Ian McKellar

Rdio is developing a subscription music service that will provide a streamlined music consumption and discovery experience through a web browser and on mobile devices.

• Developed an Adobe AIR application to synchronize state between users' desktop media players and their online library.
• Wrote a Flash movie to handle reliable, secure music playback synchronized between multiple tabs and multiple browsers.
• Built JavaScript components for the AJAX web UI.
• Contributed to Rdio Django web application.
• Recruited and trained key teammembers.

POTI Inc is developing Songbird, an open source desktop media player that integrates web browsing, web services and broad media device support. Songbird is based on the Mozilla XULRunner platform and is written in C++ and JavaScript.

• Developed extension functionality including two of the most popular addons: iPod support and Last.fm integration.
• Implemented key user interface functionality including support for tabbed web browsing and the player sidebar.
• Designed and reviewed Songbird APIs and architecture.
• Presented at the GUADEC conference in Birmingham, UK on behalf of POTI.

Flock Inc. is building a new desktop web browser optimized for social networking and media sharing. Since it is based on Firefox, the Flock browser is developed using C++, JavaScript, and XML.

• Designed and developed the Flock bookmarking system, incorporating ideas from traditional bookmarks and social bookmarking, creating a feature which supports full-text bookmark search and sync with 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 on stage at OSCON 2005 in Portland and XTech 2006 in Amsterdam.

Danger developed the award winning Sidekick / hiptop smartphone. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.

• Maintained a Mozilla based server that provided transcoded web pages to Danger's hiptop smartphones. 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%.
• Developed the new web browser server, more than doubling the number of users that could be served using the same hardware. The new server delivered popular new features including JavaScript and CSS support while significantly lowering bandwidth usage.
• Contributed to some on-device Java applications including the web browser and ssh client.

Eazel was founded by alumni of Apple, Netscape, Sun and Be to develop the Nautilus file manager and associated web services for the GNOME desktop on Linux.

• Developed new WebDAV, HTTP, FTP, tar and zip support in Gnome VFS.
• Contributed to the Nautilus file manager, Eazel's software update service and Eazel's SOAP web services platform

HarvestRoad was a web site and software development startup headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. They developed high profile web sites for local companies and government agencies as well as producing highly successful document management systems.

• Worked with a graphic designer and an information architect to develop web sites for small businesses, large companies and government departments.
• Developed reusable content managment and ecommerce software in Perl, C and Java.

Travel

• Travelled around the world from May 2009 to July 2010 visiting the United States, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand with my wife.
• Worked on a variety of open source and personal projects including a JIT for Python regular expressions, a Python library for Flickr, NPAPI debugging tools and a full text indexer.
• Volunteered at a community center in East Jerusalem, helping with their LTSP and Ubuntu network

Open Source

• Contributed to many parts of the GNOME desktop including Nautilus, the Panel and Gnome VFS.
• Maintained Gnome VFS for about a year.
• In my roles at Danger, Flock and Songbird I worked with the Mozilla community to identify and fix bugs that affected our software.