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Kaj Kandler

Kaj Kandler

(he/him)
Pronounced "/kai/ - Kaj (rhymes with sky)"

I make people famous on Google

Entrepreneur & Digital Persona Optimization Expert at Entity Garden

BerlinGermany🇩🇪
Open to
Speaking engagementsContract roles
Preferred workplace
Remote (worldwide)
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Kaj Kandler is an expert in digital persona optimization. Mr. Kandler optimizes digital personas for coaches and public speakers.

Mr. Kandler elevates their digital persona through clarity and consistency of message. He helps public personas build a brand that search engines understand.

Search engines like Google Search will recognize consistent information as factual. Google shows a rich knowledge panel for the brand based on factual information.

"In an age of search, a well-known digital persona is an essential tool for personal branding"

  • Kaj Kandler

Career: 9

Entity Garden

Berlin, Germany

Jan 2024 - Present

Educating Google with consistent information about notable people.

When Google recognizes consistent information, it will recognize it as factual.

Given enough factual information and notability, Google will show Knowledge Panels in the search results for the brand name.

Services provided:

  • Providing Brand Entity audits
  • 1:1 Coaching for Personal Branding
  • Brand Entity Monitoring

NewStore, Inc.

Berlin Area, Germany

Apr 2016 - Jun 2021

Managed up to three teams, a total of 11 software engineers.

  • Developed the documentation for the new platform from the ground up
  • Shaped product development for APIs
  • Managed full stack development teams for mobile checkout and payments
  • Responsible for people development and hiring new team members

Black Duck Software, Inc.

Burlington, MA

Oct 2008 - Mar 2016
  • Managed a team of 4 software developers
  • Created integrations between Black Duck's products and various tools in the software development process, such as
  • continuous Integration systems,
  • IDEs, or
  • dashboards
  • Responsible for 10+ integration products Furthermore responsible for architecting and implementing a scalable SAAS front end for the Black Duck Knowledge Base in the Cloud.

Conficio

Melrose, Massachusetts, United States

Jan 2003 - Dec 2008
  • Developed a video based system for software documentation and help
  • Optimized for low Internet bandwith
  • Optimized for low effort to create and edit videos
  • Evangelized and marketed the product
  • Developed software based on Wordpress and Joomla

Black Duck Software, Inc.

Burlington, MA

Nov 2006 - Sep 2008

Performed professional services for clients of Black Duck Software

  • Analyzed source code for evidence of published third party software
  • Engagements were often preparations for major distribution deals, venture capital investments or merger and acquisition events

OATSystems, a division of Checkpoint Systems

Waltham, MA

Jun 2005 - Apr 2006

Provided professional services for RFID solutions

  • Implemented customer specific scenarios based on OAT System's RFID middleware
  • Customized workflow and framework for clients
  • Implemented successfully with customers in Brazil and Europe

Skyva International, LLC

Cambridge, MA

Jan 1997 - Sep 2002
  • Managed functional testing, performance testing, concurrency testing
  • Planned and managed release schedule for the business application framework
  • Managed projects for custom applications All software was Multi-User, Client-Server and Java based. Co-developed patented business application framework.

SAP Technology, Inc.

Foster City, CA

Jul 1996 - Dec 1996
  • Provided Development Support for US Customers.
  • Built a new team for US specific development of the Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) component of SAP R/3

SAP AG

Waldorf, Gemany

Sep 1990 - Jun 1996

ABAP IV and C development, Training, Consulting.

  • Developed multiple releases of graphical scheduling and planning boards for production planning
  • in discrete manufacturing and
  • in process industries (modules PP, PP-PI)
  • Trained pilot customers on the new components
  • Consulted customers and partners on implementation projects
  • Architected and implemented new module "Environment, Safety & Health" (EH&S) for the process industry

Projects: 6

plan-b-for-openoffice.org/index

Jan 2003 - Dec 2017

Learning software through recorded screen videos is most effective and efficient.

Plan-B makes videos for all features of an application, not just some basic introduction. This project demonstrates how to use this technique in a comprehensive manner.

blackducksoftware.com/vulnerability-plugin

Jun 2015 - Apr 2016

This plug-in enables you to: Integrate with free-style jobs and Maven jobs in Jenkins, Support Maven and Gradle build environments. Map Maven GAVs to open source software found in the build to Components/Versions from the “Black Duck KnowledgeBase” metadata, Create a report highlighting known vulnerabilities reported against the open source software components found in the build.

blackducksoftware.com/products

Sep 2014 - Apr 2016

This plugin automates the code scan with Black Duck Hub to discover open source and manage security risk and vulnerabilities. The Black Duck Hub helps software development organizations to identify and mitigate open source related risks across application portfolios.

blackducksoftware.com/products

Aug 2013 - Apr 2016

This plugin automates the code scan with Black Duck Protex to discover open source and manage obligations and conflicts with the Black Duck Suite, an Open Source governance solution.

Nov 2010 - Dec 2013

Black Duck® Code Sight™ is a search engine for source code. It is scalable, syntax-specific (43 languages) and can be used to search personal codebases, team codebases, and Enterprise-wide code repositories.

blackducksoftware.com/products

This Jenkins plugin automates the request of components in BD Code Center, which are used in a Maven or Gradle build. This automation makes the Open Source Governance process always current and streamlined.

Skills: 38

Other

agileAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementChange ManagementCloud ComputingCoaching & MentoringConsultingEnterprise Software
EntrepreneurshipIntegrationJavaKnowledge Graph OptimizationLeadershipManagementManagement ConsultingNatural Language Processing (NLP)Open SourceOpen Source LicensingPeople DevelopmentPeople ManagementPersonal BrandingProduct ManagementProject ManagementSalesSchema MarkupScrumSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Software Architectural DesignSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering PracticesSoftware Project ManagementSoftware Quality AssuranceSoftware Solution DevelopmentSoftware TestingTechnical SEOTestingWeb Applications

Credentials: 8

Feb 2025 - Feb 2027

Data Science Bootcamp

WBS CODING SCHOOL

Jan 2023

Statistics Foundations: 2

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy

Oct 2022

Statistics Foundations 1

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy

Oct 2022
Oct 2022

Education: 2

Diplom

1982 - 1990

Thesis work at the Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (FZI).

Activities / Societies: Fachschaft for Informatik

Gutenbergschule Wiesbaden

German Highschool Diploma (Abitur)

1976 - 1982

Involvement: 1

Volunteering

Treasurer for Races

Oct 2006 - Oct 2015

The MRC organizes annually the Melrose Run for Women, 3.5 mi road race on Mothersday, and the Assault on Mt Hood, 3.5 mi cross country race, second Saturday in December.

Languages: 2

English(Native or bilingual)
German(Native or bilingual)

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