young to be accepted into college. Instead of moving away for more official schooling, Noah spent many hours a day perusing the magical online world while teaching himself the ins and outs of web development and programming.

All this would greatly pay off and pave the path for Noah to develop everyone’s favorite photo-sharing Twitter client: Twitpic. Twitpic emerged out of the fairly simple vision of being able to share photos via Twitter with the world. Noah went to work on the backend development and what started as a side-project emerged into Twitpic in February 2008. Riding solo, Noah took Twitpic from birth to the widely used and recognized program it has become. Twitpic’s fame exploded in January of 2009 when thousands of users accessed the site simultaneously in order to see a posted picture of US Airways Flight 1549 which went down in the Hudson River. Today, Twitpic is host to over 12 million users and processes billions of picture requests every month.

Not one to be known to take many breaks, Noah has recently embarked on a journey to build tools that make the web an easier place to work. On August 10th of this year, Noah announced the start of his new company Heello (pronounced HE-low). Noah’s desire to make communication easier between groups, especially when building new products, will be addressed with Heello. Heello will also have a non-profit wing serving the local community and world at large. Noah has not yet revealed too much more about Heello, but promises that things will be in the works soon.

Currently, Noah resides in Charleston, SC where he continues to work on Twitpic and Heello, with the help of his faithful parents (his Dad does the accounting while his Mom assists with Customer Service). Noah’s Geekend keynote, entitled “The Weekend Project Called Twitpic,” will highlight Noah’s path to success along with the obstacles he overcame. Sometimes the idea you least expect to work turns into the phenomenon you never imagined possible. You can join his loyal band of followers on Twitter and read up on insights into the life of the nice guy that finished first.