Senior engineer with an eye for visual design and 10 years of industry experience.
Proficient in JavaScript (modular, vanilla, jQuery, Backbone, Angular, Require, ExtJS, Underscore, Mocha, Selenium), HTML5, Pixel-perfect CSS3 (responsiveness, cross-browser issues, SASS, LESS, Stylus), web graphics (SVG, web fonts, Photoshop, Illustrator), ActionScript, Node.js, Grunt, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Working experience with Java, Python, Perl and
Senior engineer with an eye for visual design and 10 years of industry experience.
Proficient in JavaScript (modular, vanilla, jQuery, Backbone, Angular, Require, ExtJS, Underscore, Mocha, Selenium), HTML5, Pixel-perfect CSS3 (responsiveness, cross-browser issues, SASS, LESS, Stylus), web graphics (SVG, web fonts, Photoshop, Illustrator), ActionScript, Node.js, Grunt, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Working experience with Java, Python, Perl and PHP.
Product Engineer @ Tumblr is a media network powered by an army of independent creators and home to an audience of more than 300 million unique visitors. 80 million new posts daily. Pretty amazing! From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Senior Full-stack Engineer @ Described by Techcrunch, Wired and Forbes as a “bank of the future”, Moven is a debit account and an app for iPhone and Android that helps you manage your finances in real-time as you are spending money.
Key responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Overseeing and quality-controlling all product frontend development work
- Implementing notable features front-to-back for Moven's mobile apps
- Optimizing frontend code to perform as well as native apps on a range of devices
- Creating shareable modules and pieces of functionality that work across platforms
- Establishing a service-oriented architecture acting as a facade for external partner systems
- Integrating new debit card system with existing transaction polling and analysis systems
- Help carry the company through a successful A-series round, raising $8M in July 2014 From October 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 3 months) Senior Engineer @ Lab49 is a global firm providing strategy, design and technology consulting; building advanced and modern solutions for the world’s leading investment banks, hedge funds and exchanges.
Key responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Planning and engineering business-critical products for a range of Fortune 500 companies
- Leading multidisciplinary development and analysis teams on multimillion-dollar projects
- Working with clients directly to gather business requirements and determine technology stack
- Recruiting new Lab49 employees and improving global interview process
Sample projects below. From March 2010 to October 2013 (3 years 8 months) Senior Engineer @ Bekk is a leading Norwegian consulting firm planning, designing and delivering projects for large private and public sector enterprises within digital services.
Key responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Lead and individual contributor on cross-functional Agile engineering teams
- Developing award-winning products for some of the largest companies in the country
- Continuously adapting to existing systems and technologies under strict deadlines
- Analyzing new technologies to determine future paths for internal frontend team
Sample projects below. From December 2005 to March 2010 (4 years 4 months) Chief Technology Officer @ C3 built ToolBox, an e-commerce site aimed at providing various supplies for medium-sized businesses. ToolBox launched in 2005, became profitable and gained a client base of 4500 companies within months.
Key responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Working closely with CEO to help define the product
- Bringing the team's vision to life, front-to-back, as sole technical employee in the company
- Creating a solid foundation (LAMP-stack) and a product that continues to thrive to this day From January 2005 to December 2005 (1 year) Founder and Engineer @ Sceneami, a social network for fans of movies and tv-shows, is a side project started in Oslo, Norway. A cross between Twitter, IMDb and Last.fm; users register their viewing experiences and share reviews with friends. The technologies used include modular JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. Essentially anything that is free and easy to host.
Sceneami has been well-received by users of social communities and the blogosphere and grows in size daily. From August 2004 to January 2005 (6 months) Developer (Websphere MQ Service) @ WebSphere MQ is the core a series of award-winning IBM middleware products used by over 12,000 high-profile companies worldwide, including 70% of North American and European banks and more than 80% of companies in the Fortune 100. I worked with the service teams to deliver emergency software patches for WMQ directly to companies.
Key responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Delivering software fixes to companies who experienced problems with WMQ
- Working closely with the customer, the service and the dev teams to troubleshoot issues
- Building internal tools to streamline daily build processes
- Adapting to numerous programming languages on 8 different platforms From June 2001 to July 2002 (1 year 2 months)
MSc, Artificial Intelligence @ The University of Edinburgh From 2003 to 2004 BSc, Computer Science @ University of York From 1999 to 2003 Shah Kashani is skilled in: JavaScript, CSS, Agile Methodologies, jQuery, HTML 5, Flex, HTML, User Experience, Client Side, Semantic HTML, Node.js, SASS, Web Applications, Backbone.js, CSS3