Kasper Souren

Current

Self employed at Souren Consultancy

Past

Developer at Hyves
Researcher, wiki specialist, software architect at Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Core developer and tech team coordinator at CouchSurfing

Developer and system designer at CEPES, Peru
Volunteer, übergeek at IESC/Geekcorps
Researcher at IRCAM, Paris
Developer at PPC

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Education

Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
St. Janscollege Hoensbroek

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Kasper Souren’s Summary

Information technologist with broad experience in internet applications, social networks and open source. Strong background in mathematics and AI. Interested in new challenges related to wikis, languages and/or wireless technologies.

Kasper Souren’s Specialties:

Languages (fluent Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and bits of more), GNU/Linux, Drupal, wiki technology and sociology, Python, PHP, MySQL

Kasper Souren’s Experience

Self employed

Souren Consultancy

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Consulting on social web technology (wiki, Drupal, community), design, SEO, for small businesses and non-profits.
Developer

Hyves

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
Researcher, wiki specialist, software architect

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

(Research industry)

June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

Design and implementation of a free software to analyze trust among participants of social networks.

See http://trustlet.org/
Core developer and tech team coordinator

CouchSurfing

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Hospitality industry)

August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

* Coordinating the CouchSurfing tech team and taking it to another level
* Wiki maintenance and content editing
* Improving communication and transparency
* Getting new volunteers started
* Working on user interface, compliance to web standards, bug fixing
Developer and system designer

CEPES, Peru

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — July 2006 (4 months)

Creation of an information system to increase transparency of grant applications to the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture. Used technologies: PHP, MySQL, connection to MS SQL (through cygwin).
Volunteer, übergeek

IESC/Geekcorps

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)

As Geekcorps Mali's technology expert I set up Kunnafonix, a GNU/Linux system for communitary radio stations. I also helped out with networking tasks and started the Bambara Wikipedia.
Researcher

IRCAM, Paris

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 5 months)

Researcher in Artifial Intelligence applied to music, designed and implemented (in Python) a system to analyse musical pieces.
Developer

PPC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 4 months)

Programmer of web applications, using ASP, MSSQL, PHP.

Kasper Souren’s Education

Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans

sonology, electronic music 2001 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

I staged performances of my electronic music, played in an experimental jazz ensemble and John Zorn's Cobra.
I helped composer Clarence Barlow to migrate his software to GNU/Linux.
DJ at local radio station.
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Master of Science , Mathematics , 1995 — 2000

Received my Propedeuse with Honors (cum laude).
Graduated on a thesis on string searching.
St. Janscollege Hoensbroek