Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn
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- Sr Software Engineer at LinkedIn
- Senior Software Eng at IBM Almaden Research Center
- Software Eng. at IBM Haifa Research Labs
- Officer at IDF
- Education
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- Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
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Eishay Smith’s Summary
Specializing in J2EE (and Java in general). Experienced with open source platforms (Tomcat, Jetty, OSGi, Spring, MySQL, Lucene) along with commercial ones (Websphere, Oracle).
Current work focused on highly scalable web applications. News harvesting, scraping, searching and offline classification.
In the past I focused in the Healthcare vertical and was an Eclipse Committer in the Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) project.
See the "Publications" link for some of the articles, talks, key notes, etc, I gave.
Eishay Smith’s Specialties:
Java (Server Side)
Eishay Smith’s Experience
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Principal Software Engineer
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (3 months)
Doing the news feature back-end. Harvesting news, crawling for nore sources, ranking and classifying them, removing duplications, scaling up the system, serving search results.
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Sr Software Engineer
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
August 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Doing cool stuff with Java server side technology in LinkedIn's CDN group (Content Distribution and Networks). As the group name suggests I'm working on distributing the content to targeted groups in the largest professional network on the web. Currently my main interest in harvesting and delivering news articles and other content to the right LinkedIn members. Massive crawling and indexing news articles and using Lucene search engine for real time search and offline news classifications.
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Senior Software Eng
IBM Almaden Research Center
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Lead Almaden's Eclipse OHF Activity. Lead and architect of the HSB (Healthcare Service Bus).
Mentored two Extreme Blue projects. The first one created the OHF Bridge which is part of the OHF open source and is being used by many ISVs. The second is the HSB which is a first of a kind Healthcare Service Bus.
Few of the Conferences presented at:
* [Keynote] "FOSS for Healthcare: Progress and Promise", Houston, April 07
* "EclipseCon 2007", Santa Clara, March 07
* "Southern California Linux Expo", LA, Feb 07
* Cal-RHIO "Open Source Forum", SF, Nov 06
* "Eclipse Summit Europe", Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 06
* "ICMCC", The Hague, The Netherlands, June 06 -
Software Eng.
IBM Haifa Research Labs
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
March 1999 — July 2005 (6 years 5 months)
Software Eng. Working on misc projects in:
* Healthcare (DICOM, Content managment)
* Server side infrastructure (Embedding PHP in Websphere Core), SOAP to SLEE bridge
* Communication (Unification messages from Telephony, Mail, fax, SMS, etc)
* Pervasive devices (J2ME)
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Officer
IDF
(Defense & Space industry)
November 1992 — October 1996 (4 years)
Eishay Smith’s Education
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Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
Software Eng 1996 — 2001
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Eishay Smith’s Interests:
Jave, J2EE, Scalability, Software Development, Social Networks, Healthcare, Open Source, Eclipse OHF, IHE, GTD, Mind Mapping, Mac OSX, Investing, Reading (software, economics, social behavior), Bike (road/mountains), Running
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