Alan Kaplan
Senior Lecturer at Princeton University
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Kaplan is a Senior Lecturer and technology entrepreneur with over two decades of experience blending academic teaching, industrial R&D and startup product development in mobile and middleware platforms. He co-founded Drakontas, leading development of DragonForce, a secure, real-time mobile collaboration system for first responders and large teams, and previously headed middleware and software technologies at Panasonic’s research lab. At Princeton he jointly manages the university’s largest introductory CS course while supervising senior theses, demonstrating a rare combination of large-class pedagogy and hands-on mentorship. His career shows consistent leadership in setting technical vision, driving standards and forming international academic and industrial partnerships, with practical experience building cross-platform mobile and peer-to-peer systems. Based in New Jersey, he pairs deep research credentials (MS/PhD) with entrepreneurial grit and a focus on mission-critical collaboration technologies.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Duke UniversityUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cos316/COS316-Public
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Course materials for COS316
Contributions:40 commits, 41 pushes in 2 months
kaplana/java
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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