Oakland, CA | San Francisco, CA
Also known as: goldenv
I like useful technologies and love building it even more. I enjoy designing and building software systems ranging from clients to large scale distributed systems. In my opinion, high-level design and documentation comes first, then coding-and-testing cycles. And that nothing beats building a team with extremely happy, motivated developers out there no matter what the productplatform is. My happiest moments have been times when we have come up with a series of ridiculously simple solutions for complicated problems and I simply love those aha moments. Think small and dream big, that's what I'd say. I have helped design buildlead many Ask.com systems including many parts Ask's core distribution infrastructure, mobile apps, API platform, high-engagement polls and quizzes platform (currently part of Ask.com home page and integrated with search results) and parts of Ask.com's (crowd sourced) community based QA product. I have been fortunate to be able to hire some awesome engineers and help build at least large teams here at Ask. Recently I designed a simple, but extremely high performance, durable real-time, stream processing platfrom based on Node.js which me and my team are currently building. It heavily utilizes event-based computing non-blocking io. I think it easily rivals twitter storm and really attempts to make large-scale distributedparallel computing accessible and fun I am hopeful, we will be able to open source it and share with the community. Storm proposes think queues and workers are painful to manage and scale. Well, I beg to disagree, hence this effort. In my spare time, I like to build my own backends, apps and utilities to keep up with my curiosities. I am a creative person and I enjoy such company. Apart from Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, I have studied fine arts (Industrial Design) and its still a big hobby of mine along with photography digital DJ-ing. You can contact me on my home page at httpwww.vishalshah.org Specialties innovation, design, design, design, architecture, mobile, native iosandroid, html, web as a platform, distributed server technologies, algorithms, data structures, high performance and scalable architectures, REST, API's, internet, browsers, non blocking servers and code, node.js, javascript, nosql, redis, scala, akka, actors, soa, services, riak, mongodb
