Ian McKellar

POTI Inc is developing Songbird, the world's first web player. It tightly integrates the web browsing and media playback experience. Songbird aims to liberate both fans and content owners from the proprietary silos that currently dominate the digital media space while providing the best user experience for consuming media on the web and interacting with all portable media devices.

• Re-architected and rewrote Songbird's service pane to be scalable and extensible by extension developers.
• Introduced tabbed web browsing into the Songbird user experience.

Flock Inc. is building a new desktop web browser based on Mozilla Firefox to encourage online social interaction including blogging, social bookmarking, media sharing, and social networking. Like Firefox, the Flock browser is developed using C++, JavaScript, and XML.

• Designed and developed the Flock bookmarking system, incorporating ideas from traditional browser bookmarking systems and social bookmarking systems, creating a feature which supports full-text bookmark indexing and synchronization with online social bookmarking services.
• Created a library which transparently maps objects between JavaScript and RDF, allowing Flock to quickly prototype and develop new features.
• Discovered, diagnosed, and fixed security holes in the Flock browser.
• Lead performance diagnostics and tuning efforts. Built profiling and reporting tools, significantly improving browser start time.
• Worked with other companies to integrate their services with the Flock browser's features.
• Contributed bug fixes and patches to the up-stream Mozilla project on behalf of Flock.
• Represented Flock at several technical conferences, participating in a panel on the Mozilla platform at OSCON 2005 in Portland and presenting a paper on web browser user interfaces at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam.

• Maintained a Mozilla based server that provides transcoded web pages to Danger's hiptop wireless device. This consisted of over 3 million lines of third-party C++.
• Extended that server, adding features such as color image support, localized messages, support for non-latin languages, and protocol improvements that improved reliability and reduced bandwidth needs by 30%.
• Liaised with the Mozilla community on behalf of Danger.
• Developed the Mozilla component of Danger's new browser server, an embedded Mozilla instance with a headless front-end which is able to lay out HTML content for display on a hand-held device using the device's own widget and font metrics.
• Designed much of Danger's new browser server architecture to allow more scalability and reliability.
• Developed debugging and monitoring tools in Python.
• Implemented GTK+ front-ends to some of the in-house development tools.
• Contributed to some on-device Java applications including the web browser and ssh client.

• Developed client-side implementation of WebDAV based network file storage API for the Nautilus file manager and the GNOME desktop environment.
• Wrote the client-side portions of Eazel's software update service and contributed to the server.
• Designed and developed Eazel's web services delivery platform using Python, XML-RPC, SOAP, and GTK+.
• Contributed to the Nautilus file manager and developed several Bonobo based Nautilus views.
• As a contractor for Eazel during 2000, I worked on aspects of Gnome VFS including WebDAV, FTP, tar, and zip support.

• Developed Java Servlet based electronic commerce application server using XML and XSL for user interface generation and database access.
• Built interactive HTML and CGI web pages and sites using Perl, C, and PHP with graphic designers and other programmers.
• Developed web based document management and web site maintenance systems.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Linux, IRIX, Digital Unix, and Solaris servers.
• Evangelized Linux within the company and ported Harvestroad products from IRIX.

The GNOME Project

• Contributed to many parts of the GNOME desktop including Nautilus, the Panel and, Gnome VFS.
• Developed HTTP (WebDAV) and FTP implementation for Gnome VFS.
• Maintained Gnome VFS for about a year.
• Developed a GIMP plug-in to allow simple visual creation of Sawfish themes.
• Participated actively on bugzilla, mailing lists, and IRC.