NKO Resume - Aashay Desai

Hi! This is my NKO resume. I'm using this to tell you a little bit about myself so you can decide whether or not we'd be a good fit together for Node Knockout. If you'd like to tell me more about yourself, you can fork this!

About me

I'm a software engineer in Quality on the Salesforce.com API team by day, and a co-founder of AnonyMouse by night. I use Node.JS for the latter and I'm always looking to improve my NodeFu. I've been using Node.JS for about 6 months.

I graduated in 2007 from the University of Illinois with a BS in General Engineering, and did a stint at a consulting company before my current job.

I live in San Francisco and I love music.

Connect with me on Twitter or GitHub.

Projects

• AnonyMouse - Mentoring platform (code is private at the moment)
• StreamForce - tiny demo for Force.com Streaming API (Cometd/Bayeux API), still in progress
• Hack For Change/AnonyMouse - SMS based demo of AnonyMouse, 2nd place winner at Change.org's Hack For Change hackathon. Probably your best bet if you want to see some existing Node.JS code.
• Random Stuff on GitHub - A few random things including a couple of tiny Ruby projects

Node stuff I've used:

• Mongoose - ORM for MongoDB
• Socket.IO - The realtime framework we all know and love...
• NowJS - An interesting RPC abstraction on top of Socket.IO
• Faye - Bayeux Pub/sub for Node
• ExpressJS - Popular web microframework
• Connect - Middleware framework for Node (used in Express)
• Restler - Rest client
• bcrypt - Blowfish encrpytion for passwords
• oauth - Oauth lib
• EJS - Templating syntax similar to Ruby on Rails' ERB

Other stuff I've used

• APIS: Twilio, Force.com, MongoLabs
• Databases: MongoDb, MySQL (although it's been a while)
• Frontend: MooTools, jQuery (although I prefer the former)
• Misc Tools: Git/GitHub (duh), CampFire, Pivotal Tracker,

Stuff I want to try

• Redis (planning on using this for a current project but haven't gotten around to it)
• Riak (exploring this as an alternative to MongoDB)
• CoffeeScript (already reading the book)
• Twitter/Facebook/GitHub APIs (I love APIs.)

Ideas I'm interested in

I like working on web apps with real-time components that are useful to people. I have a vague social-ish app idea that I need to hash out a bit more.

I think it might be cool to make a music-related app (as in, making music, not finding it).

I'd love to make a game but I don't have a lot of UI development experience. I love games though!

About You

I love to work with great designers. I'm pretty UX focused so I'll do whatever it takes to make sure my users are happy.

If you're a designer looking for developers or a developer interested in what you see here, let's get in touch!

Also, if you have an existing team and you could use some more help, lets talk!