Chris Thomson

Current

• Technical Lead at Fusion Ads

Education

• East York Collegiate Institute

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Program Development

Chris Thomson’s Summary

Chris is currently exploring the world of Ruby on Rails.

Chris is the technical lead at Fusion Ads, an online advertising company. Chris worked with the OpenX software package (which he says was horrific for the needs of Fusion Ads at the time) to create an ad platform perfectly suitable for Fusion Ads. He also created a simplistic PHP-based API for serving ads to desktop and mobile applications.

Chris has written for a number of technology publications that focus on Apple or WordPress.

Chris has been involved in the podcasting community for a few years now, but has been on a brief hiatus since fall 2007.

Chris is forced to write Windows applications at school using C#.

Chris Thomson’s Specialties:

wordpress, podcasting, blogging, social media, php, ruby on rails

Chris Thomson’s Experience

• Technical Lead

  Fusion Ads

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  I chose a VPS provider, set it up with Ubuntu, and ensure that the VPS is running smoothly. I also re-factored some of the ad server code, and simplified the management interface to require less clicks for common tasks. I also helped to enhance the stats page to fit the needs of Fusion Ads. Lastly, I created a simple XML API for serving advertisements to desktop applications.

Chris Thomson’s Education

• East York Collegiate Institute

  2007 — 2011 (expected)

Additional Information

Chris Thomson’s Interests:

blogging, social media, microformats, activity streams, oauth, openid, ruby on rails, rails, objective-c, iphone development, new technology, web semantics, twitter

Chris Thomson’s Groups:

•    Fans of Mashable
•    Tweeple

Chris Thomson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch