Doug Judd

Current

• Principal Architect at Zvents

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Kosmix Corporation
• Senior Software Engineer / Manager at Inktomi Corporation
• Software Author at Verity Corporation

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Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• Hypertable

Doug Judd’s Experience

• Principal Architect

  Zvents

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for the design and archictecture of the search system with an initial emphasis on content acquisition.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Kosmix Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 9 months)

  Designed and architected a distributed web crawler and scaled it to 1 billion documents.
  
  Frontend performance - Built a high performance message passing layer to pass messages between all frontend components (query processors, snippet servers, spelling servers, etc). Built a similated load generater that used real query logs as imput, used for doing frontend performance testing. Designed the on-disk index layout for high performance. Build high performance index reader subsystem in the query processor using Async I/O for maximum concurrency.

• Senior Software Engineer / Manager

  Inktomi Corporation

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; INKT; Internet industry)

  July 1997 — September 2002 (5 years 3 months)

  Managed the web crawling and index group, delivered Inktomi's first 500 million document index.
  
  Designed and implemented Query execution system for the XML toolkit project. Designed and implemented a modular indexing pipeline for the web search called "superdex" to transform crawled documents into indexable data. Co-designed and implemented "slicerdicer", a tool for converting M indexes int N indexes. Implemented an index markup tool that allowed for editorial "tagging" of the index. Designed and implemented WebMap graph building software.

• Software Author

  Verity Corporation

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; VRTY; Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

  Worked on the VDK development team.

Doug Judd’s Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BS, Computer Science, 1987 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  President of ACM
  Played guitar in a band

Additional Information

Doug Judd’s Websites:

• My Company
• Hypertable

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