Kevin Ballard

Note

I am not looking for a job at the moment.

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Computer Science, 2008

Open Source Contributions

• Author of several popular Cocoa freeware products, including Bonjour Browser and SafariSource.
• Former developer of popular open-source Cocoa projects Colloquy and Growl.
• Developer of open-source Cocoa libraries FontLabel and FeedParser.
• Base committer on the MacPorts project.
• Contributor to the distributed version control system Git.
• Prolific bundle committer for TextMate.
• Former contributor to the open-source language-agnostic RPC system Thrift.
• Former developer of open-source Ruby on Rails blog engine Typo.
• Developer and contributor of other open source projects, some of which are available at GitHub.

Employment

• 2009-present, Cocoa Engineer, Inkling, San Francisco, CA
  Cocoa Touch development
• 2009, iPhone Game Developer, Zynga Game Network, San Francisco, CA
  Developed several new versions of the popular Mafia Wars iPhone game.
• 2009, iPhone Contracting
  Took on independent iPhone contracting jobs, including developing the v1.1 version of the popular OpenTable iPhone application.
• 2008, Lead iPhone Developer, Context Optional, San Francisco, CA
  Developed the popular OpenTable iPhone application.
• 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 in Obj-C 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.
• 2000-2008, Sole Proprietor, 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.

Technical Skills

Languages

Objective-C/Cocoa, C, C++, Ruby, Haskell, Python, Tcl, Lisp, Scheme, F-Script, PHP, XHTML/CSS, XML/XPath/XSLT, SQL, shell scripting

Operating Systems

Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS 9

Miscellaneous

• WWDC 2004 Student Scholarship recipient