Walter Bell is a CTO at Ideal Prediction at Ideal Prediction. He possess expertise in java, c++, javascript, software development, ajax and 5 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I worked with Walt at his internship with Alexa in 1999/2000. He was assigned to use APIs I was building to make a chat client. This would have him working in a language he didn't know--Javascript--using APIs he hadn't seen and in an integration framework from Microsoft that still wasn't documented. After he had some time to play with the client API he was going to meet with some other developers to design the server. Well, I was running late with my API and Walt hates to sit idle. Rather than wait for me, he built the client entirely in Javascript--which he hadn't known when he started--in the IE sidebar--which wasn't documented. Since he had a client, he built the server--again using technologies he hadn't known when starting--to test it. He had this entire project, which was scheduled to take the Summer, done in two weeks. During this time he dropped in to ask me a few good questions and to discuss music. He's smart, fun, and great to work with.", "I came on to IA as a consultant to build a team to take over Walt's Javascript-based client application. He had done what seemed impossible: built a working, high-performace, multi-threaded client application entirely in Javascript, using extremely clever arrangements of visible and hidden components. The client received commands from the server in what was--at the time--an unprecedentedly clever and effective translation of XML into Javascript. When we moved this application to a C++ framework we were able to reuse Walt's screens with extremely little modification; mostly we added some glue code and then made changes as new features came in. Walt popped back to the client side to write the tricky multithreading in the server communication layer, converting that clever Javascript back into XML. Walt solves complex problems quickly. He grasps complex requirements quickly. And he proposes clever solutions that work. Super smart guy. He's also extremely fun to work with: sharp, quick, funny, laid-back, and an all-around good guy.", and "Walter is smart, hard-working, and fun to work with. He inherited some dreadfully tangled Java code, a real rats-nest, and managed to tame it. He also developed some very clever client-side Javascript techniques that anticipated the framework now known as Ajax. The company regarded these techniques as too valuable to share. If they had instead published them, Walter might now be as famous as Jesse James Garrett."