Dev Purkayastha

Current

• Freelance Web Developer at Independent

Past

• Web Developer at Auburn Quad
• Director of Technology at Sconex
• Web Developer at Sconex

• Web Developer at BzzAgent
• Software Developer at Liquid Machines

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Education

• Harvard University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Dev Purkayastha’s Summary

Web developer with a passion for emerging technologies and new ideas.

Dev Purkayastha’s Specialties:

Scalable web engineering. Social networks and social software.

Languages: Ruby (including Ruby on Rails), PHP, Javascript (including JQuery and Prototype), Perl, Java.

Other technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcache, SOLR.

Dev Purkayastha’s Experience

• Freelance Web Developer

  Independent

  (Internet industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

• Web Developer

  Auburn Quad

  (Fund-Raising industry)

  July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)

  Web development for online community fundraising software. The primary client, ActBlue, has used the software to raise over $80 million for Democrats since 2004.

• Director of Technology

  Sconex

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — July 2008 (2 years )

  Launched SugarLoot.com, a social networking site based on contests.
  Development for Sconex.com, a social networking site for high school students.

• Web Developer

  Sconex

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)

  Web development for a fast-growing social networking site geared towards the youth market.

• Web Developer

  BzzAgent

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  Development of the web application the powers BzzAgent, a word-of-mouth marketing company. The site interacts with tens of thousands of our users daily.

• Software Developer

  Liquid Machines

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  Development of encryption plugin software in a Windows environment.

Dev Purkayastha’s Education

• Harvard University

  A.B. , Computer Science , 2000 — 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, Harvard Computer Society, Harvard Civil Liberties Union, Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice

Additional Information

Dev Purkayastha’s Websites:

• My Website

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