Release Engineer at Linden Lab
Sacramento, California Area
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- Release Engineer at Linden Lab
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- Systems Software Developer at Flextronics
- Independent Contractor at USA Self Employed
- Software Application Developer at Invision Design and Development
- PHP Programmer at California State University, Sacramento
- Programmer at Legislative Data Center
- Student Assistant at California Department of Education
- Google Summer of Code at Google
- Education
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- California State University-Sacramento
- Cogswell Polytechnical College
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Kyle Ambroff’s Summary
mmm, cake.
Kyle Ambroff’s Specialties:
Cross-platform development, C, .NET, Python, Common Lisp, GNU/Linux, GTK+ and GNOME Platform, Posix environment. Webby things.
Kyle Ambroff’s Experience
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Release Engineer
Linden Lab
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (9 months)
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Systems Software Developer
Flextronics
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FLEX; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)
Developing .NET software to support KioskFrame, our platform for developing software for the self serve economy.
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Independent Contractor
USA Self Employed
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)
Provide services as a software engineer. Specialize in web application development with django and python, the GNOME platform and GNU Linux.
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Software Application Developer
Invision Design and Development
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — September 2007 (7 months)
Rapid web application development using Python, Django, AJAX and MySQL. Also provided business model consulting for clients.
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PHP Programmer
California State University, Sacramento
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)
We are developing a courseware management system called LOCUS, which is similar to moddle, blackboard and webct. It is currently used by about 90 classes at the University. It was developed in PHP using the MySQL database. We will eventually release it as free software.
Duties included profiling existing applications and modifying them to improve performance and scalability, and re-designing some portions of the site to improve accessibility. -
Programmer
Legislative Data Center
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
March 2007 — April 2007 (2 months)
Developing an Information Security Management System based on OSSIM (http://www.ossim.net). Correlating data from Snort IDS, switch and router logs, and log information from 300+ servers in a centeral database where it can be anylized in real time.
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Student Assistant
California Department of Education
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)
February 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Database administration and maintenance. System administration and end user support.
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Google Summer of Code
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
Extended the Beagle Search tool to support automagic, Zeroconf networked searches via XML-RPC and DNS-SD. Beagle is a .NET application written for Linux and other Unix like operating systems. It is a search tool that ransachs your personal information space to find whatever you are looking for.
http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page
Kyle Ambroff’s Education
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California State University-Sacramento
2003 — 2007
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Cogswell Polytechnical College
None, Computer Science, 2003 — 2005
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Kyle Ambroff’s Interests:
free software, open source, python, cryptography, security, education, community, virtual worlds, lisp
Kyle Ambroff’s Groups:
Association for Computer Machinery
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