
Taher Scherzay
Software Developer
Taher is a highly experienced engineer with lots of experience as a developer and CTO (who can code!) for a number of technologically diverse companies. His primary skill set lies in designing and developing large scale enterprise applications with significant automation and decision processing logic.
Portfolio
Availability
Preferred Environment
LAMP, Eclipse, Aptana, Visual Studio
The most amazing...
...application I've developed is an enterprise ad server rivaling the features and functionality of Google's DFP platform.
Work Experience
Senior Solutions Architect
Disney
- Architected web solutions.
Founder, Creator, Lead Architect
Thaeres
- Created Thaeres (thaeres.com), a fully automated SaaS enterprise software platform that optimizes and administers revenue management, payment processing, and long-term customer value management.
- Designed and developed the API and web application interfaces.
- Developed extensive web services layer accessible via SOAP, XML, and REST.
- Designed and implemented a WordPress template for the knowledge base.
- Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
- Designed, deployed, and maintained network operations on Windows Azure Cloud service.
- Designed and developed outbound notification system utilizing email and text messaging via third-party integrations (SendGrid & Twilio).
Chief Technology Officer
CrowdGather
- Created a custom buy-side and sell-side ad serving platform, (enrolled user website, public web services, back-end processing applications, content delivery services, outbound notification services and database schemas); able to scale up to 1B+ ad impressions/month/server cluster.
- Designed and developed RTB (real-time bidding) component of advertiser/publisher interface including first ever self-adjusting price recommendation algorithm.
- Designed and developed API and web application interfaces.
- Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
- Designed, deployed and maintained network operations on Amazon AWS Cloud service and internally owned colocation network.
Chief Technology Officer
Elexity Systems
- Created DentalSenders (desktop client applications, enrolled user website, public web services, back-end call processing applications, outbound notification services, and database schemas).
- Designed and developed the API and web application interfaces.
- Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
- Designed, deployed, and managed network operations on an internally owned colocation network.
- Designed and developed the outbound notification system utilizing email, text messaging, and telephone calls via third-party integrations (SilverPop, EnvoyWW, and Voxeo).
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
MLSOnline
- Created MLSListingsOnline.com (public and enrolled user website, back-end lead management services, and database schema) in nine months from concept to launch.
- Redesigned MLSonline.com from the ground up in six months by overhauling the entire software platform.
- Designed and developed all web application interfaces.
- Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
- Developed real-time system health checks and service watchdog.
Experience
Thaeres
https://www.thaeres.comAdisn
Skills
Languages
SQL, HTML, C#, PHP, CSS, Python, JavaScript, Java
Frameworks
.NET, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, AppFabric, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Zend Framework
Libraries/APIs
Authorize.net, PayPal API, jQuery, Facebook API, Yahoo! API, Google API
Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse IDE, Aptana, Windows Azure SDK, Apache, NGINX, Citrix XenServer, Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Concurrent Programming, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Waterfall Development, REST
Platforms
WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, Azure, Linux, CentOS, Eclipse, LAMP, Android, iOS
Storage
Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Memcached, MongoDB, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2005, SUSE
Other
Ajax, MSMQ, IIS
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
Boston University - Boston, MA