Entrepreneur, software architect & developer
Austin, Texas Area
Entrepreneur, software architect & developer
Austin, Texas Area
My goal is to help create software that lots of people find useful and love to use.
Server-side Java development for high-volume, high-performance systems. I'm currently doing lots of information retrieval/search engine work.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)
As usual with startups, everyone wears several hats. My primary role is lead architect for Indeed.com's job search engine and advertising system. I also work on the user interface.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
May 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 9 months)
Primarily software development, with distractions to run other parts of the business.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)
At KPI I developed Jakarta Struts-based web applications for medium-traffic developer community web sites, including implementing a distributed cache plug-in for Jakarta OJB using JGroups.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; FORG; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — January 2003 (9 months)
I designed and implemented a server failover component for Forgent's Video Network Platform (VNP) product, and implemented various application features into the client-side user interface.
BS , Computer Science and Mathematics , January 2000 — May 2004
My favorite professors at UT-Austin are J Strother Moore, Peter Stone, and Alan Cline.
Starting a new search-related company, Information Retrieval, search engine technology, algorithms, programming competition
ACM
3rd place finalist, 2003 Idea2Product competition at UT-Austin
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/cofe/i2p/2003finalists.cfm#Classgrabber