Welcome to my Page. I work at AboutUs as a software engineer.

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I did my BS with majors in Computer Science from FAST Lahore in 2005. I like working on large scale distributed systems. My area of interests are Distributed Systems and Information Retrieval. I like to architect, design and develop such systems. I have recently been more interested in Web 2.0 startups....

Affiliations: Software Engineer

Location: Lahore Pakistan

Phone: +923214009007 - +923444506580

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• WhoisRefresh
• DevelopmentPriorities
• Rewrite PageScrapeBot
• CAPTCHA For LinkSpam
• InfluenceUs

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• http://craphound.com/down

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Team Leader

• Make sure we have proper discipline in the office
• Make sure that everyone is adding value to the code base
• Help people choose projects
• Make sure that they are in a good pair ... match them up well ... careful about first pair
• Lahore Development team is getting their tasks DoneDone
• Getting the orientation done
• Make sure new hires are up and running
• Lahore Development team training.
• Keep in touch with Brandon to discuss team performance/issues

Software Developer

• Pair with one or two people myself and work on a development project
• Example, WhoisRefresh (whois parsing) gives us better information
• Add value to the code base daily
• Make sure that i am getting my tasks DoneDone during every development cycle(1-15, 16-30).
• Add more value to the 7 or 8 million pages we have right now

Engineering Strategist

• Imagine and describe new DevelopmentTeam Projects and Task
• Prioritize the tasks on the DevelopmentTeamPriorities list during the Distributed Planning Game

Engineering Headhunter

• Call people at the Universities
• Promote open engineering positions on email lists and other forums
• Interview and Select awesome candidates
• Scheduling interviews

AboutUs Promoter

• Invite people to join the AboutUs community.
• Ask people to write about things on AboutUs that they love.

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• Arif Iqbal (delighted) : Using influenceus on windows vista internet explorer 7 22:18, 6 May 2008 (PDT)
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• Arif Iqbal (delighted) : testing on may 1. 02:09, 1 May 2008 (PDT)
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• Arif Iqbal (delighted) : Test Message 02:49, 1 April 2008 (PDT)
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  • Arif Iqbal's reply : Test Reply 02:49, 1 April 2008 (PDT)
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