KARL ANDERSON

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

Experience:

Senior Software Engineer
Duo Security, Ann Arbor, MI and Portland, OR
12/2010 - present

Senior Developer
InstantAction, Portland, OR
3/2009 - 11/2010
- Developed REST and XMPP messaging software, and generic storage and
delivery software for REST and XMPP clients, using Twisted Python.
- Evaluated and implemented publish/subscribe and push/pull frameworks
for content and application data delivery, including PubSubHubBub,
BOSH, and Atom Store-inspired tiered architectures. 
- Developed OAuth server software for three-legged authentication and
authorization between untrusted clients, and an application server
framework to use these authorizations.

Senior Developer
Something Simpler Systems, Vancouver, BC Canada
8/2007 - 2/2009
Developed on-demand data mining software with Apache Hadoop and Amazon
EC2, SimpleDB, and S3; used this to prototype and develop relevance
filtering and content discovery software with OpenCalais and other
semantic extraction tools.  Designed and implemented low-latency
publish/subscribe, syndication, and content delivery frameworks with 
Ruby on Rails, Twisted Python, XMPP, Stomp, and Amazon SQS.

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

Software Engineer
ThinkShare, Portland, OR
2/2002 - 5/2002
Developed the ThinkShare Field Data Manager, an XSLT-based application
server for palmtops and Windows clients.  Developed versioned
XML persistence software for space-constrained clients
with intermittent connectivity, XSLT and XPath processors, and ORM tools.

Software Engineer
Zope Corporation, Fredericksburg, VA and Portland, OR
1/2000 - 7/2001
Developed Zope and ZODB, an open source persistence engine, application
server, and content management framework.  Developed XML persistence
software and XSLT processors.  Guided the Zope XML project, which
spanned several open source products and core interface.  Developed
software and applications for diverse client needs.

Software Engineer
Contractor, consultant
1995 - 1999, 2002, 2010
Various software engineering positions.  Details on request.

Education:

B.A. in Mathematics, Reed College.  Thesis, information-theoretic
background to data compression and error-correcting codes.