Jamal Fanaian

(407) 479-7533
j@jamalfanaian.com

Experienced and motivated software engineer looking for a new opportunity to share my experience and to improve my skills.

Work Experience

• Over six years of experience as a software engineer specializing in server-side development for online services.
• Lead development on the OAuth implementation for the Flickr API and support for mobile partners who integrated with it.
• Created a contact suggestion algorithm for Flickr, to help users find people who might be relevant to them based on their current relationships.
• Worked on the integration with the Facebook API that allowed automatic uploads to be pushed to Facebook.
• Worked on the implementation of Open ID and Facebook login for Flickr using the Yahoo! single-sign on service.
• Working on an Android note taking application, Chalk Notes, which synchronizes with Ubuntu One.
• Contributing to open source projects such as Launchpad, Gwibber, and Unity and Nux.
• Integrated sales with the Disneyland API to provide real-time order confirmation and creation of PDF voucher.
• Created an email campaign manager using Zend Framework that sends weelky to a mailing list of over 10,000 subscribers and report statistics on the number of opens, clicks, bounces, and unsubscribes each campaign receives.
• Lead developer for the rebuild of JTA (www.jta.org) using ExpressionEngine, which required extensive customization as modules and extensions to provide the features required by the project. Created a completely custom gallery system that allowed the client to upload and crop images, load videos uploaded to YouTube, and organize galleries and link them to stories. Also created a module to add social networking capabilities that the members of the site can use to share stories, friend other users and communicate from within JTA.
• Implemented a search index that imported from the MLS realty system for Heather The Realtor (www.heathertherealtor.com) which contains roughly 70,000 listings for Central Florida.

Skills

• Development with PHP, and experience using Zend Framework, CakePHP, Symfony, Code Igniter, and ExpressionEngine
• Development with Python development, and experience using Django, PyGTK
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, and MS SQL, and alternative databases such as Redis and CouchDB
• Experience interacting with web services and APIs that use XML, JSON, REST and regular GET/POST
• Client side scripting with Javascript, HTML, XHTML, CSS
• Versioning using Subversion, Bazaar and GIT
• Extensive experience working on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X
• Linux system administration (Debian, Red Hat)
• Team leadership
• Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)

Work History

• Flickr (Yahoo! Inc.) (2010-2011)
• Entertainment Benefits Group, Inc. (2009-2010)
• Nextelligence, Inc. (2009)
• Hydra Studio (2008-2009)
• Web2Corp / Nextelligence, Inc. (2006-2008)
• The Christensen Group (2006)
• World Financial Marketing (2005-2006)

Community

• Member of the Ubuntu California LoCo
• Prior member of the Ubuntu Florida LoCo, Orlando PHP User's Group, and Orlando Python User's Group
• Approved Ubuntu Member

Open Source

• Lead development of Zeitgeist Affinity, a Django-based API to log events from Zeitgeist clients.
• Started Pandamon, an experimental server and web application to offer the ability to stream live video and rely on open standards
• Created GrooveNotify, a small script that listens to Grooveshark Desktop to display current song notifications using libnotify
• Created a website for the Zeitgeist project originally using Django, but recently moved to Wordpress
• Contributing to Launchpad, Unity and Gwibber

Education

• University of Central Florida - Studied Computer Science
• Seminole Community College - Graduated with an A.A. - 2007
• Crooms Academy of Information Technology - Graduated - 2005