Resume
Jonathan Haddad
Phone: 424-212-1422
Email: jon AT jonhaddad dot com
PHP, Linux, Apache, MySQL (standard and cluster), memcached. Database optimization and scalability. Bash scripting, SVN, automated release system.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Vermont, 2003.
Demand Media
Sept 2006 - Present
Sr. Software Engineer
Lead developer on Answerbag.com. Scaled site to handle 5 million unique visitors per month, over 2 million answers, over half a million questions, millions of ratings, half a million pagesviews per day. (Alexa rank < 5000). Developed search engine, white label system, and read / write api.
Developed distributed search engine as a service which is consumed by several of our internal properties. (internal search, mania.com)
Developed minifeed service which is also to be consumed by several sites (think Facebook news feed)
Managed PHP team. Determined architecture of PHP based sites.
Migrated airliners.net to Demand Media servers, and fixed many architecture issues. Site was getting 75million pagesviews / month at the time.
Helped identify database load issues on mania.com.
Infosearch Media
March 2006 - Sept 2006
Took over development of Answerbag.com as Lead Developer. Converted site to use smarty templating rather than inline HTML.
Intermix Media
September 2005 - March 2006
Developed new features for Grab.com. User created tournaments, “Grab Mart”. Integrated flash front end with database backend using XML and JSON.
Flynn Theater
1 Man IT Dept / Help Desk.
Self Employment / Consulting
June 2002 - September 2005
Programming Languages
PHP, SQL, C, C++, Objective-C (Cocoa), Java, Erlang
HTML, CSS, Javascript
