Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!
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- Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!
- Software Engineer at Google
- Developer at Enfold Systems
- Self-employed consultant at brevity.org
- Developer at ActiveState
- Systems Architect at Stylus Strategic Communications
- Education
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- Concordia University
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Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Summary
Goal: help people cooperate at a large scale.
Startup attitude, with experience at the giants in the industry. Cares deeply about user experience.
Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Specialties:
data visualization, geographic information systems, AJAX, internationalization, social software, Facebook, F8, object-oriented programming, functional programming, Perl, Java, Python, JavaScript, XSLT, XML, CSS, HTTP, SMTP, PostScript, Apache, Apache modules, mod_perl, writing, editing
Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (2 months)
Engineer at Flickr.
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Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Engineer on Upcoming.org. The site allows users to discover, coordinate, and publicize local events via their social network.
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Software Engineer
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
September 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Internationalization engineer for Google Checkout, a online payments service.
Accomplishments: modified Google's user accounts system to also securely retrieve credit card and other sensitive data; changes to Checkout data store, logic, and interface to accommodate international addresses, currencies, and languages; extended APIs used by merchants; and educated peers about best practices for internationalization. -
Developer
Enfold Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — July 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. During this short employment I added some features to their web proxy product, and improved the product install system.
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Self-employed consultant
brevity.org
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 7 months)
Consulted at various Vancouver firms, particularly Vision2Hire, a maker of human resources software delivered over the web. I created reporting systems, a US Equal Employment Opportunity compliance module, and integrated their site with partners. Along the way I refactored much of their code to be more testable, and instituted better coding practices.
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Developer
ActiveState
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 4 months)
ActiveState caters to professional developers working with scripting languages such as Perl, Python and PHP. I started in web development, and later moved into Language Technologies.
Major accomplishments: re-engineered the ActivePerl and ActivePython package installer; helped architect the ActiveState Programmer Network; improved API and configuration for a spam filtering engine. -
Systems Architect
Stylus Strategic Communications
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
July 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 5 months)
At Stylus, I designed and programmed web applications for some of Canada's most successful corporations. Among the more interesting stuff I wrote: a synchronized slide/RealVideo presentation system, and an internationalized content management system for sports news.
Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Education
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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:
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Googlers & Xooglers
Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Honors:
Yahoo Hack Day winner, "Best Use of Data", Q3 2007
Neil Kandalgaonkar’s Contact Settings
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