Ikai Lan

Current

• Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Past

• Engineering Consultant at CollegeCarrot
• Systems Engineer at Citrix Systems
• Systems Administrator at San Jose State University

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Education

• San Jose State University

Recommended

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Connections

183 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Ikai Lan’s Summary

Technology enthusiast with experience in networking, systems administration and software development. Interested in projects with emerging or as-of-yet unproven technologies. As comfortable in customer facing settings as in late night garage hackathons.

Ikai Lan’s Specialties:

DHTML (AJAX) / XML, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, C/C++, Java/Groovy, SQL, Linux/BSD
IP Communications (Telephony/Networking)
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese

Ikai Lan’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Software engineer working for Light Engineering Division of LinkedIn. Responsible for agile prototyping and development of professional networking applications.

• Engineering Consultant

  CollegeCarrot

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)

  Engineering consultant for early stage education startup planning web presence. Development done in PHP, Ruby on Rails. Administrated Linux production and staging servers, MySQL databases.

• Systems Engineer

  Citrix Systems

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  February 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 4 months)

  Pre and post sales engineering support for clients of Citrix VPN offering, Citrix OEM IP Telephony application server for Cisco, Avaya and Nortel VoIP solutions.
  
  Performed customer facing services for custom implementations of Citrix Application Gateway server.

• Systems Administrator

  San Jose State University

  (Computer Networking industry)

  August 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 5 months)

  Served helpdesk functions for residents and employees at San Jose State University Housing.
  
  Assisted IT department in various projects, including network operations and developing self service applications.

Ikai Lan’s Education

• San Jose State University

  B.S., Computer Science

  Dean's list
  Graduated with honors
  Self supported through college

  Activities and Societies:

  Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity

Additional Information

Ikai Lan’s Groups:

•    SJSUAlumni
•    Citrix Systems Employees and Alumni (Citrites)
•    KIVA
•    Ruby on Rails
•    Django
•    MySQL Professionals