Kevin Nilson
BIO
Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Firm in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Assistant Organizer of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is also a core contributer for confetto.org, a web based real-time open source conference collaboration tool used at conferences such as: Silicon Valley Code Camp and Devoxx. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.
- Co-lead Silicon Valley Web Developer Java User Group
- Co-lead Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group
- Assistant Organizer Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup
- Taught 7 Courses College Of San Mateo
- Winner of MySpace Editor's Choice Award for project YumieDate, at Open Social Weekend Apps hosted at Google
- Currently Writing a book on Web 2.0
- Speaking at JavaOne, Community One, Tips and Trick on Running a User Group in Your Community
Presenting
- Scaling CometD to the Masses - Conference
