Networks

Introduction

I am a software architect/entrepreneur that excels at analyzing business problems that can benefit from the use of software technology. I enjoy working on the "big picture" , but I equally enjoy being a hands-on technology architect/developer.

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What is the project/startup you're working on now? Tell us a little bit about it.

I am doing preliminary modeling for a startup that would provide a set of services to make a specific b2b market dramatically more efficient. It involves giving buyers tools to transform a market that is currently very opaque into something much more transparent. Secondarily, it will serve sellers, especially smaller sellers and market newcomers, to help them develop a well deserved reputation for quality products and good service. Some of the services will focus on creating a community where sellers will share information for mutual benefit. Users, both buyers and sellers, will use these services through an intuitive interface, either with a web client or a mobile application. The "back end" for these services will be highly scalable and cost-efficient by leveraging commodity cloud hosting services and powerful open source frameworks and tools.

If you have a company URL, please post it here. We'd love to be able to check it out.

Still in serious stealth mode. ;-)

What technologies excite you?

Functional programming languages, specifically ones that support the Actor model for concurrency (e.g Scala, Erlang). I am very excited by a couple of PaaS platforms, OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. I am evaluation a number of very interesting IaaS tools such as Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Chef for efficiently deploying, managing and automating a cloud infrastructure. Finally, I am very interested in NoSQL databases (e.g Hadoop, MongoDB, and CouchD) to help solve either Big Data or reliable replication problems.

What Roy Feldman is saying about this Meetup Group

I have little to base an opinion other than the hosts were helpful and friendly.