Gene Chuang

Current

Executive Director of Mobile Development at AT&T Interactive

Past

Director of Software Engineering at Yahoo! Search Marketing
Sr Software Engineer at Kiko.com
Software Engineer at AdBuySell.com

Sr Associate at Wilshire Associates
Research Associate at City Of Hope

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles
West Torrance High School

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Industry

Computer Software

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Gene Chuang’s Summary

A geek and entrepreneur at heart, I'm always looking into what's next: Web 3.0, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computers, Social, Open Platforms, Ad Exchange, Massive Data Computation, Innovation and Excellence.

I'm looking for:

1) native mobile developers! (Objective-C, Android-Java, J2ME, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre). http://is.gd/sUaF

2) web developers (Javascript, AJAX, CSS, JSON, HTML 5, REST-ful integration)

3) webkit/opera device web container hardcore developers

4) senior mobile architect - native and thin client frontend, web container middle tier, RoR/Java/Lucene backend, and be able to design and scale all of this!
SoCal and NorCal.

Gene Chuang’s Specialties:

Software engineering, agile development, java, search marketing, paid search, online advertising, architecture, offshoring, people management

Gene Chuang’s Experience

Executive Director of Mobile Development

AT&T Interactive

(Public Company; Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)

Building cool iPhone, Android, J2ME, Palm Pre and Symbian YPMobile App for AT&T Interactive (formerly www.yellowpages.com).

I'm looking for mobile developers! (Objective-C, Android-Java, J2ME, BREW, RIM, Win Mobile, etc..). SoCal and NorCal.
Director of Software Engineering

Yahoo! Search Marketing

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

2001 — February 2009 (8 years)

I was originally part of Goto.com (pioneer in sponsored search, not that other G company), then Overture, and finally Yahoo! Search Marketing. I have grown with the technology from a $500M ('01 rev) 'novel idea' to a $4B ('08 rev) advertising platform.

In 2006 I led five teams of 30 software engineers to rebuild our application stack for Panama, a project consisting of 600 engineers, 10K servers and 3M lines of code. Alas, this was also about the same time I stopped playing foosball...

Since 2007 I have also been involved in building Yahoo! Ad Exchange, apt.yahoo.com. Aside from expanding existing dev teams in three US offices, I have also been instrumental in the training and collaboration of teams in Y! Bangalore to increase overall engineering capacity.

Latest project was to build a cloud desktop application. We used Adobe AIR/Flex to create a powerful and UI-rich bulk management and keyword research app. This launched at the end of 08 and is currently in private beta in 3 markets.
Sr Software Engineer

Kiko.com

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year)

I was one of 5 core engineers that built the J2EE server side (on Weblogic 5.1) of the Kiko Lesson Creator - a pre-AJAX Javascript-enriched web-based WYSIWYG site publishing tool (think Geocities, but 10x cooler and with an education-bent).
Software Engineer

AdBuySell.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)

We built a pre-J2EE multi-client-to-server graphical/rich-media ad exchange network and serving systems. Unfortunately Doubleclick had a monopolistic grip on the banner ad marketplace during this period, and neither the system nor the company took off.
Sr Associate

Wilshire Associates

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Investment Management industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)

Developer for Axiom, a Fixed Income Portfolio Management software, written in C++. Aside from learning about bond futures and CMOs, which greatly helped in managing my own personal finances, my most memorable take-away from working at Wilshire was being able to say our company founder was also the first Space Tourist.
Research Associate

City Of Hope

(Biotechnology industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year)

Researcher in a NIH-funded lab exploring HIV Ribozyme Gene Therapy. Split my time between doing research in the Biohazard Level 3 lab wearing a bunny suit, and writing VB-Excel spreadsheets to facilitate data analysis in a computer lab. (sans bunny suit).

Gene Chuang’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles

BS , Biochemistry, emphasis in CS , 1992 — 1996

Activities and Societies:

Magna Cum Laude, National Merit Scholar, UCLA Alumni Scholar, UC Regents Scholar, ex-PreMed (MCAT: 39), Sunset Village Dorm President, 1995 NCAA Basketball Championship post-game Westwood Riot participant
West Torrance High School

Activities and Societies:

Academic Decathlon - Captain of '92 Team - L.A. County Champions, 2nd in State of California