
Founder & Chief Technology Wizard @ Astrails Ltd. (http://astrails.com)
Israel

Founder & Chief Technology Wizard @ Astrails Ltd. (http://astrails.com)
Israel
I've done it all at one time or another.
Programming professionally since 1992.
Current area of expertise is 'all things internet' with latest focus on Ruby on Rails, Linux, deployment/operations and scaling.
Founded a consulting company with a couple of friends.
Preferred 'weapons': Linux, MySQL, Ruby on Rails
But also worked with Asm (x86/Arm/MIPS), Pascal, Java, C++, C, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Lisp, Erlang, Haskel
Experience in security, networks, Linux (from kernel drivers to administration), databases, embedded/real time (Linux, Windriver),
web standards, REST, SEO.
*proper* production deployment, scalability and performance.
Bring it on, it is a very good chance I can help you with whatever you are doing right now.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
We can help you with:
rapid prototyping
product design and architecture
code review and refactoring
deployment and scalability
usability assessment
Ruby and Rails tutoring
product development from idea to a working site
making a strategic decision whether ruby/rails is your cup of beer :)
general all around consulting
making the sun rise
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 3 months)
With the company from the day 0.
Designed and implemented the original proof of concept server and sizable parts of the production server.
Designed and implemented the company IT infrastructure, deployment etc.
Lead the R&D of the company from the idea to the live site with tens of thousands of users. Intimately involved with anything and everything R&D/IT related.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
September 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 10 months)
- Platforms team: BSP and driver development for Linux,
- Tools team: Automation tools development,
multiarch toolchains, automated regression testing system
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
2001 — September 2001 (less than a year)
Development of fast IPC library.
Development of Automated Regression Testing Server
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Desktop Team: OCX, MediaPlayer DirectShow plugins, inhouse common libraries, Multimedia visualization components for PlayJ.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
(Re) Implemented the company's core banner serving server,
drastically improving performance & reducing memory footprint.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NETM; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Emerging Technologies Team:
= Next generation ZMail
- designed and implemented user management, plugin management, and secure hierarchical data management components in C++
= Java application server and framework for internal distributed applications.
- designed and implemented library for 'C++ to Java' object oriented communication (DDL->C++/Java compiler in Python)