Kevin Ballard's Résumé

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Computer Science, 2008

Author of several popular Cocoa freeware products, including Bonjour Browser and SafariSource.
Base committer on the MacPorts project.
Contributor to open-source language-agnostic RPC system Thrift.
Prolific bundle committer for TextMate.
Former developer of open-source Ruby on Rails blog engine Typo.
Former developer of popular open-source Cocoa projects Colloquy and Growl.
Involved in the development of a few other Cocoa projects, including SSHKeychain.
Developer and contributor of other open source projects, some of which are available at GitHub.

2008, Intern, Rapleaf, San Francisco, CA:
Rewrote a significant part of the Thrift ruby libraries and implemented a fair, non-blocking server for Thrift.
2007, Performance Tools Intern, Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA:
Developed a new garbage collection analysis instrument for Instruments.
2005-2006, Technical Intern, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA:
Developed and shipped a ground-up Cocoa rewrite of the new Yahoo! Messenger client on small (2-3 person) team.
2000-Present, Sole Proprieter, Tildesoft, Concord, MA:
Performed Cocoa contracting work. Contracts include:
- April 2008, GrabUp:
  Developed GrabUp, a utility for zero-click screen capture sharing.
- March 2008, Lance Design:
  Developed the Cocoa version of CueMan, an application that interfaces with the Lance Design TDC-100 Disk Controller.
- November 2004, Cliché Software:
  Located and fixed a show-stopping bug for a ready-to-ship Cocoa application.
- June 2004, TrippMedia:
  Implemented a comprehensive integrated update/install system for TrippMedia's Coding Process Xcelerator.
2003, QA Intern, REAL Software, Austin, TX:
Tested and verified incoming bug reports and fixes and managed the online bug database.

Languages: Objective-C/Cocoa, C, C++, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, OCaml, Python, Tcl, Lisp, Scheme, F-Script, R, PHP, XHTML/CSS, XML/XPath/XSLT, SQL, shell scripting
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS 9