PHP Developer / Resume

Objective

Utilize my design and programming experience to work on a large scale website in a team environment

Skills

PHP: Configuration, security, object-oriented programming, creating web services, custom frameworks, major version migrations
MySQL: Configuration, query optimization, full-text search indexing, de-normalization
JavaScript: Animation effects, rich internet applications, custom form validation
AJAX: Mashups using Facebook Platform, Amazon AWS, Yahoo Search, Google Maps, Flickr and Twitter
JSON: Web services, cross domain scripting, data exchange between PHP, MySQL, Flash and JavaScript
Additional: Linux, Actionscript, ColdFusion, MS SQL Server

Experience

  • Yahoo!: Software Engineer
  • Nov. 2007 - Present
  • Developing software which supports over 25 languages through internationalization and localization
  • Unifying user data from various internal and external sources using web service APIs.
  • Building social networking into the user experience across multiple properties.
  • Providing input into product development and engineering guidelines.
  • Socialbib: Co-founder
  • Aug. 2007 - Present
  • Integrated the Amazon Search API to search for books by specifying ISBN, title or author
  • Successfully integrated with Facebook using the Facebook Platform
  • Built a credit system which keeps balances for students allowing them to exchange books
  • Created a custom PHP framework which enabled the team to complete the project in 4 weeks
  • FotoFlix, Inc.: Co-founder
  • May 2005 - Nov. 2007
  • Responsibilities include database design, code profiling and extensive documentation
  • Designed and implemented a dynamic image rendering web service which is consumed by PHP, JavaScript and ActionScript
  • Developed Javascript API used by clients to integrate the Photagious application into their own websites
  • Increased developer productivity by over 300% by using efficient programming methodologies and local development environments
  • ClearChannel: Senior PHP Developer
  • Feb. 2002 - Apr. 2005
  • Developed applications on a high traffic platform which hosts over 1,200 websites
  • Designed a single sign-on service which supports cross domain authentication for all sites
  • Augmented a third party issue tracking system to support the existing work flow
  • GlobalCloud, Ltd.: Web Developer
  • Sept. 2001 - Nov. 2002
  • Worked with developers and designers to build an equity trading platform
  • Implemented full featured content management systems into websites
  • Introduced the usage of ColdFusion custom tags which increased code quality and reusability

Conferences and Publications

    • San Jose Zend/PHP Conference (Oct. 2006)
    • Presented on efficiently using JSON and PHP to create AJAX applications
    • International PHP Magazine (Aug. 2006)
    • Wrote the cover story on how to build an AJAX search engine
    • New York PHP Conference (Jul. 2006)
    • Spoke about how to use JSON to easily add rich interfaces into websites

Jaisen Mathai

  • 422 East Evelyn Ave. #102
  • Sunnyvale, CA94086


About this site:
This is my (Jaisen Mathai) personal site for potential employers who want to see my resume or portfolio. My ideal job would be to work as a PHP developer on a large scale consumer website. My experience is in using PHP, MySQL, Ajax and JSON. I really enjoy creative brainstorming...taking a problem apart and narrowing 100 solutions down to the best one.

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