Micah Dubinko

Current

• Lead Engineer at Mark Logic

Past

• Principal Engineer, Next-generation Search at Yahoo! Inc.
• Mobile Web Solutions Architect at Yahoo!
• Principal Consultant at Brain Attic

• Senior Engineer at Verity
• Senior Engineer at Cardiff Software
• Specification Editor at W3C
• Software Engineer at Biosensor
• Software Engineer at G-Soft, Inc.

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Micah Dubinko’s Summary

Experienced Software and Information Architect, with a history of developing and shipping new products from the ground up.

Experience leading technical editing of an international standard (W3C XForms). O'Reilly author. Over fourteen years of experience in the software industry, designing and shipping multiple major releases of software in use worldwide. Special emphasis on XML technologies including XForms, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, Relax NG, and related technologies. Contributor and originator of multiple open source projects. Special interest in personal information management, mobile, and "web of data" applications.

Micah Dubinko’s Specialties:

Product design and architecture, open source, product management, process management, XML, XSLT, XForms, XQuery, REST, XRX, CSS, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, Ajax, C++, Java, Python. Open source. Public speaking. Writing.

Micah Dubinko’s Experience

• Lead Engineer

  Mark Logic

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  I work with the MarkLogic Server team, making it easier to write great apps on top of the powerful core engine, covering aspects of content repositories, structured search, and all things XML.

• Principal Engineer, Next-generation Search

  Yahoo! Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year)

  Imagining, specifying, prototyping, developing, and evangelizing next-generation web search experiences leveraging the full and unique capabilities available within Yahoo!
  
  Primary author of the dataRSS specification (embedding RDFa in RSS and Atom syndication format), and co-designer of Yahoo! SearchMonkey.

• Mobile Web Solutions Architect

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 10 months)

  I make Yahoo! work on phones and similar tiny web browsers.

• Principal Consultant

  Brain Attic

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2004 — August 2005 (1 year)

  Technical consulting for web forms, XForms, and information overload. Clients include IBM, Verity, Snapbridge, and Netfile.

• Senior Engineer

  Verity

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — October 2004 (6 years 5 months)

  C++/MFC Engineering on TELEform, the flagship product at time of hire.
  
  Product Manager for eForms, working with the AudienceOne group, an acquisition.
  
  Spearheaded W3C membership and XML projects throughout the company, including XForms editorial work. Wrote the first version of XML support in all product lines.
  
  Helped develop and implement a second flagship product, LiquidOffice, a full-service eForms solution, including prototyping, specification development, and consensus-building.
  
  In the pre-AJAX era, conceived and implemented a replacement for Acrobat PDF forms using XSLT, JavaScript, absolute positioning, CSS, and graceful degradation. The same framework also enabled Microsoft InfoPath compatibility.
  
  Frequent public speaker and writer.

• Senior Engineer

  Cardiff Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — March 2004 (5 years 10 months)

  Cardiff, acquired by Verity (see above)

• Specification Editor

  W3C

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — March 2004 (4 years 1 month)

  Consensus-building among a team of highly intelligent, highly opinionated participants from multiple companies.

• Software Engineer

  Biosensor

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

  Ported a 50 KLOC DOS program to Windows. Implemented USB device drivers on 8051-based hardware.

• Software Engineer

  G-Soft, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1995 — July 1997 (2 years 4 months)

  Wrote assembly language, C, and C++ code. Implemented a multitasking communications server capable of 16 simultaneous ZMODEM transfers over serial ports.

Additional Information

Micah Dubinko’s Websites:

• My Blog

Micah Dubinko’s Groups:

O'Reilly author, BJCP

•    Python Community
•    Yahoo!
•    Yahoo Alums
•    Functional Programming
•    Verity alumni
•    Semantic Web
•    Linked Data Web
•    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
•    BJCP - Beer Judge Certification Program
•    XQuery Network
•    XRX Web Application Architecture
•    Cardiff Alumni
•    Marklogic User Community
•    XML-in-Practice

Micah Dubinko’s Honors:

Yahoo! "Go to Town" award, 2006
InfoWorld Innovators 2004 Award
CompTIA Certified Document Imaging Architech
IBM Certified Developer, XML and Related Technologies

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