Developer Spotlight

Nagendra Koilada

Nagendra is located in Bangalore, India. Nagendra is a graduate from BITS-Pilani University. His interest lies in Open Source Programming. He works as web based applications developer.

Professional Areas include: PHP, Java, Web based application development. Nagendra is an active developer of TikiWiki. He is currently working on the TikiWiki-Kaltura integration.

Alan Quigley

Application Designer/Developer.
Alan is located in Dublin, Ireland. Alan's background is in Animation and graphic design. For the last 4 years he been focusing on Rich internet application development using Flash and the Flex framework.
Professional areas include: Graphic Design, AS3, Adobe Flex, Application development.
Alan is currently developing ShotClip.com (Click to read more) - a Kaltura based online Video wizard which combines videographer know-how with video editing know-how in one easy to use application.

Cormac McGuire

Application Designer/Developer
Cormac is located in Cork, Ireland.
Cormac is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of technology.
Cormac has spent the last three years developing web based applications for a variety of clients, with a focus on Human Rights based NGOs.
Professional areas include: PHP, Java, GWT, Systems Programming Web based application development and Drupal.
Comrac is currently developing ShotClip.com (Click to read more) - a Kaltura based online Video wizard which combines videographer know-how with video editing know-how in one easy to use application.

Chris Hocking

Despite his youngish appearance, Chris Hocking has been working in the entertainment industry for many years. He started off as an animatronics technician, touring around the globe from the age of 15, and after finishing high school moved into live event production and lighting design. After working on hundreds of productions in both Australia and internationally, he went back to school studying Film & Television at University. During his studies he worked on countless unpaid productions as well as many professional feature films, video clips, television shows and commercials in a wide range of technical roles. He has since completed his studies as is now working full time in the film industry. Chris is extremely excited about the possibility of blending traditional cinema with new media – hence his interest in Kaltura. Chris has been an active member on the Kaltura Developer Forums, and is especially interested in helping people get their heads around the Kaltura API and expanding the PHP Library.

Michael Dale

Michael is a Research Associate at University of California Santa Cruz. Last year Michael worked on embed video for MediaWiki in Google summer of code 2006. Michael has been involved in open media adoption on the web, participating in the FOMS conference and pushing for open media in browsers.

Michael is also in to the Metavid project - an archive of congressional proceedings which indexes house and senate footage via close captions and OCR on nameplates. Metavid makes all this data and audio/video files available in their entirety with entirely free and open source software. In the last few months Michael has been working on re-building Metavid as an extension to the MediaWiki platform and combining it with Kaltura's technology to create a collaborative video solution for MediaWiki that is fully based on Free and Open Source technologies.

Ivan Vergés

Ivan is a GNU/Linux user/administrator and PHP & JavaScript programmer. He's highly enthusiastic about open source and works as a programmer for web sites and projects in the open source network.

Ivan is also the main developer of the Kaltura Plugin for Elgg. A few months back Ivan and his colleague Aram López Roca were developing a social site based on Elgg, and needed to integrate video into the project. One of the most important requirements was to create collaborative online TV. The Kaltura stack, which included some great collaborative features, and also the ability to tweak the functionality, exactly fit the need. A Kaltura plugin for WordPress was already out there, but there wasn't one for Elgg - so Ivan set out to create it based on Kaltura's technology. The next step is working with the community to fix bugs and add more features.