Alo Sarv

SUMMARY

Strong background in advanced C++ programming (distributed, peer-to-peer architectures) for over 4 years, followed by 5 years working with modern web technologies (HTML5, AJAX, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL). I value writing beautiful code, am passionate about intricate algorithms and consider coding an art form. Prefer to work in small remote teams over the Internet and keep moving from project to project every few months to keep things interesting.

EDUCATION

• Kehtna Economy and Technology School (2000) (Kehtna, Estonia)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Lead Programmer Fangate Media Co., Ltd.

February 2011 – Present Thailand / San Diego, CA, US

• PHP, JS, HTML; Developed a platform to let users utilize a point-and-click interface to setup websites integrated in Facebook pages featuring polls, surveys, fangates and more. http://fangatemedia.com/

Lead Programmer Consensus Media, LLC.

October 2010 – February 2011 Thailand / San Diego, CA, US

• Web, Flash, PHP programming for http://whosright.com/

Senior Engineer VodkaCran Inc.

January 2010 – September 2010 Thailand / San Diego, CA, US

• Senior frontend web programmer for http://vodkacran.com/ and http://happypatrons.com/

Director of Engineering, Co-Founder Rippol Inc.

April 2009 – December 2009 Thailand / San Diego, CA, US

• Lead a remote team of engineers and designers to create a social video discovery website
• Developed a complex AJAX/jQuery-based user interface based on design specifications
• Implemented deep UI integration with Facebook and Twitter
• Consulted design team in the areas of user experience and UI usability
• Implemented a web spider/crawler in Python which discovers videos from various sites across the internet

Senior Software Engineer Jittr Networks Inc. / Vusion, Inc.

January 2007 – April 2009 Thailand / San Jose, CA, US

• Designed and implemented Vusion Intelligent Client and client-side smart streaming algorithms which work behind firewalls, NATs and proxies. The client also has dynamic scaling system allowing it to achieve maximum datarate even under worst network conditions.
• Designed and implemented WARP peer-to-peer distributed content delivery system
• Implemented a distributed TCP NAT traversal algorithm for real peer-to-peer NAT-to-NAT transfers
• Designed and implemented WARP peer-to-peer system server-side components
• Designed Jittr Ad & Content Exchange (JACX) interface (unreleased)

Database Programmer Omandi OÜ

June 2006 – December 2006 Thailand / Tartu, Estonia

• Developed an intranet system for managing projects, clients and personal; scheduling projects and vacations and keeping track of inventory.
• Using Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, JavaScript, XHTML/DOM and JSON-based RPC mechanism.

Lead Programmer and Architect Hydranode Project (modular P2P client framework)

May 2004 – May 2006 Tartu, Estonia

• Designed and developed a general-purpose cross-platform class library providing API for networking, event multiplexing, files checksumming, UPnP and network traffic scheduling (hnbase module, 14,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
• Designed and developed a general-purpose cross-platform class library providing API for filesharing-related functionality such as handling downloads, shared files, metadata, clients management and more (hncore module, 13,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
• Designed and developed eDonkey2000 networking plugin based on hncore/hnbase architecture; implemented 90% of the eDonkey2000 protocol specification (15,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
• Designed and developed BitTorrent networking plugin based on hncore/hnbase architecture; implemented basic Bittorrent specification (6,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
• Designed and developed an inter-process communication mechanism using TCP/IP networking and binary protocol to provide means of attaching local or remote user interfaces to the Hydranode core architecture. (6,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
• Developed graphical user interface for the Hydranode core architecture, which interacts with the Hydranode core using TCP/IP networking. (9,000 lines of C++/Qt4/Boost code).
• Wrote technical documentation for all of the above-mentioned components; RFC’s and general overview documents.

Database Programmer The Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu

February 2006 – April 2006 Tartu, Estonia

• Developed an online database system for managing large list of plants and their status.
• Using MySQL, PHP and HTML.

Programmer xMule P2P Client (based on eMule)

April 2003 – August 2003 Tartu, Estonia

• Maintenance programming and debugging a 100,000-line C++/wxWidgets codebase.
• Porting eMule features from MFC/Windows to wxWidgets/Linux.

Maintenance Database Programmer Elamu Grupp OÜ

October 2002 – January 2003 Tallinn, Estonia

• Maintenance programming of a medium-scale database system in MS Access / SQL / VBA.

LANGUAGES

• Estonian (mother tongue)
• English (fluent in spoken and written)
• Thai (some)

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Cross-platform, parallel and distributed programming in C++ (STL, Boost, Qt, wxWidgets) (6 years)
• Web programming in XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript (jQuery) (9 years)
• Building Facebook-integrated web applications using Facebook APIs and platform (5 years)
• Scripting languages (Python) (2 years)
• User experience analysis and UI design (9 years)
• Linux servers setup, configuration and maintenance
• Writing technical design documentation and analysis

INTERESTS

• Parallel and distributed programming
• Statistical analysis, human psychology, financial markets
• Marketing
• Playing pool and drums