Supermind Consulting

What I can do for you

My passion is building crawlers and search engines. In particular, I specialize in building vertical search engines like Indeed.com, Homethinking.com and Properazzi.com (all companies I've worked with).

Depending on what you need to launch your product successfully, I can

  • architect
  • code
  • mentor
  • train

What tools I use

Lucene and Nutch primarily.

I like simplicity and often find myself using PHP for basic web GUIs, or WebWork and Hibernate if the web application is more involved.

What my clients think of my work

Kelvin is an extremely productive thinker with deep domain knowledge in search technology. His swiftness, combined with a commitment to complete tasks on a very short deadline ensured that our project was accelerated by months. I would unequivocally recommend him to anyone undergoing a project related to search technology.
Niki Scevak, Founder and CEO
Homethinking.com




Kelvin is a mature developer with very good communication, teamwork, and organizational skills. His code is clean and solid. He's a particularly good asset to startups, as he's worked in many of them already and knows the culture well.
Yannick Laclau, Founder and CEO
Properazzi.com




Kelvin Tan was a valuable contributor to the Maya's Mom site, specifically our search product. The site wouldn't be what it is without him. Kelvin worked quickly, communicated well and exceeded every milestone and task we had. Kelvin's insight and expert knowledge allowed him to take the lead on refactoring and improving our search, giving us new features and abilities. We're grateful for finding him.
Marcus Kazmierczak, VP Engineering
Mayasmom.com




I've reached out to Kelvin for assistance many times when we could not solve a problem. Every time Kelvin has quickly isolated the issue and provided a working solution. Simply put, Kelvin has always come to the rescue when we called!
Joel Macaluso, SVP Product Development
Zetainteractive.com




Think we might be able to work together?

If you have a project which could use some help, drop me a line at .

I'm always happy to hear from people even if they're calling to pick my brains. My schedule does tend to be pretty full, but I might be able to refer someone your way who can help.
08/22/08 | Kelvin Tan | Lucene Vertical Search Consultant

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