KARL ANDERSON

kra@monkey.org
http://monkey.org/~kra

Skills Overview:

I am a software developer with thirteen years of experience.  I've
worked a lot with database-backed web frameworks, of course, but some
of my most interesting accomplishments have been with object
persistence and versioning, and large-scale data manipulation.

- Fluent languages: Python, Ruby, C++, C.
- Experienced languages: Java, Scheme, Perl, PHP.
- Databases: MySQL, ZODB, ObjectStore, custom object databases.
- Web frameworks: Zope, Ruby on Rails.
- Interesting methods: UML, agile development.

Experience:

Senior Developer
Something Simpler Systems, Vancouver, BC Canada
8/2007 - present
Designed and implemented systems to acquire, search, relate, and syndicate
content.  Developed REST web services with Ruby on Rails.  Developed
map-reduce frameworks to process large distributed datasets with Hadoop,
SimpleDB, S3, Python, and Java.

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 and interfaces, REST, XML-RPC,
  and LDAP interoperability solutions.
- Developed a compliance application, billing and fulfillment application,
  workflows to support ANSI processes, and custom solutions.
- Developed SQL query generators, object-relational tools, and
  storages.

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 interacting 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 written in C++.
- Developed an object XML storage system for space-constrained clients.
- Developed client-server applications with intermittent connectivity.
- Contributed to the development of an XML database and synchronizer,
  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 solution 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
Hall Kinion, contractor for Inso, Portland, OR
3/1998 - 6/1999
Developed software in C++ for Dynabase, a dynamic XML and SGML based content
management system.
- Led development of versioning and difference detection software.
- Developed and maintained code to efficiently interact with versioned
  XML and SGML content.

Software Engineer
Contractor for Infoseek, Microsoft, and others
9/1995 - 12/1997
Various software engineering positions.  Details on request.

Education:

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