Khamsouk Souvanlasy

Current

• Senior Ruby Developer at iProperty
• Part Time CTO at MonikerWear
• Freelance Programmer at Culture Byte

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Past

• Senior Manager, Applications Group at GulfNet Communications, Japan
• Systems Integration Consultant at Novell
• Senior Developer at Cambridge Technology Partners

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Education

• University of Melbourne

Connections

29 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My Blog

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Summary

Software Engineer with over 10 years experience developing successful desktop, server and web applications. Currently a Rubyist working on all facets of web application development.

A strong focus on meeting customer needs drives him to focus on usability, continually streamlining the development process, and embracing new frameworks and libraries.

Always on the lookout for interesting technology trends, he is currently playing around with Sproutcore as well as iPhone development.

Looking for contractor work or projects in the areas of Ruby on Rails, AJAX and Java technologies, Internet/Intranet, mobile phone or distributed applications.

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Specialties:

Programming in Ruby on Rails, Merb, AJAX,
Objective-C/iPhone, Java,
distributed applications, Internet/Intranet applications, online communities, directory services.

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Experience

• Senior Ruby Developer

  iProperty

  (Internet industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Currently the lead developer on real estate projects for iProperty. This role involves project estimation, software/technology decision making and coding using Ruby, Rails, Merb, and jQuery.
  
  Projects:
  - property/listings management serving over 400 real estate agencies in australia
  - real estate CMS powering over 300 websites and 6 property portals
  - intranets (blog, calendar/event management, document management)
  - social networking platform integrating with flickr, wordpress, twitter, youtube, and facebook

• Part Time CTO

  MonikerWear

  (Retail industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Partner in a start-up to bring wholesale tailored, custom men’s shirts to the web. Came up with some unique concepts in customising clothing online using an interactive Flash front-end and Ruby back-end to make it easy to choose from over 60 shirt options and over 100 fabrics

• Freelance Programmer

  Culture Byte

  (Internet industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Freelancer/Contractor developing standards based custom web applications.
  
  Interested in consulting and development work, or working with other entrepreneurs in a joint venture fashion, providing our technical services in exchange for a stake in the startup.
  
  Projects :
  - drinkmaven.com - cocktail recipe sharing community website with social networking features
  - AJAX/Ruby on Rails powered community forum, blogs, Email/SMS integration, and Google Maps integration.

• Senior Manager, Applications Group

  GulfNet Communications, Japan

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2002 — April 2006 (4 years 1 month)

  Lead developer/architect of the Applications Group building web and desktop software for the Japanese market.
  
  Projects:
  - Custom Intranet Groupware (web mail, forum, online file manager)
  - P2P distributed instant Messaging Server and Client
  - IE based tabbed and customisable Web Browser
  - Skylark food order system server and client, running at over 900 stores in Japan

• Systems Integration Consultant

  Novell

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NOVL; Internet industry)

  December 1997 — April 2002 (4 years 5 months)

  Technical Lead for the development of web applications using Java application servers, relational databases and search engines.
  Mentor and career coach to junior developers.
  
  Projects:
  - Australian Yellow and White Pages Online
  - University Portal

• Senior Developer

  Cambridge Technology Partners

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years )

  Design and development of several web applications.
  
  Projects:
  - Australian Yellow and White Pages Online
  - Call center implementation
  - Telstra B2B Extranet
  - Time tracking system

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Education

• University of Melbourne

  Bachelor of Engineering , Software , 1994 — 1997

Additional Information

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My Blog

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