Shahzad Bhatti

Work

Currently I am working at Online group of Peak6.com as a Senior Software Engineer.

Past Projects

I have over seventeen years of experience and most of that have been primarily in web development that include:

Retail System Platform and internal web applications in the Retail group of Amazon,
Ecommerce Websites for Orbitz: Orbitz, CheapTickets, etc.
Web based Warranty Claim System for Hendrickson International.
Web based Scheduling application for United Airlines
Travel Websites for IDOT: GCM
Travel Websites for CDOT: Trex
Website for Discover Card

I generally distinguish developers into following categories:

Day-Jobber vs real hackers
Generalists vs Specialists
Application Developer vs Tool Builder vs System programmer

So, I consider myself hacker, generalist and I mostly work building tools with some systems programming. Even after doing programming for over 20 years (seventeen years professionally), I still love programming and will continue doing it for the rest of my life. I started programming back in 80s with Basic on Atari, I then moved to C, on old x8080 machines, I also did COBOL, Assembler and CICS on Mainframe; FORTRAN on VMS, and C/C++ on SunOs (later became Solaris), IRIX (SGI), AIX. In my graduate school days, I did kernel tweaking on Minix, wrote ICON compilers and became interested in distributed computing. I became interestd in Java back in '95 and built a lot of large scale systems that used Java, CORBA, J2EE and JINI. These days my interests include Erlang, Haskell, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Scala, OCaml, Lisp/Scheme, Factor/Forth, Agile Methodologeis, JINI, JXTA, J2ME, AOP, SOA, Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed computing.

Here is snapshots of the computer languages I have used over the year

I have worked in role of:

Software Engineer
UNIX Systems Administrator
Technical lead
Principal Engineer
Application Architect
Systems Architect
Senior Software Architect

I have worked on various technologies and middlewares such as:

CORBA
J2EE/J2ME/J2SE
ESB
Web Services
JINI/JavaSpaces
Voyager
Python
Ruby on rails
Amazone Web Services (S3, ECS, SimpleDB, EC2, SQS)
Erlang/OTP

I am currently learning following technologies on my own

Haskell
Scala
OCaml
Factor

I have worked on a variety of methodologies such as:

Rational Unified Process
XP/TDD
Scrum/Lean

and partially used following:

Crystal Clear
DSDM
FDD
Agile Project Management/ASD

I enjoy work when I get to use all these skills, when I am working on architecture, evaluating new things, setting up hardware, developing, debugging, optimizing, and coaching other people.

Open Source Contributions

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