Ken Krugler
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science and Engineering 1979-01-01 - 1983-01-01Work Experience
AI for Community
Current
AI for Community
Ververica | Original creators of Apache Flink®
Current
Ververica | Original creators of Apache Flink®
Scale Unlimited
Current
Scale Unlimited
The Apache Software Foundation
Current
The Apache Software Foundation
Apollo Fusion
2017-04-01 - 2018-12-01
Apollo Fusion
Sales Hero
2017-04-01 - 2017-12-01
Sales Hero
Datameer
2016-04-01 - 2017-07-01
Datameer
Krugle, Inc.
2005-09-01 - 2009-01-01
Krugle, Inc.
TransPac Software, Inc.
1987-01-01 - 2005-09-01
TransPac Software, Inc.
PalmSource, Inc. (formerly Palm, Inc.)
1997-01-01 - 2005-01-01
PalmSource, Inc. (formerly Palm, Inc.)
Skills
Summary
Founder of AI for Community, a nonprofit focused on teaching other nonprofits how to effectively and responsibly use AI. President of Scale Unlimited. Design, development and training for big data processing and search-based analytics problems, using Flink, Pinot, Cassandra, Solr and Elasticsearch. Apache Software Foundation member, committer for Tika open source content extraction toolkit. Co-founder of Krugle, Inc. Vertical/deep web crawling, source code parse/index/search. Helped build team, get funding, define product, manage development, close sales, and support customers. Acquired by Aragon Consulting Jan 2009. Co-founder of TransPac Software, Inc. Int'l software development at both the application and operating system level. Specialties: Big data processing, search-based analytics, web mining, text analysis, vertical crawl/search. Pinot, Flink, Solr, Elasticsearch, Lucene, Tika, product definition & project management, international software design, Java/C/C++, Linux/Mac OS, Far East text processing (Japanese, Chinese, Korean).
