Lead Architect/Developer at Mahalo.com
Toronto, Canada Area
- Current
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- Lead Developer / Architect at Mahalo.com
- System Administrator at PodioBooks.com
- Past
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- Co-Creator & Lead Engineer at PopCurrent.com
- Developer - Internal Tools at Genesys Conferencing
- CTO at Thunderstone Media
- Software Support at Symantec
- Gold Disk/Astound Inc at Software Support / QA
- Education
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- Sheridan College
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Ray Slakinski’s Summary
I've helped bring podcasting to the world, then helped people to discover new online media! As you can see I like to take on big challenges and exciting new projects.
Ray Slakinski’s Specialties:
Syndication and web technologies, media, and podcasting
Ray Slakinski’s Experience
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Lead Developer / Architect
Mahalo.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Mahalo is a human-powered search engine and a knowledge sharing service, helping people on the Internet quickly find the best possible information on any topic. Members of the public can also earn money by contributing to Mahalo topic pages or by answering questions on the Mahalo Answers system.
- I develop against various technologies with my team to breath life into Mahalo.com such as:
* Python
* Django
* Solr / Lucene
* CouchDB
* hBase
* RabbitMQ
At the time of this writing we have scaled Mahalo.com from 0 to 8M unique pageviews a month. -
System Administrator
PodioBooks.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
- Evaluate new technologies
- Maintain network and user accounts
- Minor programming duties -
Co-Creator & Lead Engineer
PopCurrent.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 10 months)
- Assist with design decisions
- Co-develop site
- Evaluate new technologies
- Marketing -
Developer - Internal Tools
Genesys Conferencing
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GNSY; Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — January 2007 (6 years 2 months)
- Develop tools for building, configuring and deploying applications
- Documentation
- Maintaining source repositories using StarTeam
- Building internal corporate communication tools -
CTO
Thunderstone Media
(Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years )
Thunderstone Media is best known for developing the first true podcasting application: iPodderX now known as Transistr which I co-wrote with Thunderstone Media CEO August Trometer.
Duties:
- Design and Develop new features and applications related to RSS and Podcasting
- Evangelize RSS, and OPML related technologies
- Community relations
- Server administration (BSD, Linux)
- Investigate new technologies -
Software Support
Symantec
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; symc; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — December 2000 (5 years )
-Was technical lead for software support of: Winfax, The URLabs product line, and Procomm
-Developed online tutorials using Macromedia Director
- Became technical advisor for this group -
Gold Disk/Astound Inc
Software Support / QA
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1993 — 1996 (3 years )
- Software support for a large number of Windows & Macintosh software
- Performed Quality Assurance duties
- Developed a number of in-house tools to automate various tasks
Ray Slakinski’s Education
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Sheridan College
September 1997 — March 1998
Additional Information
Ray Slakinski’s Websites:
Ray Slakinski’s Interests:
podcasting, syndication technologies (rss/atom), wikis, & other great new technology
Ray Slakinski’s Groups:
TorCamp
Ray Slakinski’s Honors:
The software iPodderX/Transistr - that I co-wrote - has received a number of glowing reviews.
Ray Slakinski’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
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