KARL ANDERSON

kra@monkey.org
http://monkey.org/~kra
Portland, OR

Experience:

Senior Developer
Garage Games, Portland, Oregon
3/2009 - present
Developed scalable XMPP and REST messaging systems with Twisted Python.

Senior Developer
Something Simpler Systems, Vancouver, BC Canada
8/2007 - 2/2009
Designed and implemented low-latency feed aggregation and content
delivery frameworks with an emphasis on relevance filtering and
content discovery.  Developed REST web services with Ruby on Rails and
Twisted Python.  Designed and implemented data pipelining with
XMPP, Stomp, and Amazon SQS, data warehousing with Amazon SimpleDB and
S3, and data mining with Apache Hadoop and Amazon EC2.

Software Engineer
Kavi Corporation, Portland, OR
10/2003 - 7/2007
Developed the Kavi Platform, a web-based enterprise content server and
collaboration application based on Zope, Python, and MySQL.  Developed
web application frameworks, REST, XML-RPC, and LDAP interoperability
solutions, and object-relational tools.

Software Engineer
Independent contractor for CounterSign Software, Pleasanton, CA
6/2002 - 8/2002
Developed a Python and Zope based application suite with a small team.
Designed, implemented, and deployed several internet and intranet sites.

Software Engineer
ThinkShare, Portland, OR
2/2002 - 5/2002
Developed the ThinkShare Field Data Manager, an XSLT-based application
server for Palm, Windows CE and Windows 2000 clients.  Developed an
XML persistence and versioning system for space-constrained clients
with intermittent connectivity.  Contributed  to the development of a
relational database adapter and XSLT and XPath processor.

Software Engineer
Zope Corporation, Fredericksburg, VA and Portland, OR
1/2000 - 7/2001
Developed Zope, an open source application server and content
management framework written in Python and C.
- Led development of Parsed XML, a ZODB XML storage product, from inception
  to delivery.  Wrote and reviewed code and documentation,
  collaborated with distributed developers.
- Managed the Zope XML project, which spanned several products and
  core interfaces.  Facilitated communication between external and
  internal developers and users.
- Designed and implemented custom solutions.

Software Engineer
Contractor for Inso, Infoseek, Microsoft, and others
9/1995 - 6/1999
Various software engineering positions.  Details on request.

Education:

B.A. in Mathematics, Reed College.  Undergraduate thesis on data
compression and error-correcting codes.

Skills List:

- Fluent languages: Python, Ruby, C++, C.
- Experienced languages: Java, Scheme, Perl, PHP.
- Databases: MySQL.  Other storages: ZODB, ObjectStore.
- Clustering and cloud tools: Hadoop, EC2, SimpleDB, S3.
- Pipeline tools: Twisted Python, SQS, XMPP, Stomp, Atom.
- Web frameworks: Zope, Ruby on Rails.