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Sergio Tashdjian, Ajax Developer in Uruguay
Sergio Tashdjian

Ajax Developer in Uruguay

Member since September 19, 2013
Sergio is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in a wide range of platforms, languages, and frameworks. He is a problem solver who tries to find abstractions that make complex problems look easy. He also enjoys breaking things apart to discover elusive bugs, performance issues, etc.
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Portfolio

Experience

Location

Uruguay

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Windows, Linux

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is a Yacc based compiler to translate business rules into Java source that once compiled gets injected into a running risk management monitor.

Employment

  • Senior Web Engineer

    2012 - PRESENT
    Opera Solutions
    • Built several jQuery UI widgets for big data visualization.
    • Created a jQuery plugin that renders a form to edit arbitrary objects. It renders inputs for each property on the target object, allows adding/removing items from array properties, etc. The object can be pre-decorated to help the plugin provide customized inputs and labels for each property.
    • Created a QlickView extension to wrap Opera's data visualization widgets (jQuery UI based). This allowed embedding these widgets into existing QlikView documents.
    Technologies: Java, jQuery, JavaScript

  • Senior Web Engineer

    2010 - PRESENT
    Hammerlabs / Primitive Spark
    • Implemented several Drupal sites and Drupal templates, including deep customization of calendar and MailChimp modules among others.
    • Implemented MySQL replication to feed Drupal development environments with data from production, allowing pushing the dev database directly into production and reducing deployment time considerably.
    • Created a bridge between CodeIgniter and the Zend Framework to easily take advantage of Zend libraries from CodeIgniter applications.
    • Created a JavaScript/PHP templating engine that allows serving a single page site as a standard site to provide canonical urls that render exactly the same as the single page site.
    • Developed HTML5/mobile promotional sites for movies.
    Technologies: JavaScript, Drupal, PHP

  • Senior web Developer

    2007 - 2009
    mEgo Inc.
    • Developed several new methods on mEgo's CodeIgniter based API.
    • Developed several full Ajax based pages for mEgo's user interface.
    • Built social apps for integrating mEgo avatars to Facebook, Friendster, hi5, MySpace, and others.
    • Developed server to server communication to read user's Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/etc. feeds and integrate them into mEgo's avatars.
    • Implemented a CDN file based cache for API reads, since 95% of mEgo API requests were reads. Only write operations hit the DB and refreshes cached files.
    Technologies: JavaScript, PHP

  • Senior Developer, Co-Owner

    2004 - 2006
    BigFunBug
    • Built a Soccer Simulation in C++ for an massive online soccer game (ManagerArena).
    • Developed a random face generator for fantasy soccer players.
    • Developed a flash application to render simulated soccer matches.
    • Developed PHP/MySQL backend API methods for supporting the soccer simulator and viewer.
    • Developed several Ajax based pages for ManagerArena's user inerface.
    Technologies: Flash ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP, C++

  • Customs Consultant

    2001 - 2005
    Inter-American Development Bank
    • Analyzed customs procedures for courier shipments clearance in Costa Rica, Republica Dominicana, Barbados, Trinidad&Tobago and Dominican Republic.
    • Developed a web based workflow for courier shipments clearance.
    • Adapted the courier shipment clearance workflow to several country's laws.
    • Prepared and presented training sessions to help customs officers work with the workflow.
    • Implemented a set of SOAP services to enable courier companies feed the clearance system with shipments.
    Technologies: C#, GeneXus

  • Applications Developer

    1999 - 2004
    Dirección Nacional de Aduanas (Uruguay's Customs Office)
    • Developed cargo manifest workflow.
    • Built an automatic export duty calculation system based formulas stored at the DB and interpreted directly by DB triggers.
    • Added API entry points for data interchange between customs and other government agencies.
    • Developed a custom Business Rules engine for assigning risk channels to customs declarations.
    • Migrated several FoxPro applications to GeneXus in order to integrate them into the new pool of applications.
    Technologies: Visual FoxPro, GeneXus

Experience

  • Spend Intelligence Platform

    jQuery UI Widgets based Data Visualization platform. (not available online)

  • The Hunger Games Citizen Control Center

    This is a promotional site for Lionsgate's movies "The Hunger Games". Its designed and built to fit either big screens or tablets, and animations being 100% html/css/javascript bring the full experience working at any platform.

  • Education site - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

    Drupal site for MOCA Education Programs and Exhibit Calendar.

  • "I Frankenstein" teaser site.

    Parallax style teaser promotional site for this movie from Lionsgate. Designed and built to deliver the same experience at desktop and tablet browsers.

  • Fanstudio
    http://fanstudio.es/

    Drupal based design news portal and e-shop.

  • Top Chef University

    Virtual learning site.

  • NADA University

    Virtual learning site.

  • mEgo Avatars
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqBw6nPxWk

    Interactive customizable avatars. (not available online anymore)

Skills

  • Languages

    HTML5, CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Visual FoxPro, Flash ActionScript, Java, Less, C++, C#, CoffeeScript

  • Frameworks

    CodeIgniter, Aurelia, PixiJS, Impact, PhoneGap, Bootstrap, Zend Framework, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

  • Libraries/APIs

    jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Highcharts, jQuery UI, ImageMagick, Facebook API

  • Tools

    CppCMS, JSPM, Subversion (SVN), Jira, Git, Sublime Text, GreenSock, Adobe Photoshop, Apache Tomcat, Mailchimp, GitHub, Eclipse IDE

  • Paradigms

    Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Model View Controller (MVC), Scrum

  • Platforms

    LAMP, Drupal, Linux, Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Storage

    Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, Memcached, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle SQL

  • Other

    Ajax, Architecture, OAuth, GeneXus

Education

  • Masters Degree in Computer Engineering
    1996 - 2002
    Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de la República. - Uruguay

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