Kevin Brown - Résumé

Location: Milpitas, CA
Email: etnu@etnu.org
I am...
An experienced engineer with over 9 years of professional development experience.
Looking for...
A development lead / Architect position, with a strong preference for web applications and cutting-edge technology.
Desired total compensation
Equivalent of $150,000 USD in San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience

  1. September 2007-Present: Google Inc. - Software Engineer III

    OpenSocial. Responsible for Google-wide deployment of OpenSocial as well as serving as a primary developer on the Apache Shindig project. Helped to write the OpenSocial gadget rendering and javascript library specifications. Deployed Google-wide shared infrastructure for OpenSocial, handling traffic for dozens of properties and hundreds of millions of users.

  2. December 2005-September 2007: Yahoo! Inc. - Technical Yahoo! (Software Engineer)

    Instant Messenger / Mobile. Designed and implemented Yahoo! Messenger web and mobile interfaces, web services, and infrastructure components using primarily PHP, C/C++, Javascript, and Flash 9.

  3. June 2005-July 2006: Families.com, LLC - Co-founder

    Responsible for all technology development within the company. Primary accomplishments include architecting and implementing a unified content management system, authentication mechanism, and APIs for integration with numerous applications, and management of technical staff locally and overseas.

  4. November 2004-December 2005: Adoption Media, LLC - Senior Web Developer.

    Overhauled company technical direction by implementing web standards and improving overall code quality. Worked on numerous internal tools,e-commerce, advertising systems, content management, and applications.

  5. December 2001-November 2004: Self-employment and freelance work.

    I performed mostly contract assignments and part-time technical work.

  6. June 1999-December 2001: Marksman Computer Systems - Developer.

    Designed and implemented point of sales systems for national deployment. Systems include inventory management, order entry, delivery dispatch and routing, and sales analysis.

Open Source and Standards

  1. OpenSocial
  2. Shindig - Reference implementation of the OpenSocial specification.

Relevant Technologies

Nearly a decade of experience with javascript, Java, C++, C, PHP, Python, C#, a pinch of Ruby and a dash of Perl. Oracle, MySQL, Linux, Solaris, etc.

Other fields of interest

3D rendering, artificial intelligence, optimization, and security.

Education

University of Toledo (Toledo, OH) - 01/1999-12/2003
Computer Science & Information Systems