Nick Kallen

Current

• Senior Software Consultant at Pivotal Computer Systems

Past

• Senior Software Consultant (Self-employed)
• Senior Software Engineer at PlanetOut, Inc.
• Web Applications Engineer (Self-employed)

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Education

• UC Berkeley

Recommended

5 people have recommended Nick

Connections

74 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• A Recent Rails Site:
• Primarily Javascript/Ajax

Nick Kallen’s Summary

I have been building Web Applications since 1995: e-commerce and social networking services on a variety of platforms and frameworks. Mostly programming in Ruby (and Javascript) since 2006, although recently I've been doing some Scala and Erlang.

I am the author of NamedScope and many other popular open source projects. See my open-source work at Github.

My specialties include: scalability, database optimization, algorithms, object oriented design, metaprogramming, Agile/XP, Javascript/Ajax, and Ruby on Rails.

I write beautiful code, very quickly.

I am only available for consulting.

Nick Kallen’s Specialties:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, Erlang, Lucene, Javascript, Java, PHP, XSLT, TCL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, TCL, Perl, Unix, Awk, Query Optimization, Hibernate, Swing, Verity, Agile, XP, CSS, Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, Memcached, Prototype/Scriptaculous, YUI, TinyMCE, FCKEditor, jQuery

Nick Kallen’s Education

• UC Berkeley

  BA, Philosophy, August 1998 — August 2005

  GPA 3.8

  Activities and Societies:

  High Distinction in Scholarship, College of Letters & Science
  Chancellor's Scholarship, UC Regents
  Highest Honors, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Additional Information

Nick Kallen’s Websites:

• A Recent Rails Site:
• Primarily Javascript/Ajax

Nick Kallen’s Interests:

data mining, programming languages, theoretical computer science, math, philosophy

Nick Kallen’s Honors:

GRE (taken 12/1/05)
Math: 800 out of 800
Verbal: 800 out of 800
Written: 6.0 out of 6.0

Nick Kallen’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers