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Benjamin Kudria

Engineer at Quid, CS/Math student at Stony Brook. http://ben.kudria.net/about

Headline: Engineer
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://ben.kudria.net
Industries: Computing, Entertainment, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Nanotech, Retail, Travel
Skills: Computer Engineering, Database Administration, Databases, Design, Engineering, English, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Russian, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web design, Web Development, Writing
Location: New York
Groups: South Park Portfolio Competition, SV Factor
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company
Tags: Internet, kudria, linux, mysql, php, ruby, unix, web
Schools: State University of New York System - Stony Brook

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Stony Brook University, AMS Department
Position: System Administrator
Time period: January 2008 - Present
Description: The Applied Math and Statistics (AMS) Department at Stony Brook University is responsible for maintaining and administering two of the University's clusters: the Galaxy Parallel Computing Project and the Seawulf Cluster. Both clusters are managed by a team of undergraduate administrators.

Employer: The New York Times
Position: Technical Intern
Time period: June 2008 - July 2008

Employer: Game Face Web Design
Position: System Administrator and Web Developer
Time period: July 2005 - September 2007
Description: Game Face Web Design is a small web development agency in Kingston, New York, with an emphasis on supporting local small businesses and organizations, and expertise in custom PHP websites, attractive, usable, and accessible designs using HTML and CSS, and custom Drupal hosting and configuration. Game Face provides web design, development, hosting and email hosting for it's clients.
Achievements:
• Designed, upgraded, maintained, and customized multi-site Drupal 4 and a Drupal 5 installs, serving approximately 40 dynamic database-driven Drupal websites.
• Maintained a FreeBSD web and database server for approximately 50 web hosting clients and their approximately 70 websites.
• Created, themed, and configured 15 custom Drupal websites with HTML and CSS, using Drupal's PHPTemplate themeing engine.
• Created and maintained approximately 10 custom PHP websites.

EDUCATION

University: State University of New York System - Stony Brook
Time period: 2006 - 2010
Degree: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, BSc

INFORMATION

Clubs: Linux User's Group @ Stony Brook

Benjamin's Startups (1)

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  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

Benjamin is Following (19)

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  • Cloudera

    Bringing Big Data to the Enterprise with Hadoop.

  • Freebase

    Structured database of information searchable by API.

  • Gilt Groupe

    Headquartered in New York, Gilt Groupe(www

  • Nabbr

    Nabbr is a distributed media company delivering premium video entertainment content across the social web

Benjamin's Contacts (16)

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  • Rebeca Hwang

    Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.

  • Dian Rosanti

    Born & raised in Jakarta, getting an HCI degree at Stanford, living the dream in San Francisco, and gradually becoming a startup junkie at YouNoodle!

  • Torsten Kolind

    An ambitious entrepreneur disguised as a comfortable Dane.

  • Kenneth Walker

    Living in the SF Bay and working on expanding CollegePostings nationwide.