CTO at TeachStreet
Greater Seattle Area
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- CTO at TeachStreet
- Past
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- CEO/Co-Founder at MyPW
- CTO & Principal Developer at Spam Arrest
- Senior Programmer at VeriSign
- Programmer at Altrec
- Programmer at Medius Interactive
- Education
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- University of Maryland College Park
- University of Washington
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Daryn Nakhuda’s Summary
Daryn Nakhuda has been involved in the development and operations of highly-trafficked and highly-visible internet companies for over 10 years. Daryn was the lead engineer at Altrec.com, where he developed much of the infrastructure that is still in place today. Daryn then joined eNIC, the operator of the .CC top-level domain, where he was responsible for building key pieces of the registry and registrar platforms prior to the company's acquisition by VeriSign in September of 2001.
Most recently, Daryn was the CTO and principal developer of Spam Arrest, the well known anti-spam email service, and the CTO & Co-Founder of Eyejot, a web-based video messaging platform.
Daryn's professional career was the subject of a Wall Street Journal Online profile in 2005. Click below to read the article:
http://www.careerjournal.com/salaryhiring/industries/computers/20050616-waldman.html
Daryn Nakhuda’s Specialties:
Internet/web architecture and development, Ruby, Java, Perl, Flex, Actionscript, Spam, SMTP, IMAP/POP, DNS, MySQL, Postgresql,web 2.0, blogging, social media
Daryn Nakhuda’s Experience
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CTO
TeachStreet
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
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Senior Engineer
TeachStreet
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
October 2008 — June 2009 (9 months)
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Director of Engineering
Mixpo
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — September 2008 (6 months)
Mixpo is a turnkey, online video advertising platform, bringing sophisticated and accountable advertising solutions to millions of small and medium-sized local advertisers.
As the Director of Engineering, I am responsible for providing guidance and leadership to the development and operations teams, as well as providing hands-on contributions in areas of scaling and reliability. -
Co-Founder and CTO
Eyejot
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Eyejot is a web-based personal video messaging system, combining the benefits of email with the power of video. Eyejot was launched at the DEMO 07 conference in January of 2007.
As a founder and the CTO, I am responsible for all technical aspects of the platform, as well as helping shape the overall direction and focus of the company, and being a public face and evangelist for the platform at industry events and conferences.
Technologies Used: Java, Flex, Actionscript, Flash Media Server, Linux, MySQL -
CEO/Co-Founder
MyPW
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — November 2006 (3 months)
MyPW was a spinoff from Spam Arrest, whose goal was to provide access to hardware-based token authentication via a web service. I led the company through formation and early product and business development, including a launch at DEMOfall 2006.
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CTO & Principal Developer
Spam Arrest
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 7 months)
Spam Arrest is the leading challenge-response based anti-spam service. During my tenure, I led all aspects of Spam Arrest's software architecture and development, as well as technical operations, including building out our colocated server infrastructure, and later restructuring the platform to leverage Amazon Web Services including S3 and EC2.
Performance, reliability, and availability are the primary goals of the Spam Arrest sevice, which at its peak was in Alexa.com's top 1000 internet sites.
Technologies: Java, Javamail, JMS, Memcached, Linux, Mysql, Email Protocols (IMAP/POP3/SMTP). -
Senior Programmer
VeriSign
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 8 months)
Developed software to facilitate registry and registrar operations for several top level domains, including .CC. Some of my projects included:
* a private labelled domain reseller system
* a common registry interface enabling eNIC and resellers to connect to various disparate registries (HTTP,XML-RPC,RRP,EPP,SMTP, and custom protocols) via a single interface
* an rfc 2832-compliant registry-registrar-protocol (RRP) server, allowing .CC and other TLD registries to be accessed in the same manner as .COM. This project was completed in several weeks, with one other developer, using just the rfc and business rule documents from VeriSign as the design specification.
Technologies used: Perl, Java, MySQL, Linux, FreeBSD, DNS/BIND -
Programmer
Altrec
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 6 months)
Altrec is an online retailer of outdoor lifestyle products. As part of the early development team, I developed many of the systems and software still in use today, from core e-commerce components and website functionality, to backend applications for merchandising and production use.
* Ported prototype system from Perl/ePerl to Java Servlets
* Created custom templating system in Java, including support for cobranding and caching
* Integrated early web services from USPS to provide automated return label generation.
Technologies: Perl, Java, MS SQL, Linux -
Programmer
Medius Interactive
(Internet industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
Developed websites and applications for several high profile clients, including 3 MLB baseball teams and the American Basketball League.
The ABL league and team websites were the first major projects that I took the technical lead on; including designing the database backend, building the templating system and calendaring/statistics code, as well as an interface with a satellite wire feed.
Technologies: Perl, C++ (NSAPI/ISAPI), mSQL, Informix, IRIX, Linux, MS Access, Flash, Java
Daryn Nakhuda’s Education
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University of Maryland College Park
Chemistry, Computer Science 1994 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- College Park Scholars (Life Sciences)
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University of Washington
BA , Communications, New Media
- Activities and Societies:
- Mary Gates Scholar
