Omar AL Zabir

Current

Co-founder & CTO at Pageflakes Ltd.

Past

Head of Ideas at Somewhere in... Net Ltd
Lead Software Architect at Orion Technologies
Lead Software Development Team at American International University-Bangladesh

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Education

American International University-Bangladesh

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Industry

Computer Software

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Omar AL Zabir’s Summary

I am a Technology Entrepreneur.

I founded Pageflakes (www.pageflakes.com), a social personalized web 2.0 Start Page, with my friend Christoph Janz. Pageflakes has been acquired by LiveUniverse which is founded by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan.

Currently heading the development team spread in USA and Bangladesh and working as Cheif Technology Officer of Pageflakes.

I have 14 years of experience in Software Development mostly on Smart Clients and Web based applications. My previous works include projects for Bank of America, US Federal Reserve Bank, Hewlett-Packerd US, CitiBank, Wellsfargo, PMTC etc.

Besides professional work, I write articles in MSDN and Code Project, run open source projects and write Web 2.0 technology books.

I am a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from Bangladesh.

Omar AL Zabir’s Specialties:

Web 2.0 + AJAX web applications
High performance scalable web applications
Smart Client in .NET
Software Architecture
Production troubleshooting, performance and scalability

Omar AL Zabir’s Experience

Co-founder & CTO

Pageflakes Ltd.

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

October 2005 — Present (3 years)

Design and implement Software and Hardware Architecture. Lead engineering team. Develop core features of the product including the Home page, AJAX client side, Widget API and framework. Performance and Scalability improvement. Run production environment. Head operations in Bangladesh and Malaysia.
Head of Ideas

Somewhere in... Net Ltd

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

August 2005 — June 2006 (11 months)

I headed the development teams at the company. My primary role was to design software architecture, requirement analysis, project planning and lead the development team towards successful implementation of the projects. My teams were diverse - one working for Escenic, Norway - a Java based Content Management System, one working for telecom companies for developing mobile application, one working on several R&D projects in .NET for mobile commerce development in Bangladesh.
Lead Software Architect

Orion Technologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1998 — September 2005 (7 years 1 month)

Started as a Lead Developer to build four products for PCi Corporation, Boston that are being used by prominent banks in USA including HSBC, CitiBank, WAMU, WellsFargo, Federal Reserved Bank. In 2002, promoted to Lead Software Architect - overseeing software and hardware architecture of the seven products being developed at the Company and lead the R&D team.
Lead Software Development Team

American International University-Bangladesh

(Research industry)

January 2002 — September 2005 (3 years 9 months)

Head the software development team in IT department. Build the first ever Enterprise .NET solution in Bangladesh that runs the Administration, Accounts, Student and Teacher collaboration, Registration on the web.