Senior Technical Architect at ShipServ
London, United Kingdom
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- Senior Technical Architect at ShipServ
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- Technical Lead: Science and Analytics at Imagini
- Technical Architect at Totally Communications Ltd
- Owner at Portalive Network
- Application Designer at Bottomline Technologies Europe
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Dave Starling’s Summary
I’m a Senior Technical Architect at ShipServ, designing and developing the next-generation platform for the leading marine eMarketplace. Previously, I spent two years as technical lead for Imagini, an internet startup, developing their recommendation engine technology alongside the proprietary VisualDNA technology. I also spent 5 years at Totally Communications as Technical Architect, developing bespoke systems for a variety of clients.
I have extensive experience in project delivery, with 5 years experience in auditing business processes with a view to translating these to a working technology platform, as well as 9+ years of web development experience, including managing and mentoring other developers.
Prior to my commercial career I owned a gaming website network, and developed and ran several large game community networks for some of the early MMORPG games, and later adopted as official community sites by Electronic Arts and Westwood Studios.
I am very quick to learn new concepts and technologies, and able to look at ideas from business and technical perspectives, and very keen to work outside my comfort zone.
I have a great understanding of current and emerging internet technologies, and the impact they potentially have, as well as social and community networking.
Dave Starling’s Specialties:
Recommendation and optimisation technologies, location-based services and GIS, neural networks and machine learning, high-traffic scalability and availability optimisations, MySQL/Memcached integration and other caching technologies, OOP concepts, MVC Framworks (CakePHP, Symfony, Zend), PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (inc. jquery, Prototype, YUI), AJAX, XML-RPC, Memcached, Apache, Linux, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, SEO, Mass-email marketing
Dave Starling’s Experience
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Senior Technical Architect
ShipServ
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
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Technical Lead: Science and Analytics
Imagini
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 8 months)
Started with development of Youniverse.com - a social networking site based around Imagini's VisualDNA quizzes. Involved in concept development, resource pipelining, design, development and optimisation of databases and code for high-traffic loads, managing the Youniverse.com development team, as well as other strategies within Imagini.
Promoted to Technical Lead for Science and Analytics, to examine and implement new technologies and methodologies to improve the connection of VisualDNA to third-parties and enabling highly-relevant content recommendations.
Imagini recently launched the VisualDNA Shops product, available at http://shops.visualdna.com. Shops is a widget that allows site-owners to view enhanced analytics data about their audience, as well as monetising through affiliate networks such as Amazon. -
Technical Architect
Totally Communications Ltd
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 6 months)
Development of large-scale, bespoke web applications for high-profile clients using the latest “Web 2.0” technologies. Involved in the complete product life-cycle, including requirements capture and documentation, functional specifications, analysis of client business needs, database development, design and implementation, as well as ongoing development and support work.
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Owner
Portalive Network
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2006 (7 years)
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Application Designer
Bottomline Technologies Europe
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; EPAY; Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 4 months)
