I'm a passionate creative technologist that has been solving problems for people with:
- Computers since 88 (BBC 2Mhz, 16KB RAM, Amstrad CPC 6128 128kb RAM)
- Internet since 94 (Apple Mac, 9600 baud, FirstNet? University of East Anglia UK, spoke at UK wide technology leaders summit about future use of internet at 15),
- Multimedia since Windows 95
- Intranets/web since 96 (my school, Nortel)
- Semantic since 02 (Southamption University, RDF structures, compliance reg content)
- AI / Search since 05, NLP entity extraction. Trained neural net on structured names in multiple languages to ensure name detection in real time indexed daily news articles. Globally load balanced with physical compute pre-vps era.
- Web 2 since 06 (Ruby/JS/Rails/Java), everyone wanted JS autocomplete LOL.
- Mobile since 07 (Responsice web, Objective-C, Swift), on the go applications utilizing mobile hardware benefits, GPS, kiosk based applications, camera reporting, just never games.
- Business since 08 / Agency, SaaS, Product.
- Mentorship since 09 / 1-1s
- Leadership since 11 / CEO
- Exec Leadership since 18 / CTO / Director of Eng
- Return to Multimedia 24 - https://patreon.com/kalvdev
I've had the pleasure to work at some great companies and with wonderful people. Here are the highlights that I'm proud and thankful for so far:
- Shopify as a Director of Engineering.
- Founded Holopod.
- Co-founded Brewhouse where I created Goodbits.
- Created vanruby.org.
- Co-founded GoFreeRange
- Led Information Retrieval Computer Science (What people call AI today) at Complinet which was acquired by Thomson Reuter
- There are a numnber of other people, teams and companies that I've had the pleasure to work with that I will list out in time.
In 2024, I've returned to my love of multimedia, specifically sound. Researching and concepting innovations for musicians, sound engineers, producers, content creators. My projects are for supporters only on Patreon.
Listen to some of public studio session shares over on Soundcloud.
I post some snippets of my photography and music to Instagram.
I sometimes post to X, but I prioritize Threads cause of the promise to be open with mastodon.