Contact

×
Name:
Email:
Message:
Send message

Share

×
Twitter
Facebook
Tumblr
Posterous
Blogger
Wordpress
Linkedin
Delicious
Digg
Myspace
Windows Live
Google Buzz
Orkut
Stumbleupon
Reddit

Ray Slakinski

Information

5
Repos
6
Gists
6
Followers
20
Following

Repositories

  • ipodderx-core

    Python engine behind the first desktop podcasting client iPodderX!
    1 watcher
    Pushed 13 months ago

  • oSync

    oSync Specification Website and Files
    2 watchers
    Pushed 8 months ago

  • PopCurrent

    RoR codebase to the now defunct website PopCurrent
    1 watcher
    Pushed 10 months ago

  • cassandra-sessions

    Use Cassandra as a session store for Django
    5 watchers
    Pushed 3 months ago

  • hiispider

    Amazon Web Services web crawler
    4 watchers
    Pushed 6 days ago

Watched Repositories

  • git_remote_branch

    A tool to simplify working with remote branches
    10 forks / 219 watchers
    Pushed 17 months ago

  • gitx

    A gitk clone for OS X
    105 forks / 1362 watchers
    Pushed 7 months ago

  • python-firmata

    Python bindings for the Firmata protocol
    3 forks / 17 watchers
    Pushed 3 months ago

  • pyfacebook

    PyFacebook
    68 forks / 329 watchers
    Pushed 8 months ago

  • dtrace-textmate-bundle

    A Bundle that adds DTrace language, commands and scripts to TextMate
    2 forks / 18 watchers
    Pushed 4 months ago

  • podiobooks

    Version 2.0 of the Podiobooks.com Source Code (in development)
    2 forks / 13 watchers
    Pushed 8 months ago

  • django-media-bundler

    Django application that bundles your Javascript and CSS and sprites your icons.
    3 forks / 111 watchers
    Pushed 16 months ago

  • wapi

    Web Api Framework for Django
    2 forks / 16 watchers
    Pushed 17 months ago

  • django-tokyo-sessions

    This is a session backend for Django that stores sessions in a Tokyo Cabinet database, which communicates via Tokyo Tyrant using the PyTyrant library. Tokyo Cabinet is a key-value store similar to BDB.
    2 forks / 84 watchers
    Pushed 18 months ago

  • scribe

    Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine.
    36 forks / 468 watchers
    Pushed 9 weeks ago

  • celery

    Distributed Task Queue
    65 forks / 347 watchers
    Pushed 2 days ago

  • ircamp

    IRC <-> Campfire Bridge
    1 fork / 15 watchers
    Pushed 16 months ago

  • awspider

    Amazon Web Services web crawler
    1 fork / 17 watchers
    Pushed 10 weeks ago

  • homebrew

    The missing package manager for OS X.
    1000 forks / 2583 watchers
    Pushed 24 hours ago

  • reggy

    Objective-C interactive regular expression validator and tester for OS X.
    2 forks / 58 watchers
    Pushed 14 months ago

  • timelib

    python module for parsing english textual date descriptions
    14 watchers
    Pushed 9 months ago

  • pysolr

    Pysolr 2.0.13-beta. The official source.
    11 forks / 38 watchers
    Pushed 10 weeks ago

  • rabbitmq-server-tip

    RabbitMQ Server
    16 watchers
    Pushed 14 months ago

  • ipodderx-core

    Python engine behind the first desktop podcasting client iPodderX!
    1 watcher
    Pushed 13 months ago

  • lazyboy

    Python wrapper for Cassandra
    15 forks / 232 watchers
    Pushed 6 months ago

  • pylibmc

    A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface from TangentOrg.
    3 forks / 54 watchers
    Pushed 3 days ago

  • cassandra_object

    A library for persisting your objects into cassandra.
    25 forks / 217 watchers
    Pushed 3 months ago

  • oSync

    oSync Specification Website and Files
    2 watchers
    Pushed 8 months ago

  • Cassandra-Hadoop-BMT

    An example of using Hadoop to Cassandra through the Binary Memtable
    17 watchers
    Pushed 12 months ago

  • durian

    Webhooks for Django *experimental*
    1 fork / 32 watchers
    Pushed 11 months ago

  • tornado

    Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed.
    215 forks / 1505 watchers
    Pushed 35 hours ago

  • django-orm-cache

    A caching layer for Django
    4 forks / 42 watchers
    Pushed 11 months ago

  • hurricane

    Hurricane is a project for easily creating Comet web applications.
    111 watchers
    Pushed 11 months ago

  • Telephus

    Telephus is a connection pooled, low-level client API for Cassandra in Twisted python.
    3 forks / 38 watchers
    Pushed 15 hours ago

  • hurl

    Hurl makes HTTP requests.
    16 forks / 284 watchers
    Pushed 17 days ago

  • chiton

    A browser for Cassandra using GTK
    38 watchers
    Pushed 5 days ago

  • PopCurrent

    RoR codebase to the now defunct website PopCurrent
    1 watcher
    Pushed 10 months ago

  • pika

    AMQP 0-8 and 0-9-1 client library for Python
    6 forks / 80 watchers
    Pushed 9 weeks ago

  • ghettoq

    Redis based ghetto queue.
    9 forks / 43 watchers
    Pushed 2 days ago

  • otp

    Erlang/OTP
    150 forks / 704 watchers
    Pushed 18 hours ago

  • gunicorn

    gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
    25 forks / 270 watchers
    Pushed 13 hours ago

  • pycassa

    Simple python library for Cassandra
    13 forks / 126 watchers
    Pushed 3 days ago

  • hiphop-php

    71 forks / 1141 watchers
    Pushed 18 hours ago

  • murder

    Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library
    19 forks / 794 watchers
    Pushed 5 months ago

  • bleach

    An easy, HTML5, whitelisting HTML sanitizer.
    4 forks / 27 watchers
    Pushed 2 days ago

  • txconnpool

    A generalized connection pooling library for Twisted.
    13 watchers
    Pushed 6 months ago

  • KitchenSink

    Titanium Mobile Kitchen Sink Demo
    45 forks / 247 watchers
    Pushed 4 weeks ago

  • msgpack

    MessagePack is an extremely efficient object serialization library. It's like JSON, but very fast and small.
    20 forks / 291 watchers
    Pushed 32 hours ago

  • AckMate

    TextMate plugin (Cocoa) shell for running 'ack'
    8 forks / 400 watchers
    Pushed 2 months ago

  • fanout.node.js

    A simple fanout pubsub message server for node.js
    3 forks / 132 watchers
    Pushed 4 months ago

  • GitHub-Stoplight

    57 watchers
    Pushed 3 months ago

  • monocle

    An async programming framework with a blocking look-alike syntax.
    2 forks / 190 watchers
    Pushed 19 days ago

  • cassandra-sessions

    Use Cassandra as a session store for Django
    5 watchers
    Pushed 3 months ago

  • hiispider

    Amazon Web Services web crawler
    4 watchers
    Pushed 6 days ago
Projects

Latest checkin

Badges

Checkin history

Friends

Check-Ins

Posts

Interesting Reads

Profile

Ray Slakinski

Experienced web architect with focus on scaling and SEO
Computer Software | Toronto, Canada Area, CA

Summary

I am a highly motivated and experienced mid-to-backend web developer who loves to solve scaling issues, exploring new ideas and build them to excellence. I have many years of experience in software development from desktop applications to large scale web applications. My passion and goals always revolve around learning new technology and building cutting edge products around them.
Specialties: Web technologies, scaling strategies, seo

Experience

  • 2010 - Present

    Sr. Developer / Hii Def Inc.

  • Dec 2006 - Feb 2010

    Lead Developer / Architect / Mahalo.com

    Mahalo is a human-powered search engine and a knowledge sharing service, helping people on the Internet quickly find the best possible information on any topic. Members of the public can also earn money by contributing to Mahalo topic pages or by answering questions on the Mahalo Answers system.

    * Founding employee, lead developer and architect
    * Scaled website from 0 to over 17M unique visitors
    * Migrated portions of the Mahalo dataset from MySQL to a Cassandra cluster
    * Implemented a task queue system to offload work from our webservers
    * Worked closely with both development and network operations teams
    * Evaluated and made recommendations to enhance Mahalo's SEO
    * Developed a short url system that also tracked click-throughs
    * Devised and acted on a plan to move Mahalo from Mediawiki to a custom solution
    * Developed and documented APIs for third party developers to use Mahalo’s data
    * Created and used tools to handle scale deployments
  • Mar 2006 - Dec 2009

    Co-Creator & Lead Engineer / PopCurrent.com

    * Co-created and developed a website for voting on popular media
    * Architected the site from the ground up
    * Designed and created features using Ruby on Rails web framework
  • Sept 2004 - Aug 2007

    CTO / Thunderstone Media

    Thunderstone Media is best known for developing the first true podcasting application: iPodderX now known as Transistr which I co-wrote with Thunderstone Media CEO August Trometer.

    * Co-created and developed iPodderX, the first desktop podcasting application
    * Appeared on Rogers G4techTV Canada’s “Call For Help with Leo Laporte” and “Tech Books” as an expert on podcasting
    * Built and maintained the cross platform application engine using Python
    * Worked with 3rd party companies on licensing deals
  • Dec 2000 - Jan 2007

    Developer - Internal Tools / Genesys Conferencing

    * Created automation testing tools using Ruby and Python
    * Developed tools to control a number of desktops to perform quality assurance tests
    * Wrote Windows installation packages for software using InstallShield
    * Maintained source repository using Borland Software’s StarTeam
    * Maintained a wiki and forum software to foster better communication in the development team
  • Jan 1996 - Dec 2000

    Software Support / Symantec

    * Was technical lead for software support of: Winfax, The URLabs product line, and Procomm
    * Developed online tutorials using Macromedia Director
    * Became technical advisor for this group
  • Dec 1993 - 1996

    Gold Disk/Astound Inc / Software Support / QA

    * Software support for a large number of Windows & Macintosh software
    * Performed Quality Assurance duties
    * Developed a number of in-house tools to automate various tasks

Education

  • 1997 - 1998

    Sheridan College

Additional information

Honors:
The software iPodderX/Transistr - that I co-wrote - has received a number of glowing reviews.
Interests:
podcasting, syndication technologies (rss/atom), python, scaling, nosql database technologies, wikis, & other great new technology
Resume

Answers

  • ray, please can I email you about your use of rabbitmq when you were at mahalo? one of our guys is going there this week, and would love to talk with people using rabbitmq and/or cassandra. if you can help please contact me at alexis@rabbitmq.com :-)

    sure email me at ray.slakinski@gmail.com anytime
    Asked by Formspring
    44 hours ago

  • Where would you like to spend your retirement?

    Working on cool interesting tech ideas, I dont think I can ever truly retire
    Asked by Formspring
    44 hours ago

Ask a question

Ask a Question