About
Kenny Katzgrau is an East-coast software developer involved in a number of commercial and solo projects. He is known on the internet as the guy who wrote wpSearch, the lucene-based search plugin for Wordpress, and the PHP StandardAnalyzer, a sub-project of the former.
He is the architect of iVillage.com’s REST API, a former member of the Zype.com team, and a huge supporter of open and free software alternatives.
He is the developer and proprietor of Teaches.it, a classroom web page building service for teachers. Teaches.it currently has a happy, growing, customer base.
In 2008, he co-founded Zinkk Inc, which focused on the development of an engine for semantically tagging and grouping data from given sets of data scraped on the internet. The LinguistEngine, as it was called, was subsequently sold and the company was closed shortly thereafter.
Kenny works heavily in PHP, C#, and Java, although he uses Python and Ruby as his shell scripting languages of choice.
He is a former employee of LTech, the go-to consulting firm for business-oriented Google-cloud applications such as Google Power Panel.
While at LTech, he rewrote EmployOn.com’s extensive job search functionality using Lucene, bringing the search time across its 8 million job index from 30 seconds to a few milliseconds. He also wrote a generic, reusable single sign-on application for use with Google Apps. He has worked on projects for PayPal, Hess, and Corning.
He plays the ukulele, has too many math books, eats at this place a lot, and is strangely content writing code documentation for poorly documented projects. He is also a four-square monster.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Applied Mathematics.
