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Alex Astrum  • Peerlist

"Some of Adobe’s top innovators personally coach participants on their journey through the six levels of this lean enterprise innovation process. This is not an exercise. It is not practice. Participants do it for real including validating with actual customers, generating real-world data proving their concepts and presenting results to Adobe senior executives for further funding."

See more at: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobelife/2013/02/27/imagination-sparks-innovation/

Adobe KickStart

Developer on a project made in Drupal, that handled complex scenarios. Application uses Drupal Views for rendering specific pages and areas that were customized and extended according to the requirements. Also it used Drupal Entities in order to create new elements in the application logic. The workflow was mostly focused on extending behaviour using modules and implementing hooks. 
Technologies involved: Drupal, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, CSS.

Virtual Fanatic Web Platform

Created a rich client-side application using AngularJS.

Internal tool for SSO context administration

The purpose of this project is to allow enterprise clients to manage their licenses. 
It also includes an internal admin console.

Responsibilities:
- write code, make calls to other services
- front-end architectural choices and best practices policy making
- LESS styling
- integration of UI component libraries (similar to Bootstrap)
- participate in meetings, defining requirements

Technologies:
- J2EE, Maven, Spring
- TypeScript, RequireJS, Angular, Backbone, jQuery, Karma
- Jenkins CI, AWS

Admin UI

Business Catalyst is an online hosting and site building platform for small and medium businesses. It allows business owners or contractors (BC partners) to build a site to promote the business, and offers pre-built components like shopping cart, payment gateways, online marketing and more, while letting the developer customize them with custom code.

My responsibilities on the project included:
- writing MS SQL stored procedures
- writing Database update and rollback script for the new version
- writing business logic in multiple classes and components
- writing ASP.NET Web pages
- writing unit tests
- code review
- bug fixes
- security scanning
- security fixes (XSS)
- I was responsible with adding CDN support for the Administation Console
- I worked on the spam filtering for comments submitted by users of our clients websites
- integrated with an internal Analytics Engine developed by another team over Hadoop and HBase

The project was developed using Scrum methodologies, bug and feature tracking software and code review software, and Jenkins for Continuous Integration

Technologies used:
C#
Visual Basic .NET
ASP.NET
Memcache
MS SQL
IBM Security AppScan
Akamai
Hadoop
Hbase
Perforce
Jira
Code Collaborator
Jenkins


Business Catalyst

Planned and developed a B2B solution for PAP.
- Used Symfony2 and Doctrine2 for back-end. jQuery UI for front-end.
- Migrated an existent DB with millions of records to Doctrine ORM.
- Web services development using Python.
