
Lead Developer at Nature Publishing Group
Greater New York City Area

Lead Developer at Nature Publishing Group
Greater New York City Area
My background includes years of success in the development of web and back-end applications. I offer particular expertise in publishing, online advertising(lead generation), social software, e-commerce and back office systems.
Over the 11 years of my career in software engineering (from which I spent 6 years doing web development exclusively), I have successfully accomplished a vast number of larger and smaller projects for both commercial enterprises and for university-based research groups.
11 years of programming experience (Java, Python, Scala)
6 years of web programming experience (Java, Python, Scala and to a smaller extent Ruby)
3 years of team leading experience
2 years of Linux sysadmin experience (mostly Red Hat)
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
http://nature.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
May 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 6 months)
http://opt-intelligence.com
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 4 months)
building social software for scientific experiments http://cdg.columbia.edu/cdg/experiments both of my projects appeared in mainstream media (please see Honors&Awards section for references)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
January 2002 — August 2002 (8 months)
(Banking industry)
January 1998 — January 2002 (4 years 1 month)
Computer Science 2004 — 2004
Advanced Operating Systems graduate course
BS , Information Technology , 1997
scala programming language, google app engine, web development, social science, AI, chess
http://code.google.com/p/django-pyodbc/
http://www.djangoproject.com/
http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
http://code.google.com/p/guice-maven/
http://bitbucket.org/pk11/pinky/wiki/Home
http://bitbucket.org/pk11/mercurial-extensions-localbranch/
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E5DA123EF937A25751C0A9609C8B63
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123002287.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4700958.stm
http://www.nature.com/news/1998/030804/full/news030804-10.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3132023.stm
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/10/nac.00.html
http://www.interactivemediaawards.com/winners/certificate.asp?param=47877&cat=1
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/05/naturecom_wins_a_webby_1.html