
Web/RIA Developer and Entrepreneur
India

Web/RIA Developer and Entrepreneur
India
I am a passionate self-taught computer programmer. I have developed expertise in ActionScript and Adobe Flash Platform (flex/flash/air), since I fell in love with ActionScript and Flash Player in 1999/2000.
Over the years, I have developed eLearning applications, web-games, desktop-applications, rich-internet-application, components, libraries, web-applications using open-source as well as proprietary technologies.
I spent more than an year working for a startup (Mixercast), where I was Senior Architect for mixercast platform, which has a lot of Flash/ActionScript as frontend. It's good to work at startup, I learnt a lot about venture-capital, funding and importantly startup-culture, which is fun.
I contributed in various other ways, be it pushing for standards, better usable interfaces or coming up with new features and implementing single handedly, one of such feature was syndication, feed aggregation/creation/consumption for widgets. I extensively worked with RSS, Media RSS and various other syndication formats/standards.
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I have worked for Macromedia (now Adobe) in Flex SDK team. I was part of Quality Assurance team.
Following is a brief/short list of languages/technology/platforms/domains, I have been involved with:-
Web Applications, Rich Internet Applications, ActionScript, Flash, Flex, Adobe Integrated Runtime, HTTP, C, C++, VB, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, JSP, Servlets, Cold Fusion, Flash Media Server (RTMP), Flash Remoting (AMF), Red5, Internet Audio/Video Streaming, Collaboration applications (whiteboard, wiki etc), HTML, CSS, SQL, mySQL, MSSQL, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Windows, Linux, MacOSX.
I have worked with different programming methodologies and i believe, good programmer write good code by making right choices which are efficient, scalable, extensible and maintainable.
+ ActionScript (all versions) and Flash Platform (Flash, Flex, AIR, FlashLite) - More than eight years experience.
+ Web technologies - HTTP, Web/internet architecture
+ User (experience) focus
+ Entrepreneurship
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)
I worked on some projects in this short tenure at Yahoo!, which is an amazing company to work for. One of the projects, I was involved with for most of the time, was Yahoo! Avatars.
I spent time working on Adobe Flash/Flex, PHP, AJAX, etc. I learnt a lot of things, which is truly inspiring and one can only learn by working at companies like Yahoo!.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)
I am doing lots of things here from taking care of front-end architecture to contributing in user-interaction model, backend stuff.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — April 2006 (3 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 6 months)
Lead Flash Application developer responsible for making eLearning applications, Flash games, simulations, solving problems, creating eLearning frameworks.
(Internet industry)
May 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 11 months)
Functionally did lot of things like, programming, web development, mentoring team, talking to clients, analysing user-requirements, architecting projects, solving problems and managing a part of company's day to day stuff :)
B.Sc, Maths, Physics, 1998 — 2002
economics, technologies, science, maths, physics, music, social work, photography, bikes
indiammug@yahoogroups.com, flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com, flex_india@googlegroups.com, igeeks@yahoogroups.com, Silverlight Community, FlashLite Community, rss-media community, Barcamp
Award from Macromedia India for my activities in Flexcoders mailing list.
First Prize for the best RIA in FlashClash contest by ZDNet-India and Macromedia.
Second Prize at national level for my science project(Automatic Grain Protection Shutter), a working model of an unique idea of protecting grains in grain storages from rodents, humidity etc.