Senior Software Engineer at Twistage
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer at Twistage
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Tobi
- Programmer/Analyst at Academic Management Systems
- Developer at Pulse 360
- Technical Director of CADL at University at Buffalo
- Education
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- State University of New York at Buffalo
- California Institute of the Arts
- The University of Glasgow
- Oberlin College
- Oberlin College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Kevin Baird’s Summary
Developer focusing on high-level languages and processes. I have a particular interest in Ruby, and have written a book called Ruby By Example that approaches the Ruby language from a functional programming perspective, and concentrates on the Ruby language as distinct from the Rails application framework. Listen to my Dr. Dobb's Journal podcast interview at http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/201200865
Kevin Baird’s Specialties:
refactoring, functional programming, ruby, rails, haskell, erlang, conformant markup
Kevin Baird’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Twistage
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Coding for a video backbone service.
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Senior Software Engineer
Tobi
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
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Programmer/Analyst
Academic Management Systems
(Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — October 2008 (1 year)
I have been brought in to write new projects in Ruby on Rails, and to help transition existing products.
The shop is in very good hands. They brought me in as the first Ruby guy, and they now have 3 full-time Ruby people, with others transitioning over as their responsibilities allow. -
Developer
Pulse 360
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 5 months)
I designed and coded software in Perl, including a major chunk of a rewrite of the company's flagship adserving software called Barista. I was also a strong advocate for
1) refactoring,
2) the DRY principle (http://www.artima.com/intv/dry.html), and
3) working at a higher level of abstraction - closer to the expensive human brain, further from the cheap commodity computer hardware. -
Technical Director of CADL
University at Buffalo
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 1999 — June 2005 (6 years 1 month)
Responsible for all technical decisions affecting the Communicative and Assistive Devices Laboratory with the Communicative Disorders and Sciences department at UB.
Kevin Baird’s Education
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State University of New York at Buffalo
Ph.D. , Music Composition , 1998 — 2005
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California Institute of the Arts
M.F.A. , Composition with New Media , 1994 — 1996
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The University of Glasgow
M.Mus. , Computer Music , 1994 — 1995
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Oberlin College
B.A. , Religion , 1989 — 1993
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Oberlin College
B.M. , Electronic & Computer Music , 1989 — 1993
Additional Information
Kevin Baird’s Websites:
Kevin Baird’s Interests:
ruby, rails, functional programming, haskell, erlang, refactoring
Kevin Baird’s Groups:
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California Institute of the Arts
