Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz

Web Technologist and Entrepreneur

Kānpur Area, India

Current
Past
  • Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc
  • Senior Architect at Mixercast (Nanocast R&D)
  • Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc.
  • Flex Team at Macromedia Inc (now Adobe Inc)
  • Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer at Macromedia
  • Lead Software Engineer at Tata Interactive Systems
  • Web Application Developer and Co-founder at Allies Interactive

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Education
  • Christ Church College, Kanpur, India
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya 2, Chakeri, Kanpur
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Abdul Qabiz’s Summary

I am a passionate self-taught computer programmer and have many years' experience in software development, specifically Adobe Flash Platform (flash/flex/air/flashlite) and web-technologies.

Allies Interactive Services: I am trying to use all my experience and potential to build a great team, culture, process, practices and products. I see myself working with a team which full of passion and innovation.
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Yahoo!: I had an opportunity to work on some platform components and Yahoo! Avatars, it was great experience to be among the best developers and to work on some of cool products/services.
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Mixercast: I had an opportunity and freedom to learn and contribute in different ways: platform-architecture, implementation of best flash-platform practices, startup-culture, venture-capital, building syndication engine based on standards like RSS(MediaRSS), suggesting/implementing new ideas and lot more.

I would say, working in a startup or in a startup like culture is a great experience, I would love to do it again and again.
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Macromedia/Adobe: It was a dream company for any passionate flash developer, I was no different. I ended up working here among the initial team for Bangalore centre.

I contributed in Flex SDK 1.5 and 2.0 releases. I contributed in two releases of Flex: 1.5 and 2.0.

I made very good friends and learned many professional and personal things, which help me everyday now. Totally great experience.
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In my role as full time entrepreneur, I am still a developer from heart but my experience over the years helps me learn new things and deal with challenges everyday.

As a programmer, I always believed - A good programmer always writes good code by making right choices and decisions. I want to solve complex problem with simplicity and work on applications, which provide great experience to users. To do that, I am up for doing whatever it takes.

Abdul Qabiz’s Specialties:

Web technologies, web strategy, internet, rich internet application (RIA), Adobe Flash Platform (flash/flex/air/flashLite and actionscript), web/online video strategy and implementation, software architecture, entrepreneurship, open-source, development process, startups, social media, branding and identity

ActionScript, Flash, Flex, AIR, FlashLite, JavaScript, PHP, Symfony, HTML, CSS, HTTP, CMS, CRM, Blogging, OpenSocial, Mashups, RIAs, Web Applications, Version Control Systems

Abdul Qabiz’s Experience

  • Cofounder & CTO

    Allies Interactive Services Pvt. Ltd.

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

    Allies Interactive Services, was established in 1998, is a web design and development company. It's core strength is in amazing graphics/web design and web-application development.

    I am one of the co-founders and currently looking after a lot of things, as all co-founders do in any startup. However, most of time I am focused on technology strategy, processes, practices team-building, business development and business-positioning.

    This is my second stint at this company, after my first stint I moved out to learn things, get exposure and get connected to smart people. All with a plan to get back, when I am ready.

    I realize, it was great decision and now I am in better position to help taking Allies Interactive Services to a different level, where we not only do great stuff but also prove that we can do great things from anywhere, even cities like Kanpur.

    At Allies, we want to be an innovative and technology oriented company. My role is to make sure, we work on things to achieve this.

  • Manager - Flex India Group

    Manager - Flex India Group

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

    Manage Group Activities
    - Moderating new messages
    - Moderating new members
    - Actively participating in discussions
    - Discussing and coming up with new community development ideas

  • Senior Web Developer

    Yahoo! Inc

    (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!.

  • Senior Architect

    Mixercast (Nanocast R&D)

    (Computer Software industry)

    May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    - Frontend RIA architecture
    - Syndication-Engine (idea to implementation)
    - Unofficial product-manager
    - Evangelize
    - Of course, individual contributor and owner of various pieces (Mixercast Player, some of core framework classes and libraries, etc)

  • Web Developer

    Yahoo! Inc.

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Computer Software industry)

    February 2006 — April 2006 (3 months)

  • Flex Team

    Macromedia Inc (now Adobe Inc)

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

    August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  • Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

    Macromedia

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Tata Interactive Systems

    (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.

  • Web Application Developer and Co-founder

    Allies Interactive

    (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 :)

Abdul Qabiz’s Education

  • Christ Church College, Kanpur, India

    B.Sc , Maths, Physics , 1998 — 2002

  • Kendriya Vidyalaya 2, Chakeri, Kanpur

Additional Information

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Abdul Qabiz’s Interests:

economics, technologies, science, maths, physics, music, social work, photography, bikes

Abdul Qabiz’s Groups:

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

  •    Adobe Alumni
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    symfony
  •    Technical Recruitment
  •    Eclipse
  •    Six Sigma for Business
  •    Papervision3D
  •    Flex addict
  •    YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS
  •    IMM 2.0 - Intelligent Mobile Marketing (+10000 members) Join now!
  •    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
  •    Flex-India.org
  •    India Leadership Network
  •    Consulting Network - http://consultingnetwork.co.in
  •    (E-)learning network
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    Startup Specialists Forum
  •    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
  •    On Device Portal Consortium
  •    Adobe Flex Developers
  •    Adobe AIR Developers
  •    User Interface and User Experience Professional
  •    PureMVC Developers
  •    User Experience
  •    Community Builder
  •    Internet of Things
  •    Adobe Flash Media Server Developers
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    Design Research
  •    TATA Alumni
  •    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
  •    Adobe Gurus
  •    R & D Group
  •    R/GA
  •    Flash Coders
  •    Adobe Flash Group
  •    Information Design
  •    Flex Developers India
  •    Adobe Flex Experts
  •    97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
  •    Adobe Flash Platform Leaders & Architects

Abdul Qabiz’s Honors:

Interviewed by Shashank Tiwari for OnJavaBlogs - http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/03/adobe_flex_gaining_ground_in_i.html

Interviewed by ActionScriptHero - http://www.actionscripthero.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=135:abdul-qabiz&catid=37:interviews&Itemid=63

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.

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