Gabe Kangas's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Gabe is a startup founder, mobile engineer, API junky and builder of things.

Gabe is a startup founder, mobile engineer, API junky and builder of things.

In the corporate realm he has inhabited the cubes as a senior unix systems administrator, web developer and operations lead.

Since 2011 he's been focused on iOS development.

He was the founder of Hollrback, a data exchange and management platform utilizing mobile to allow people to create and manage contact information based on the event and context in which they met.

• Top 8 finalist in TechStars'​ 2011 "Startup Madness"​ tournament.

http://angel.co/hollrback

He was also the developer of popular project PandoraFM, featured in tech blogs such as TechCrunch and magazines such as PC World as one of “The Web's Most Useful Sites.”

Some personal projects, past and present:

• TheCabin Mobile (iOS)

- An IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for the iPhone.

http://appstore.com/thecabinmobile

• node-internet-radio

- A Node.js module to get metadata from internet radio streams.

https://github.com/gabek/node-internet-radio

• The Bat Player for AppleTV and Roku

- Allows you to listen to your favorite internet radio stations and discover new music through your AppleTV or Roku. Displays contextual metadata about artists and albums while controlling your Philips Hue lighting to expand the look and feel of what's on the screen to your physical environment.Senior Software Engineer, iOS @ From June 2014 until August 2015 worked on features on the Rdio clients for iOS and Android utilizing the Xamarin framework in C#.

Lead mobile engineer on Rdio Live, a project to bring live radio to Rdio launched in August 2015.

Currently focusing on the next generation of the Rdio playback pipeline in Objective-c and Swift. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Lead Mobile Developer @ Sole developer of the TastemakerX client on iOS.

Worked with our visual designer to design a clean, simple to use, and user-focused product that allows users to manage, view, and listen to TastemakerX.

Met with Apple evangelists periodically to go over design and implementation suggestions.

Acquired by Rdio in June, 2014. From April 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 3 months) Mobile Software Developer @ From February 2012 to April 2013 (1 year 3 months) Founder @ Founder of a company to do my part in giving context to new relationships; professional and personal.

• Architect of the Web application, mobile platforms and API.

• Decision maker regarding the technical direction of the company.

• Company reached the top 8 in TechStars' 2011 "March Startup Madness" tournament. From January 2010 to March 2012 (2 years 3 months) Mobile Solutions Engineer @ First member of development team to create iOS apps for CRi's solutions business. Worked extensively with interfacing client APIs to mobile applications. From March 2011 to February 2012 (1 year) Contractor/Consultant @ Developing the applications to power the ideas of local businesses. From November 2009 to February 2011 (1 year 4 months) Developer/Administrator @ Developer for the DispatchThis scheduling web application and admin for unix servers powering it. From November 2009 to July 2010 (9 months) Systems Administrator @ Member of a cross-platform team that manages primarily web servers, sendmail, and F5 load balancers for the entire enterprise. From October 2008 to November 2009 (1 year 2 months) Senior Systems Administrator @ From April 2007 to October 2008 (1 year 7 months) Infrastructure Consultant @ Consulting positions via the firm at the following locations:

CenterPost Communications

• Full time at the location from 11/2004 until acquired by West Notifications Group 05/07.

• 24x7x365 support rotation.

• Administration, implementation and continued maintenance of Windows and Linux based servers.

• Planning and implementation of new hardware solutions.

• Developed an automated server rollout system for deploying additional hardware efficiently.

• Responsibility of increasing the efficiency of the many automated delivery channels to clients. This includes fax, voice phone, email, text messages, instant messengers, and proprietary networked message systems for enterprise clients.

Nuveen Investments

• Full time at the location from 06/2002 through 11/2004.

• Operations and support roles.

Claymore Securities

• Introduced new Windows Server 2003 servers into environment.

• Administration of backup environment.

• Development and implementation of new disaster recovery plans.

• Support and maintenance of all servers and workstations.

• Research and implementation of web filtering and enterprise client policy management software.

• Deployed RIM Blackberry Services.

Cochran and Caronia Securities LLC

• Support and maintenance of all environment hardware including workstations, servers, and network equipment.

• Research, implementation and continued support of off-site disaster recovery solution.

Art Book Binders of America

• Administration of Linux servers within the environment.

• Development and implementation of automation for disk image creation and cd burning.

• Member of team that migrated to consulting firm from in-house.

Ignite USA

• Support and maintenance of all server, desktop, and network hardware.

Gozdecki & Del Guidice

• Brand new build-out of environment including deployment of Exchange 2003 Server, and all client workstations. From January 2004 to April 2007 (3 years 4 months) Consultant @ Consultant for TEKsystems. Roles included

• Full time consulting role at IBM Global Services as a Unix administrator for the eBusiness hosting center. Supported colocation facility clients by being on site support. Supported the internal IBM unix infrastructure for the location.

• Full time consulting role to Oronova, Inc at Nuveen Investments in the Operations and support teams. From March 2000 to January 2004 (3 years 11 months) Web Developer @ Management and development of the Wickes, Inc web page. Developed in ColdFusion. From September 1999 to March 2000 (7 months) Field Support Technician @ Support and administration of remote unix servers located at each store. While in school it was a summer position only. From June 1997 to September 1999 (2 years 4 months) Gabe Kangas is skilled in: SQL, JavaScript, XML, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Ruby, Endorsements, LinkedIn, jQuery, Mobile Devices, Mobile Applications, Web Applications, Windows Server, Web Services, Unix, Management, Networking, Web Development, Linux