Summary
Kimberlie Skandis is the founder and President of Skandis Systems International with 25+ years of software engineering experience specializing in internationalization and Unicode enablement across Windows, Linux, Unix and mobile platforms. She has led global projects for financial institutions, industrial and medical vendors, and enterprise web systems, delivering secure, localized solutions and ongoing technical support for complex production environments. Technically versatile, Kimberlie combines low-level systems experience (COBOL, assembler, C/C++) with modern stacks (Java, .NET, mobile, web) and a broad tooling background in testing, CI and version control. Her work uniquely bridges linguistics and engineering—she holds graduate training in linguistics and formerly translated technical Japanese—informing deep expertise in double-byte, bi-directional and Asian encodings. Recently she contributed Android wearable and Bluetooth integration fixes to the open-source xDrip-plus project, reflecting hands-on mobile development and a continued interest in health-related tooling. Based in Eastchester, NY, she brings entrepreneurial leadership and rare cross-cultural technical fluency to international software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Michigan
Masters Program, Linguistics, Masters Program, Linguistics at New York University
English, Japanese