Ian Kallen

Current

Entrepreneur at Consultant

Past

Senior Systems and Software Architect at Technorati
Senior Software Engineer at Covalent Technologies
Manager of Software and Systems at Salon.com

Director of Technology at Gamespot
Systems Administrator at Taos Mountain

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Education

San Francisco State University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Ian Kallen’s Summary

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A system, internet and software technologist since 1994 (internet user since 1989). Developed management portals (enterprise software) and large, scalable web services for online infrastructure and content. Not a single one of my former gigs have ceased operation, they are all ongoing concerns. I'm an agile and inventive technologist with a rich background in application and system design, architecture and project leadership. Focused on the big picture while tending to the details in tenacious pursuit of success.

Ian Kallen’s Specialties:

Web application development leadership and coding with agile development practices (XP, scrum, test-driven, etc). Technical highlights include J2EE, Struts/tiles, JSP/taglibs, Velocity, Xdoclet, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Lucene, EJBs (prefer POJOs), mod_perl, HTML::Mason, PHP, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JAX-RPC, SOAP::Lite, ant, maven, cruise control, caching technologies (such as memcached), messaging and asyncronous systems (such as JMS) and a range of other technologies.

Ian Kallen’s Experience

Entrepreneur

Consultant

(Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

Innovator highly experienced in wrangling bits, ideas and people to develop web scale data acquisition, analytics and search applications.
Senior Systems and Software Architect

Technorati

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2004 — February 2009 (4 years 11 months)

Leading ongoing efforts towards infrastructure stabilization, architectural planning, project planning, vision articulation and software development.
Performing system analysis and design of an evolving and rapidly scaling infrastructure characterized by high write rates as well as query rates. Architectural and code refactoring for continuous system improvement.
Built statistics frameworks for content analysis, content archiving and query frameworks, localizable web interfaces, service oriented architecture (RESTful) and fraud ("web spam") detection systems.
Senior Software Engineer

Covalent Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — March 2004 (3 years 2 months)

Shepherded full product life cycles, rendered development projections, led engineering teams three to eight engineers (worked solo at times too!) as well participating in Covalent's strategic planning.
Manager of Software and Systems

Salon.com

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

June 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Architected network, technical operations, software and integration for Web delivery, online applications, content management, workflow, publishing, security and other systems.
Director of Technology

Gamespot

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

February 1996 — June 1999 (3 years 5 months)

Founded technical operations and developed systems for content management, online applications, systems automation, traffic analysis, ad server architecture, performance tuning and security management.

Gamespot.com was acquired by ZDNet which in turn was acquired by C/Net, it's now C/Net's game channel, ranked in the top 200 of Alex traffic rankings.
Systems Administrator

Taos Mountain

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1995 — February 1996 (4 months)

Contractor at Oracle Corporation - Server Technology Division (Redwood Shores). Supported large Unix development environment performing OS migrations, back-ups and restorations, Sun Sparc hardware maintenance, and systems automation.

Ian Kallen’s Education

San Francisco State University

BA , Special Major - Arms Control and Cold War Studies , 1983 — 1991

Probably took too many art and music classes in college. Started majors in computer science and physics but grew disinterested in where those were going. Finally focused on international relations with a special interest in arms control verification technologies; all told, accumulated 160 graduate and undergraduate units. Also, DJ'd at University of San Francisco's radio station, KUSF from 1982 to 1984. Yep, 'twas an eclectic ride! During this time, also worked as a turn-around manager for pizza joints around the San Francisco bay area.

Activities and Societies:

Dean's List, Authored online guide "Post-Soviet Study Resources on the Internet" (1991)

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Ian Kallen’s Interests:

social software, technology forecasting, startups, emerging technologies, software design, scalable system architectures, baseball, gypsy jazz, hiking, tikkun olam