Core Infrastructure Team Lead at Digg
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Team Lead, Core Infrastructure at Digg
- Past
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- Developer/Creator/Main Ddude at Craig's Little Buddy
- Lead Developer/Director of Engineering at Fuzz Artists, Inc.
- Creator/Lead Developer at Blip.fm
- Founder at TheAwesomeList.com
- Software Engineer at Topix.net
- Software Engineer at Spoke Software
- Software Engineer at Bizfinity, Inc
- Engineering Manager at SoliSys
- Education
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- University of California, Davis
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Arin Sarkissian’s Summary
Software engineer... doing all sorts of fun web stuff.
Arin Sarkissian’s Specialties:
PHP, LAMP, ActionScript/Flex, MySql, Java (and related), product dev, PM stuff, HTML, CSS, Ajax, document data stores (couchdb, cassandra), 1/2 assed graphics, buying guitars
Arin Sarkissian’s Experience
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Team Lead, Core Infrastructure
Digg
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
Member of the core infrastructure team @ Digg working on stuff people won't see
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Developer/Creator/Main Ddude
Craig's Little Buddy
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 3 months)
I built a little web tool that helps folks search CraigsList more efficiently. It allows you to search multiple cities and has other value ads like the ability to sort results etc.
The site's a solo effort I took on just for fun but the fun gave way to nuisance as CL kept banning my server's IP. So, now the site's open source. code's on github @ http://tinyurl.com/craigslittlebuddy -
Lead Developer/Director of Engineering
Fuzz Artists, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)
First engineer at Fuzz. I wrote all the core infrastructure (OOP PHP/Mysql). I assembled and manage the engineering team while still writing tons of code & playing a core role in all product decisions.
Recently my team and I launched Blip.fm... dubbed by TechCrunch as "Twitter for Music" -
Creator/Lead Developer
Blip.fm
(Internet industry)
May 2008 — September 2008 (5 months)
Fuzz.com wasn't doing well... I'd just started using Twitter and couldn't stand Muxtape... With that perfect storm I came up with the idea for Blip.fm. The team and I built the site and people seem to be diggin' it
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Founder
TheAwesomeList.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 8 months)
RIP: the site is now offline. I'll revist it some day.
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TheAwesomeList.com is a cool site that me and 2 friends came up with the idea for.
The site was a social review site.
I was part of the team that came up with the idea. I designed the UI in Photoshop then wrote all the code to make it work. -
Software Engineer
Topix.net
(Privately Held; Animation industry)
May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Did a bunch of front-end work at Topix.
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Software Engineer
Spoke Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 2 months)
i did a lot of stuff there... one of the biggest projects was redoing the entire UI for the 2.0 launch...
other stuff i did:
salesforce integration
"invented" the search companion one bored night at 3am
redid various parts of the apps infrestructure
wrote an AOL IM Bot which led to a quick lil partnership w/ AIM -
Software Engineer
Bizfinity, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2001 — February 2003 (2 years)
hmmm ... this was a long time ago.
managed customer support for a while
did lots of sales engineering
some network admin stuff (oracle too)
a bunch of pro-serv
lots of web developement - ecommerce and internal tools
wrote lots of automation tools
played darts
ate burritos -
Engineering Manager
SoliSys
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 5 months)
i did a lot of stuff here. i worked here during college. i worked more than i went to class tho. easily put in at least 40 hr weeks. so i consider it a job not an internship
so here's the positions i held in order:
customer support
network admin (of the ISP)
software engineer
engineering manager
so i built the web development group there. hired everyone - fired a few dudes - wrote a lot of code (didnt jsut manage - i actually wrote entire systems)
Arin Sarkissian’s Education
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University of California, Davis
BS , Managerial Economics, Computer Science , September 1996 — December 2000
i didnt go to class much. most of what i learned that applies to the real world was while working at Solisys. that's where i got into web development and engineering.
but hey - i graduated and had a bunch of experience at the same time.- Activities and Societies:
- i drank a bunch and wrote code and skated a lot too
(sorry im not bored enough to take this seriously now)
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Arin Sarkissian’s Interests:
coffee, ipod, punk rock, buying guitars and basses, playing guitars and basses, kicking competitors' ass
Arin Sarkissian’s Honors:
i won the lottery
