Yakov Fain

Current

• Managing Director at Farata Systems

Past

• Software Architect at FXall
• Architect at BusinessEdge Solutions
• VP at Bank of America

• Consultant at Citigroup
• Java Architect at UBS

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Education

• NPI

Recommended

1 person has recommended Yakov

Connections

158 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Adobe Flex blog

Yakov Fain’s Summary

Yakov is managing director at Farata Systems (http://www.faratasystems.com) that specicalizes in architecture and design of Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. Here's one of the recent projects where Yakov was a technical lead: http://www.mbusa.com

He leads Princeton Java Users Group.
Yakov is Adobe Certified Flex Instructor.

Sun Microsystems has awarded Yakov the title Java Champion.
Yakov's articles are published in Java Developer's Journal and Flex Developer's Journal (see http://yakovfain.sys-con.com/ )

Yakov blogs at at http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com
and http://flexblog.faratasystems.com

Yakov Fain’s Specialties:

Yakov is a senior technical architect at a consulting company specializing in rich Internet applications for financial applications. He authored/co-authored four books and has written dozens of articles. Yakov holds Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics.
Currently, he works on the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Development with Flex", see http://tinyurl.com/bb3ldy

Yakov Fain’s Experience

• Managing Director

  Farata Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  Farata Systems specializes in development of Enterprise Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Adobe Flex, AIR and Java.
  
  See www.faratasystems.com for details.

• Software Architect

  FXall

  (Financial Services industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

• Architect

  BusinessEdge Solutions

  (Financial Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

• VP

  Bank of America

  (Financial Services industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

• Consultant

  Citigroup

  (Public Company; C; Financial Services industry)

  May 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 3 months)

  Architect and developer of global equity trading platform (the project Zeus) using J2EE technologies

• Java Architect

  UBS

  (Financial Services industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

Yakov Fain’s Education

• NPI

  MS , Applied Math

Additional Information

Yakov Fain’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Adobe Flex blog

Yakov Fain’s Interests:

Teaching part-time Adobe Flex and Java at New York University

Yakov Fain’s Groups:

Yakov leads the Prinecton Java Users Group: http://www.myflex.org.com/princetonjug

•    360|Flex Attendees, Speakers, Sponsors
•    Live Video Broadcasters
•    Java Champions
•    Adobe Flex Experts
•    Adobe Flash Platform Leaders & Architects

Yakov Fain’s Honors:

Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov Fain with the title "Java Champion": https://java-champions.dev.java.net/

Yakov Fain’s Contact Settings

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