Principal Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Doer at MyLife.com
- Ski Instructor at Northstar at Tahoe
- Principal Engineer at Wink, Inc.
- Past
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- Sr. Mgr, Engineering at Yahoo!
- Principal Engineer at MailFrontier
- Director of Engineering at Excite@Home Corporation
- Software Engineer at Adobe Systems
- VP Technology at Novo Media Group
- Consultant - WebMagic at Silicon Graphics
- Contractor - Iris Explorer Project at Silicon Graphics
- Systems Administator at MIPS Computer Systems
- Education
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- Foothill College
- University of Oregon
- south eugene high school
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David Koblas’s Summary
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* Eight years engineering management at all levels. Built successful teams to deliver products ranging from large public web services to data warehouse analysis systems.
* Innovative and motivated leader; founded, directed and sold the first Internet yellow pages directory company.
* Twenty years software development experience working on Internet security, visual programming, and graphic design applications in a variety of programming environments including assembly language, C, C++ STL, Perl, PHP, JavaScript and Java.
David Koblas’s Specialties:
Software Architecture, System Architecture, Large scale system design. engineering management
David Koblas’s Experience
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Doer
MyLife.com
(Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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Ski Instructor
Northstar at Tahoe
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
December 2007 — Present (2 years )
Part time position - teaching skiing to kids and adults.
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Principal Engineer
Wink, Inc.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
* Primarily concerned with the end user experience, worried about everything from SEO issues to user interaction. Front end development done using PHP Zend Framework, Ajax (Prototype, JavaScript), MySQL.
* Fire chief for the releases, managed a small team of front end developers to insure tasks were on schedule.
* Drove changes to the back end search architecture including the overall strategy for how the search experience should work.
* Implemented standard Agile processes across the organization, including moving to Milestone oriented releases and utilizing Trac as the standard bugtracking/release tracking tool. -
Sr. Mgr, Engineering
Yahoo!
(Public Company; Internet industry)
April 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 4 months)
Led the Yahoo! Mail Front End team and the PIM (AddressBook, Notepad and Calendar) Front and Backend teams.
* Redefined the release process for Yahoo! Mail to incorporate product definition, engineering scoping and a full QA process.
* Adopted agile processes in the engineering teams to give realistic deliverables and progress metrics across the Mail and PIM engineering teams.
* Part of the team that built the business case to make address book a service rather than a vertical product.
* Grew the Mail/PIM teams from 6 engineers to 24 engineers in a six month period. -
Principal Engineer
MailFrontier
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — April 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Was the first full time employee at this anti-spam startup company.
* Architected and led the core development of server products, encompassing component design to overall system architecture. The high performance multi-threaded SMTP was written in C++/STL, and all parts of the system were designed to be cross platform for both Windows and Unix (Solaris/Linux).
* Developed and implemented the first commercial Bayesian anti-spam system. Ensured that the company was focused on spam during the early formative stages of the product development.
* Designed the network protocols for real time anti-spam updates that balanced update frequence with data transmittial to insure that updates could happen in a timely fashion with a minimal network overhead. -
Director of Engineering
Excite@Home Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; athm; Internet industry)
April 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 11 months)
* Established a software architecture group to institute best engineering practices and define core technology for use across all Excite server products.
* Developed corporate communication product strategy in conjunction with the business development and product marketing organizations.
* Managed the rapid development and deployment for the rewrite of Excite Mail from a Perl based system to a Java server application. This enabled the system to be fully internationalized and brandable for over twenty international co-brands of the product.
* Revitalized a second engineering team from a dysfunctional group into an effective team with clear focus.
* Responsible for $5M budget for Excite Mail infrastructure.
* Worked with product marketing to define product release plans and feature sets.
* Evaluated companies for partnership potential, which included advising the business development team on specifics necessary to insure a successful deal. -
Software Engineer
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
* Worked with business units to develop short and long term online business goals. Developed these into clear online initiatives with complete specifications and budgets.
* Managed day-to-day technical operations of ShopAcer, an online catalog. -
VP Technology
Novo Media Group
(Internet industry)
February 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 9 months)
Founded Home Pages to develop the first yellow page directory on the Internet. Had technology developed to track the usage patterns of users to specific web sites. Sold firm (Home Pages) to Novo Media Group, an interactive media company.
* Provided architectural and technical leadership to staff. Initiated the development of procedures to accommodate new technologies.
* Interacted with clients to develop project and bid specifications.
* Prioritized personnel and technical resources to accomplish specified projects within timelines and budgets.
* Developed complete web site visitor analysis system, which enhanced corporate marketability.
* Identified computing environment and telephone system resource requirements and implemented timely solutions.
* Created business plan and acquired venture capital funding for Home Pages.
* Established large client base including Silicon Graphics, Hitachi Japan, Softbank Expos, Meckler Media, and Montgomery Securities. -
Consultant - WebMagic
Silicon Graphics
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; sgi; Computer Hardware industry)
November 1993 — June 1994 (8 months)
Part of that small team making WebMagic...
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Contractor - Iris Explorer Project
Silicon Graphics
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; sgi; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1991 — November 1992 (1 year 6 months)
Did a variety of tasks on the Explorer project.
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Systems Administator
MIPS Computer Systems
(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1987 — September 1989 (1 year 10 months)
* In charge of all aspects of corporate TCP/IP network during period of major growth from a small start-up company to a publicly traded corporation, including software and hardware installation, network design, implementation, and system security.
* Responsible for selection and training of all systems administration personnel.
* Designed the low voltage cabling system for several new buildings, as well as expansion and maintenance of existing PBX system.
* Evaluated and selected hardware for both local and wide area networks.
David Koblas’s Education
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Foothill College
EMT 2004 — 2005
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University of Oregon
BS , Physics , March 1991
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south eugene high school
1982 — 1986
Additional Information
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iPhone Business Incubator
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David Koblas’s Honors:
* PSIA Certified Ski Instructor
* Author of the SOCKS protocol
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