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Since August, 2008, I have been a Software Developer at AMA Capital in Los Angeles, CA. AMA is a hedge fund which develops software for automated trading systems in the off-exchange foreign currency market.
From March, 2008 to July, 2008, I was a Software Engineer at Intentional Software in Bellevue, WA. Intentional Software is developing a novel language and workbench to better capture the intentions of both domain experts and programmers. Two good sources of information about the company are a Technology Review article and their OOPSLA 2006 paper.
From July, 2006 to March 2008, I developed core back-end functionality at Palantir Technologies. Palantir is a Palo Alto, CA-based start-up with two separate data visualization and analysis products: one for intelligence analysts, and another for macro hedge funds. Even though I've now moved on, I still believe that they have a great opportunity to succeed. It is enterprise software, and it is 100% Java, but if that interests you, I would recommend checking them out. From a business perspective, I know that they are doing very well, and that their main bottleneck right now is finding the right candidates to hire.
From February, 2005 to July, 2006, I was a Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. I worked on a system that monitored millions of competitor offerings across hundreds of competitors, and that surfaced the data internally through both a service and a website. I also helped to deliver the Pre-Order Price Guarantee feature.