Christian Niles

Current

• Software Engineer at Get Satisfaction

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
• Chief Cartographer at outside.in
• Independent Professional at unit12.net (Self-employed)

• Web Developer at Nettmedia
• Developer at Computer Gallery

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Education

• New York University
• Palm Desert High School

Recommended

2 people have recommended Christian

Connections

137 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website

Christian Niles’s Summary

Experienced Web Developer in love with Ruby, Rails, and clean well-tested code.

Christian Niles’s Specialties:

Ruby, Data modeling/architecture, GIS, killing ugly code without regret or remorse.

Christian Niles’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Get Satisfaction

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Senior Software Engineer

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)

  I'm a Ruby developer in the LED team at LinkedIn.

• Chief Cartographer

  outside.in

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  I build much of the cool stuff you use at outside.in to connect with your neighbors and be a better place blogger.

• Independent Professional

  unit12.net (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  April 2001 — April 2007 (6 years 1 month)

• Web Developer

  Nettmedia

  (Online Media industry)

  May 1999 — April 2001 (2 years )

  Front and backend develoment for entertainment clients such as BMG, David Bowie, NY Yankees, Hanson, and others.

• Developer

  Computer Gallery

  (Computer Networking industry)

  June 1996 — August 1998 (2 years 3 months)

  Designed and managed company website, and performed a variety of internal development tasks.

Christian Niles’s Education

• New York University

  Computer Science, Media Studies, HCI 1998 — 2003

  Individualized Computer Science major entitled "Human Factors of Computer Systems Design". Published research with Natalie Jeremijenko.

• Palm Desert High School

Additional Information

Christian Niles’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website

Christian Niles’s Interests:

GIS, Ruby, Rails, iPhone, Cocoa, Data Visualization

Christian Niles’s Groups:

•    Boxes and Arrows
•    LinkedIn Events Forum
•    Blueprint CSS

Christian Niles’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch