Neil Kandalgaonkar

Past
  • Software Engineer (Flickr) at Yahoo!
  • Software Engineer (Upcoming.org) at Yahoo!
  • Software Engineer at Google
Education
  • Concordia University
Connections
131 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Summary

Goal: help people cooperate at a large scale.

Experience as a developer at very highly trafficked sites and one-room startups. Cares deeply about user experience.

Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Specialties:

Buzzwords you might be looking for: data visualization, geographic information systems, internationalization, social software, social networking services, calendaring software, object-oriented programming, functional programming, PHP, Perl, Java, Python, JavaScript, XSLT, XML, CSS, HTTP, SMTP, PostScript, Smarty, Apache, Apache modules, mod_perl, cvs, Subversion (svn), Perforce, writing, editing


Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Experience

  • Software Engineer (Flickr)

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

    August 2008April 2009 (9 months)

    Flickr is almost certainly the best kitten delivery mechanism in the world.

  • Software Engineer (Upcoming.org)

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

    December 2006August 2008 (1 year 9 months)

    Engineer on Upcoming.org. The site allows users to discover, coordinate, and publicize local events via their social network.

  • Software Engineer

    Google

    (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

    September 2005October 2006 (1 year 2 months)

    Internationalization engineer for Google Checkout, a online payments service, also a lot of general frontend work.

  • Developer

    Enfold Systems

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    April 2005July 2005 (4 months)

    Enfold Systems sells consulting and enterprise tools for Plone, an open source Python-based CMS. I left this company amicably when I got a job offer from Google.

  • Self-employed consultant

    brevity.org (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Insurance industry)

    May 2002November 2004 (2 years 7 months)

    Consulted at various Vancouver firms, particularly Vision2Hire, a maker of human resources software delivered over the web.

  • Developer

    ActiveState

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    September 2000December 2001 (1 year 4 months)

    ActiveState creates programming tools for scripting languages such as Perl, Python and PHP. I started in web development, and later moved into Language Technologies (Programmer's Package Manager Server, PureMessage SMTP filters)

  • Systems Architect

    Stylus Strategic Communications

    (Online Media industry)

    July 1997November 1999 (2 years 5 months)

    At Stylus, I designed and programmed web applications for some of Canada's most successful corporations.


Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Education

  • Concordia University

    2000


Additional Information

Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Websites:

Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Interests:

internet, social networks, REST, mapreduce, functional programming, refactoring, user interfaces, history, art, hacking, perl, python, erlang, haskell, democracy, anarchy, development process, anarchy and the development process

Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Groups:

  •    Googlers & Xooglers
  •    H1 JOBS

Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Honors:

Yahoo Hack Day winner, "Best Use of Data", Q3 2007


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