My in between jobs status won’t last for long as I’ll be starting a new job in a few days. My previous employer was acquired by a large firm (about 5000 people) over two years ago, and even though I had a nice working place (with regards to colleges and projects), I felt I needed to push myself by taking up a challenge and to learn new stuff.
So I’ll be working at Kalooga, a small start-up company involved in gallery search. “We” spider the web for collections of pictures, analyze them (by content, text, links, or anything that’s relevant) and enable publishers to show them in widgets on their own sites. This allows publishers to easily decorate their electronic publications with up-to-date, relevant visual content.
The upcoming year, we’ll work on the quality of search results, deal with the unavoidable scaling issues (half a billion pictures is quite a bit) and make sure our clients are well served with usable back-end applications & API’s. The job combines the domain Artificial Intelligence with some challenging web stuff (scaling with a cloud, Services, etc) and I think my background & experience will come well at hand. I’m looking forward to it!