
.NET, Widgets, Web 2.0 & beyond
Bangladesh

.NET, Widgets, Web 2.0 & beyond
Bangladesh
Tanzim Saqib is a Senior Developer, who spent half of his life on software and worked for many companies like #1 .NET controls and CMS provider Telerik Inc (http://www.Telerik.com), #1 personalized Web 2.0 start-page like Pageflakes (http://www.Pageflakes.com) (acquired by LiveUniverse). He developed many projects ranging from banking solutions for Citibank, HSBC, Wamu, Wells Fargo etc. to Paperless Virtual University (http://www.aiub.edu). He is industry’s earliest and leading widget developer and as know as "Widget Master" to his peers.
He is a preacher of Microsoft technologies. While he jams with the latest additions to .NET, in his spare time he blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/TanzimSaqib, maintains his personal website http://www.TanzimSaqib.com, leads .NET Research group (http://DotNetBD.org). writes articles.
He is an easy going, fun loving, and passionate technology individual who is open to any kind of business opportunity and professional relationship. He currently lives in Bangladesh, but travels anywhere in the world on professional demand.
.NET, Microsoft, Web 2.0, Innovation, Technology, SaaS, PaaS, Mashups, Startups, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Wiling to relocate, ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, Web 2.0, C#, SOA, Widgets, Mashups, SQL Server, LINQ, Volta, MVC, eXtreme Programming, Agile, Scrum, Sprint, RUP
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (9 months)
World's #1 .NET controls vendor and CMS provider. Working there on their next generation ASP.NET AJAX Prometheus controls.
http://www.Telerik.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Pageflakes is a leading player in the rapidly-growing personalized startpage space. At www.Pageflakes.com, the company provides a convenient one-stop access-point to a user's favourite internet applications and content such as blogs, news feeds, Del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos and numerous other web services and applications. Since its beta launch in February 2006, Pageflakes has been adding new features at record speed. Unique to Pageflakes, users can then collaborate on their page with friends, or publish it to the entire world.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Developed industry’s state of the art Web 2.0 widgets and Mashups.
• Architected a sophisticated and highly scalable one-of-a-kind cross browser AJAX Web Application Test Automation framework which can simulate user’s activities on any kind of web application.
• Exhibited excellence in making of richer user experience and performance tuning.
• Conducted training sessions and provided technical support to the developers.
(Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)
Virtual University makes it possible for students to study courses over the web without leaving the comfort of their own home. Administrators can administer courses, teachers, students and query about performance of employees as well as students using the web site. Students can access necessary information of his own e.g. Grades, CGPA, Class Routine etc. Virtual university brings the entire university within everyone’s range no matter where they are.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Developed a complete paperless university solution using Microsoft .NET technology. This integrated Web + Smart Client + Mobile solution includes course registration, grade upload from home, advanced class notes, accounts, collaboration among students and teachers.
• Designed a live, reliable support system for nearly 5000 students and 300 faculties every day.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
PCi Corporation offers a family of industry-standard software tools with accompanying data sets that are used by financial institutions and regulatory authorities to analyze customer loan applications and portfolios. PCi uses an extensive testing regimen on all of its software products, which meet the standards required by its US government contracts with regulatory agencies.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Worked as consultant in several outsourced projects developed for large clients including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, HSBC, Federal Reserved Bank, CitiBank, WAMU etc.
• Performed extensive development using Visual Basic, .NET 1.1, Service Oriented Applications based on XML Web Service.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Software Engineering, 2003 — 2007
Listening to music, watching National Geography, writing technical articles. Article: 7 ways to do Performance Optimization of ASP.NET 3.5 Web 2.0 portal http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/ SevenWaysToDoPerformanceOptimizationOfAnASPNET35Web20Portal.aspx Article: Building a Volta Control : A Flickr Widget (recommended by Microsoft Volta team) http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/BuildingAVoltaControlAFlickrWidget.aspx Article: ASP.NET AJAX Best Practices http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/AspNetAjaxBestPractices.aspx
.NET Research
Recommended by Microsoft Volta team: http://labs.live.com/volta/blog
"Youngest ACM UVa Online Programming Contest problemsetter" on earth when I was only 18 back in 2003.