Gabor Ratky

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at EPAM

Past

• Software Design Engineer / Consultant at All Media Guide
• Software Design Engineer at MoodLogic, Inc.
• Software Design Engineer at LyricsAMP (Self-employed)

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Education

• Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
• Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
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Gabor Ratky’s Summary

Gabor Ratky’s Specialties:

.NET 2.0/3.5, C# 2.0/3.0, ASP.NET WebForms/MVC, WPF/Silverlight, WCF, WF, OR/M (LINQ to SQL, EF), VS2008 SDK (MPF, Language Services), VS Shell, Azure Services, Cloud, Architectural Patterns (MVC, MVP, MVVM), Framework Design, TDD, DDD, XP

Gabor Ratky’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  EPAM

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  My role at EPAM includes architectural design, team lead, code, project management, trainings and interviews, tracking technology trends and communication with clients with limited sales activities.
  
  Lead Developer of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft (http://codeplex.com/AddOnStudio), an open-source, Microsoft IDE for development of World of Warcraft AddOns based on the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell. Worked on the architecture and development of the Lua language service, visual designer for markup-based declarative language, FrameXML, project system, etc.
  
  Worked on the design and implementation of architectural patterns for enterprise software on ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight 2 stacks.
  
  Speaker at 2008 VSX DevCon held in Redmond, WA, speaker at VSX Community Day in Budapest, Hungary, speaker at Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event organized by Microsoft Hungary.
  
  Co-author of a chapter in the book Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects... on AddOn Studio.

• Software Design Engineer / Consultant

  All Media Guide

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)

  After the acquisition of MoodLogic, Inc. by All Media Guide, I worked with the software team responsible for AMG's leading metadata retrieval, media recognition and playlisting technologies: LASSO and Tapestry.
  
  I architected and developed AMG's technology showcase tool for CES 2007 held in Las Vegas between January 8th - 11th, 2007.
  
  All Media Guide was acquired in 2007 and is now a Macrovision company

• Software Design Engineer

  MoodLogic, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2002 — May 2006 (3 years 8 months)

  Client-side development, jointly developed flagship SDK, user interface, experience, feature prototyping

• Software Design Engineer

  LyricsAMP (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  August 2002 — May 2003 (10 months)

  I have invented the concept of LyricsAMP, a real time lyrics retrieval engine that displays song lyrics to users of digital music players on the PC. I developed LyricsAMP proof of concept for Winamp 2.x (unreleased) and later LyricsAMP for Winamp 3 and LyricsAMP for Windows Media Player 9 and Windows Media Player 10. The plug-in achieved Top 5 most downloaded plug-in status for Winamp 3 with more than 300,000 downloads. I successfully developed and executed ad revenue based business model for the software application and achieved profitability for the project.

Gabor Ratky’s Education

• Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem

  BSc , Computer Science / Software Engineering , 2005 — 2006

  Unfinished

• Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem

  Diplom , Computer Science / Mathematics , 2003 — 2004

  Unfinished

Additional Information

Gabor Ratky’s Websites:

• My Company
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Gabor Ratky’s Interests:

domain-driven design, behavior-driven development, test-driven development, architectural patterns, design patterns, extreme programming, cloud computing, windows azure, music, travel, snowboarding

Gabor Ratky’s Groups:

•    .NET People
•    Linked .NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    C# Developers / Architects
•    EPAM Systems
•    Budapest New Technology Meetup

Gabor Ratky’s Honors:

• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP ID: 3492755)
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET 2.0 Windows Applications

o 70-316 - Developing and Implementing Windows®-based Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET (Sep 30, 2005)
o 70-526 - TS: Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 - Windows®-based Client Development (Feb 01, 2006)
o 70-536 – Technology Specialist: Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation (Dec 29, 2006)

o Transcript ID: 717773, Access Code: rgabostyle (https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx)

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