Hugh Bien

Current

• Engineer at KaChing Group Inc.

Past

• Developer at Gear Square, LLC
• Engineer at Telaeris, INC
• Developer at Ligand Pharmaceuticals

• Zebra (Tech Support) at UCSD
• Developer at PINT, Inc.
• Sandwich Artist at Subway

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Education

• University of California, San Diego

Connections

17 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• kaChing Engineering

Hugh Bien’s Summary

Software developer by day, sandwich artist by night.

Hugh Bien’s Experience

• Engineer

  KaChing Group Inc.

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Working with Rails, Objective-C/Cocoa Touch, and Java.

• Developer

  Gear Square, LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2008 — May 2009 (1 year )

  Developed ActionGear for the Mac using Objective-C/Cocoa (http://gearsquare.com/actiongear/). Contract work using Django/jQuery.

• Engineer

  Telaeris, INC

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Created software/hardware platforms for oil refineries using Rails/ExtJS.

• Developer

  Ligand Pharmaceuticals

  (Public Company; LGND; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)

  Temporary internship, fixed bugs in their data entry PHP/MySQL app.

• Zebra (Tech Support)

  UCSD

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  Helped UCSD students use our software & Linux servers.

• Developer

  PINT, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2006 — June 2006 (3 months)

  Internship, worked with PHP/MySQL to make an internal Javascript source code manager.

• Sandwich Artist

  Subway

  (Privately Held; Restaurants industry)

  December 2003 — August 2004 (9 months)

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Hugh Bien’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  BS , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007

Additional Information

Hugh Bien’s Websites:

• kaChing Engineering

Hugh Bien’s Interests:

objective-c, python, ruby, javascript, html, css, linux, servers, macs, sandwiches, technology

Hugh Bien’s Groups:

Hacker News: hbien

•    Hacker News
•    kaChing - a better way to invest

Hugh Bien’s Honors:

Publication: Advanced Rails Recipe, Prevent Train Wrecks chapter

Hugh Bien’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• reference requests
• getting back in touch