Karl Anderson

Current

• Senior Developer at Something Simpler Systems

Past

• Software Engineer at Kavi Corporation
• Software Engineer (Self-employed)
• Software Engineer at ThinkShare

• Software Engineer at Zope Corporation
• Software Engineer at Inso

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Education

• Reed College

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Karl Anderson’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  Something Simpler Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Designed and implemented systems to ingest, search, relate, and syndicate content from various sources. Developed REST web services with Ruby on Rails.

• Software Engineer

  Kavi Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software 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 and interfaces, REST, XML-RPC, and LDAP interoperability solutions.
  - Developed a compliance application, billing and fulfillment application, workflows to support ANSI processes, and custom solutions.
  - Developed SQL query generators, object-relational tools, and storages.

• Software Engineer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)

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

• Software Engineer

  ThinkShare

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; 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 written in C++.
  - Developed an object XML storage system for space-constrained clients.
  - Developed client-server applications with intermittent connectivity.
  - Contributed to the development of an XML database and synchronizer, relational database adapter, and XSLT and XPath processor.

• Software Engineer

  Zope Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Developed Zope, an open source application server and content management solution written in Python and C.
  - Led development of Parsed XML, a DOM 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, 1990 — 1995

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