OStatic

Kord Campbell

I currently serve as Chief Evangelist at Splunk, where I help external developers leverage their domain experience and Splunk's indexing technology to develop applications in multiple IT related vertical markets. I also still manage and maintain Zoto, an Open Source photo hosting/management software and site that uses bleeding edge AJAX technology. Think iPhoto on the Web. In 1999, I started a distributed search engine crawler called Grub which I later sold to LookSmart. Grub was a software ahead of its time, as is now being illustrated by Wikia's new efforts with community search. Wikia purchased Grub from LookSmart in mid-2007. I’m a meat and potatoes guy - smart and simple is my philosophy. If I don’t know an answer to a question, I’ll admit as much and go find someone who does know, pick their brain, and figure out how that relates to the things I do know. If I know the answer, I’ll teach you what I know, and do it without hesitation.

Business planning and development, marketing, project planning, technology assessment, clustered and scalable server architectures, AJAX/Flash interface technologies, UI design, server administration, and various search engine technologies.

Chief Evangelist

San Francisco