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Abdul QabizThank you for your interest to learn more about me. I appreciate that.

About Me:

I am Abdul Qabiz (@abdulqabiz) from Kanpur, India.

This is my personal blog and I write about software, programming, technology, and my other experiences (entrepreneurship, business, etc).

When I am away from keyboard, I spend time with family (friends), riding my motorcycle (short/long tours), or having coffee at my favourite cafe while reading something.

I also spend time organising and participating in a few local meetups (Docker, WordPress, HackerSpace).

I love connecting with like-minded people, please check out the right-sidebar to see different ways to connect to me.

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Background:

I am a passionate self-taught computer programmer and have many years' experience in software and product development. I have years of experience in software development, software/web/internet technologies, and various tools; however, for most part of my early years of career, I have enjoyed building awesome rich (internet) applications for Macromedia (Adobe) Flash Platform using ActionScript, Flex, AIR and FlashLite along with other web-technologies (middle-wares, remoting, server-side, socket-servers, etc.).

I got involved with FOOS in 2006, and since then I love contributing, using and talking about FOOS. I thank to many people, specially Manish Jethani and some ex Yahoo!  India developers who used to blog on livejournal, for inspiring me to get into FOSS.

I am cofounder of Allies Interactive where I spend time doing software development, and leading a team of software developers.

We have helped various internet startups by taking care of their entire technology roadmap and implementation.

Following is what we have been spending time for last 4-5 years:

In past, I worked with

Areas I have been working on for years:

software architecture, distributed computing, cloud computing (iaas, paas, saas, ipaas),  video encoding, video strategy, digital rights management, open-source software, web technologies, web standards, web strategy, rich internet applications (ria), adobe flash platform (flash, flex, air, flashlite, actionscript), entrepreneurship, development process, startups, social media, branding and identity

languages/technologies/tools: actionscript, javascript, python, ruby, php, java, c++, c#, flash, flex, air, flashlite, php, symfony, node.js, sinatra, http, html, css, cms, crm, wordpress, subversion, git, ffmpeg, x264, widevine, adobe access, aws, docker, vagrant, gnu/linux, etc.

Please check out my LinkedIn profile for more details.