Alexander Parij

Software Developer

e: aparij@alexparij.com
b: blog.alexparij.com
a: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
p: (514) 966-3235

Professional Profile

Outstanding software developer with over six years of professional experience. I am receptive to new ideas and willing to be involved in a wide range of projects. Although professionally I'm working as a software developer, my educational background includes physics and mathematics. I improve these skills and knowledge by continuously self-educating myself outside of work, for example by taking Coursera courses. I mostly develop back-end parts of the projects I'm involved with occasional work on UI. I have very strong interest in machine learning and spend significant amount of my free time playing and learning with the different technologies in the field.

Work Experience

May 2013 - Nov 2013

Software Developer

Outbox Technologies, Full-Time

Working on Python backend services for e-ticketing platform. Turbogears and CherryPy webframeworks with MSSQL as db.
Javascript/Jquery UI for point of sales and websites for ticketing. Genshi templating
60% Python, 25% Javascript/Jquery, 5% Genshi , 10% SQL/MSSQL

Jul 2012 - Apr 2013

Software Developer

Datacratic, Full-Time

Taking machine learning prototypes from the research team and building a customer facing product. Mostly Python, NodeJS tech.
Designing and building REST API layers using Python Bottle web framework to support front-end development.
Building data pipelines (mostly in python) from client into machine learning systems and back to 3rd party apis.
Building UIs in Javascript/Coffeescript.
Refactoring and improving back-end services built in NodeJs and C++
50% Python, 30% NodeJS/Coffeescript, 10% SQL/SQLAlchemy, 10% Other

Apr 2009 - Jul 2012

Senior Software Developer

Wordstream, Full-Time Remote from Montreal to Boston

Early stage start-up, development of SaaS product, work on UI in Flex/Javascript and Python back-end.
Build projects entirely from ground up in a team or solo. Starting from a database design, Python algorithms and JQuery/Flex UIs.
Developed back-end services that integrated Adwords, Bing/Adcenter and Paypal data heavy apis.
Build network communications heavy components using Eventlets for non blocking IO. Rest API/AMF methods for client/server communications.
Design and optimization of PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.Used SQLAlchemy as ORM layer
60% Python, 20% Adobe Flex/JQuery, 10% SQL/SQLAlchemy, 10% Other

Nov 2007 - Dec 2008

Software Developer

Coradiant, Full-Time

Built Flex dashboard components (widgets) using Flex charting engine and third party maps library. Utilized Cairngorm and FlexUnit frameworks. Extended Flex components to achieve closer result to the designer's prototype.
Improved the UI experience of existing Flex application by incorporation innovative ideas of RIA UI.
Using Java wrote RESTfull services for the platform team for SNMP and SMTP communication.
Built traditional Java web application using JSF and Jboss Richfaces with Java middleware. Utilized latest Ajax technologies to provide better experience. Extended existing JSF components to provide clean and strict generated HTML markup to ease designer's CSS work.
40% Adobe Flex, 30% Java, 20% JSF/RichFaces/Javascript, 10% Other