Contributors
KeelFramework is of, for, and by its user/contributors. Regular users just contribute to the documentation, others contribute the either the code base, or by writing components that plug into KeelFramework.
Like to contribute more? Jump in, the water is fine.
- Santanu Dutt
Santanu Dutt works as a Senior Consultant at PlatinumSolutions. He has more than 7 years of experience in software design and development and specializes in Java and its related technologies.
He is a strong supporter of opensource software and have contributed to and used many opensource products. In the past 3 years he has successfully developed and deployed many projects using opensource tools, frameworks and databases. This is for both government agencies and private clients.
Mr.Dutt is J2EE savvy and has strong belief in Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. He can be reached at santanu.dutt@platinumsolutions.com
- Doug Warren
Doug Warren is a software architect with extensive experience in distributed systems, object technology, application design and development, and enterprise system integration. His current focus is service-oriented architecture and software reuse using Java, Web Services, and XML technologies.
Doug is the leader of the Web Services Java User Group, co-leader of PlanoJava, as well as active member and speaker with several Java groups in the Dallas area.
- Eliot Clingman
Eliot Clingman is a cofounder and EVP Software of AuditIntegrity, which automatically evaluates the accounting and governance practices of publicly traded companies. Open source J2EE software forms a large part of the AuditIntegrity system.
As an investment banker, he has a dozen years' experience in the mathematics of financial risk management and the implementation of financial software systems.
In the late 90s, Eliot worked with XML and FpML to centralize risk management for worldwide investment banks.
Prior to AuditIntegrity, Eliot focused on J2EE based software, completing an 18-month project as Lead Middle Tier Architect at the Protein Data Bank (PDB), which lead to a 5-year, non-compete funding increase of the PDB from the National Science Foundation.
- Eric Simmerman
Eric Simmerman is a computer engineer with eight years of professional experience building enterprise systems in the U.S. and abroad. He has most recently served as a lead architect and software engineer on projects in the energy & financial services sectors.
As an active proponent of Open Source Software, Eric contributes to various projects at Apache Group, Tempest Strings, and of course here on the Keel Meta-Framework.
- Jeffrey E. Richley
- Stephen Davidson
- Philip J Brown
- Derek Lane
Derek Lane is President and Chief Consultant of Gunslinger Software & Consulting, Inc., an exciting software development and consulting services company providing services to a range of clients from start-ups to Fortune 1000 corporations, specializing in new and emerging technologies and methodologies.
Derek is the Founder of the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for almost a decade in several Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas technology user groups.
Derek can on occasion be found utilizing his background in engineering, Virtual Reality and 3D graphics to think in 4 or more dimensions some of which have yet to be independently verified. When not exploring the mind numbing edge of technology, he can be found listening to Bluegrass music and watching old Kung Fu movies - a dangerous combination from any point of view.
- Chris Rauschuber
Chris is a software developer at Transplace in Plano, TX. He has 5 years of experience in Java development and former employers include Ericsson, Texas Instruments, and Frito Lay. He is a big believer in open-source software and started the JellyFish project to bridge the gap between Java and LDAP.
With a little luck, he expects to earn a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in May 2004. After that, he expects to have a lot more time for contributing to open-source projects.
- Ryan Thoma
Ryan has been working as a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, and Software Architect in the design and implementation of complex Internet based applications for over seven years.
His development project experience includes work on an extremely high-volume transactional lottery application (delivered via web, wireless devices, and telephone/interactive voice response in three languages), an online consumer loan application for GE Capital Financial, B2B extranet for a very large book/video wholesaler, intranet portal development, legacy enterprise integration, and most recently a financial analytics service that examines all US publicly traded companies.
- Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva is an experienced web developer, with over 4 years of commercial and open source software development experience using Java technologies. Daniel's work experience includes a variety of industries, including government/defense, tourism, restaurant, and health care management.
Daniel has a deep understanding of web application concepts/structures, and an ongoing interest in his own professional development in current and cutting-edge technologies. Daniel currently works as Consultant for PlatinumSolutions, Inc., and can be contacted at daniel.silva@platinumsolutions.com.
- Roberta Masciarelli
Roberta is our graphics contributor. As creator of the logo and the basic design of the site, she attempts to keep an otherwise code centric group viewable to outsiders.
You may find her impressive bio at her own site, Masciarelli Design
Founding Contributors
- Michael Nash
Lead Developer, Chief Architect, and author of entire initial Keel design as well as most of the initial code base.
President and founder of JGlobal Limited, a software development, support, training and research company based in Freeport, Grand Bahama. He was also the creator of the Expresso Web Application Framework and was the team lead for Expresso when it won the 2001 Java Community Award for Outstanding Group Technical Contribution to the Java Community. He is also the author of the book Java™ Frameworks & Components: Accelerate Your Web Application Development
Michael has worked with Java since its introduction and his development experience includes EIS systems for multi-national company intranet systems, development of web application systems for extremely large high-volume interactive internet sites, and international financial management applications, among others.
Currently Michael is developing a new line of web applications based on the Keel Meta-Framework (www.jglobal.com) as well as providing training and consulting services on a number of Open Source projects including Keel.
- Adam Rossi
Adam Rossi founded PlatinumSolutions, Inc. in 1999 after leaving a successful career as a senior consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC. Mr. Rossi has served as a lead architect and project manager for projects serving the financial services and insurance industries, manufacturing, telecom, and health care. More recently he has been involved in projects related to federal and state law enforcement, government agency collaboration, language services, and computer forensics.
Mr Rossi is a strong supporter of open source software, and has contributed code, documentation, and support to numerous open source projects.
PlatinumSolutions provides customized web application solutions and information management services. The firm is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and serves a client base located primarily in the Washington DC metro area. Key customers require custom web-based solutions that facilitate collaboration across agencies and business partners, securely and reliably. The company builds on a foundation of open, standards-based technologies that promote interoperability, flexibility, and choice.
- Shash Chatterjee
Shash is an electrical engineer, with his primary training and interest in signal processing and control systems.
Over half his careeer was spent on large-scale aerospace and defense systems working on system and embedded software for the space-shuttle to radar systems. The latter half of his career has been in telecommunications product development, leading and managing hardware and embedded software teams for high-speed fiber-optic multiplexers.
Shash went from FORTRAN, PL/1, C, C++ and every assembler you can think of, to Java almost as soon as Sun unleashed it. Being interested in server-side web development for a non-profit site, he was lucky to have stumbled on to the Expresso Open Source framework in 1999, eventually becoming a core contributor, and has been an Open Source junkie ever since.
- Pete Carapetyan
Chief Instigator, trouble maker and self appointed Keel Marketing Czar.
He attempts to keep the site focused, user experience simplified, and do as much of the infrastructure as possible to keep the ball rolling.
Also author and sponsor of webAppWriter, an Expresso tool which he hopes to port to Keel Framework sometime before Bill Gates runs out of cash.
In his normal life, Pete bangs out server side java code for a variety of commercial enterprises in the Dallas area as dataFundamentals, while attempting to keep up with his two teenage children. A hopelessly addicted jock, he can often be seen speeding his bicycle around White Rock Lake or jogging around the neighborhood.
