Carl W. Haynes III, Software Engineer

zulily, Seattle, WA
Sr. Software Engineer
04/2010 - 06/2014

Second engineer hired
Helped the company grow to a billion dollars in revenue and thousands of employees, exiting with an IPO
Wrote original set of tools to integrate with email provider to send millions of emails each day
Primary role revolved around backend catalog management, including tools to input thousands of skus a day
Helped architect and build large backend system, used by Merchandising, Studio and Copy departments as a critical part of their jobs.
Provided support for system, often available 24 hours a day to help
Worked on bringing international platform up and running and supported merchandising team in London, spent time in London working with team there
Technologies used included: PHP, redis, mongodb, MySql, Java

Tivo, Alviso, CA
Member of Technical Staff
11/2004 - 02/2006 & 01/2007 - 04/2010

Kiva, Kampala, Uganda
Chief Scientist
3/2006 - 11/2006

Motorola, Mountain View, CA
Sr. Software Engineer
3/2004 - 11/2004

Worked on the UI framework for Motorola's next generation cell phones
UI was written from scratch on top of linux using Eclipse's SWT Toolkit
Provided support to teams in China and Brazil who were writing applications on top of the UI
Technologies used: Java, SWT

Washington Mutual, Seattle, WA
Sr. Software Engineer
3/2003 - 12/2003

Contract work with team tasked with company wide-software deployment
Worked on web-based workflow tool to deploy and manage software on every computer at Washington Mutual
Used Marimba's toolset (that I helped write) for the software management
Technologies used: PHP, Java, Marimba

Logictier, San Francisco, CA
Lead Software Engineer
4/2000 - 5/2001

Marimba, Mountain View, CA
Software Engineer

Marimba was a high profile company started by some of the people who developed the Java language at Sun
Primary engineer for the user interface of Marimba's end-user product, the Castanet Tuner.
Created many of the early sample applications for the Castanet platform.
Worked closely with customers to make them successful when writing for the Castanet platform.
Wrote many of the original widgets for Bongo application (a user interface design tool).
Worked on project which monitored web site traffic and displayed information via jsp pages.
Very early employee, one of the first five hired.

Starwave, Seattle, WA
Software Engineer

Worked extensively with perl and java.
Wrote the first java applets deployed on Starwave's web sites, including applets for espn.com, nfl.com and mrshowbiz.com.
Wrote server side applications to generate content for Starwave's web sites, using wire feeds (sports scores) and database access.
Very early employee, the first engineer hired to write java applets.