Courtland Alves
Entrepreneur
- Location
- San Francisco, California (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Courtland Alves's Overview
- Current
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- Entrepreneur at Startup
- Past
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- Mobile Game Producer at Crowdstar
- Cross Promotion Product Manager at Crowdstar
- Game and Development Lead at Crowdstar
- Software Engineer at Crowdstar
- Engineering Contractor at Technorati Media
- Software Engineer at Technorati Media
- Software Engineer at intouch group, inc.
- Software Engineer at Delivery Agent
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Courtland Alves' Summary
With over five years in web and mobile application development, I enjoy the challenge of creating a passionate team that creates revolutionary products.
Courtland Alves' Experience
Mobile Game Producer
Crowdstar
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry
July 2011 – February 2012 (8 months) Burlingame, CA
• Led product and project management of 3 mobile games being developed for the iOS and Android platforms
• Maximized team efficiency by implementing Scrum development process, utilizing iterative feature development, and leading the development of internal tools
Cross Promotion Product Manager
Crowdstar
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry
March 2011 – August 2011 (6 months) Burlingame, CA
• Maximized cross promotion effectiveness through data analysis, forecasting, product design, and third-party partnerships
Game and Development Lead
Crowdstar
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry
July 2010 – July 2011 (1 year 1 month) Burlingame, CA
• Directed a team of 10 developers, artists and community moderators that collectively operated Happy Aquarium, a top 5 social game that has reached over 90 million users
• Responsible for game revenue, user engagement, and cross-promotion
• Managed development process including build and release cycles, code-quality best practices, and scalable server-side design
Software Engineer
Crowdstar
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry
January 2010 – June 2010 (6 months) Burlingame, CA
• Created highly-scalable server-side features with billions of database rows and millions of daily users with php/mysql/memcache
• Integrated social media features into features
• Built flexible Content Management System eventually ported to all php products
Engineering Contractor
Technorati Media
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
May 2009 – December 2009 (8 months) San Francisco Bay Area
• Performed engineering duties using Python, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and CSS
• Projects include Zend/Solr/MySQL CMS, data-integrity management using Python, and high scalability design with Python
Software Engineer
Technorati Media
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
May 2008 – September 2008 (5 months) San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed internal web-based data-integrity tools for a blog aggregation engine using PHP, MySQL and JavaScript
• Integrated with a variety of technologies including Spread, Thrift, REST services, Lucene Indices, PHP, SQL, Perl, Python
Software Engineer
intouch group, inc.
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry
May 2007 – September 2007 (5 months) Berkeley, CA
• Created server-side features for a mobile content platform using Ruby on Rails and PHP
• Projects include email service and xml-based widget system
Software Engineer
Delivery Agent
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
May 2006 – September 2006 (5 months) San Francisco Bay Area
• Enhanced server-side e-commerce websites using PHP, Zend, and MySQL
• Projects include server-side image resizing and caching and a Lucene search service
Courtland Alves' Education
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Computer Science and Engineering
2005 – 2009
Completed coursework in software engineering, database systems, operating systems, compiler theory, technical communication, Java, C, algorithms, machine architecture and electrical engineering
Activities and Societies: Delta Kappa Epsilon
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