Karl Anderson

Current

• Senior Developer at Garage Games

Past

• Senior Developer at Something Simpler Systems
• Software Engineer at Kavi Corporation
• Software Engineer at Self Employed

• Software Engineer at ThinkShare
• Software Engineer at Zope Corporation
• Software Engineer at Inso

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Education

• Reed College

Connections

78 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Karl Anderson’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  Garage Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Developed scalable XMPP and REST messaging systems with Twisted Python.

• Senior Developer

  Something Simpler Systems

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  Designed and implemented low-latency feed aggregation and content delivery frameworks with an emphasis on relevance filtering and content discovery. Developed REST web services with Ruby on Rails and Twisted Python. Designed and implemented data pipelining with XMPP, Stomp, and Amazon SQS, data warehousing with Amazon SimpleDB and S3, and data mining with Apache Hadoop and Amazon EC2.

• Software Engineer

  Kavi Corporation

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2003 — July 2007 (3 years 10 months)

  Developed the Kavi Platform, a web-based enterprise content server and collaboration application based on Zope, Python, and MySQL. Developed web application frameworks, REST, XML-RPC, and LDAP interoperability solutions, and object-relational tools.

• Software Engineer

  Self Employed

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)

  Developed a Python and Zope based application suite with a small team. Designed, implemented, and deployed several internet and intranet sites.

• Software Engineer

  ThinkShare

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2002 — May 2002 (4 months)

  Developed the ThinkShare Field Data Manager, an XSLT-based application server for Palm, Windows CE and Windows 2000 clients. Developed an XML persistence and versioning system for space-constrained clients with intermittent connectivity. Contributed to the development of a relational database adapter and XSLT and XPath processor.

• Software Engineer

  Zope Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Developed Zope, an open source application server and content management framework written in Python and C.
  - Led development of Parsed XML, a ZODB XML storage product, from inception to delivery. Wrote and reviewed code and documentation, collaborated with distributed developers.
  - Managed the Zope XML project, which spanned several products and core interfaces. Facilitated communication between external and internal developers and users.
  - Designed and implemented custom solutions.

• Software Engineer

  Inso

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  Developed a dynamic XML and SGML based content management system. Led development of versioning and difference detection software.

Karl Anderson’s Education

• Reed College

  BA , Math , 1995

Additional Information

Karl Anderson’s Groups:

•    Python Community
•    Reed College Alumni
•    Hadoop Users

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