Chief Architect at Yahoo!
Greater Seattle Area
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- Chief Architect at Yahoo!
- Past
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- Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, Corp
- Software Architect at BSQUARE Corp
- Software Engineer at Adage US
- Software Engineer at Symantec
- Education
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- Northeastern University
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Steve Makofsky’s Summary
Development on Mac, Windows, Linux, Embedded and Mobile (including iPhone), Web, C, C++, Objective-C, Java, C#, Javascript, PHP, HTML, XML
Steve Makofsky’s Experience
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Chief Architect
Yahoo!
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
I'm a chief architect on the Technical Product and Strategy team where we evaluate and define technologies, products, and platforms, potential acquisitions, explore third-party partnerships, and connect the dots across the company.
Our team also opened and staffed the new Yahoo! Bellevue office, and created the recently announced Y!OS (Yahoo! Open Strategy). -
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft, Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — February 2007 (3 years 11 months)
Engineer on the Windows Platform Incubation team which was responsible for the development of Windows Calendar, Windows Sidebar and other projects that shipped in Windows Vista.
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Software Architect
BSQUARE Corp
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1997 — February 2003 (5 years 4 months)
Responsible for the research and development of emerging technologies that were designed to run on Windows embedded and mobile platforms, including 'bUSEFUL' which was a suite of 10 utility applications, and was finalist in the “Best of Comdex” awards in 1998 and 1999 for “Best Utility”.
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Software Engineer
Adage US
(Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Architect of an HTML-based template server which allowed web browsers access to a proprietary document
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Software Engineer
Symantec
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Managed a team of QA engineers on Enterprise Developer versions 1.0 thru 2.1, developed a high-level interface wrapper to the Winsock API and designed a high-level interface wrapper to VBX/OCX controls including support for Lotus VIM and MAPI.
Steve Makofsky’s Education
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Northeastern University
1989 — 1994
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