Bio & Resume

Dinshaw C. Gobhai | Download Resume | Employment History

I was born in 1973 and am originally from Boston. I now live in the mid-town-west neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. I have been working with web technologies since 1999. My non-programming hours are generally spent playing music.

General Skills (a-z): Application Architecture, Communication, Database Design, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Object Oriented Programing, Product Development, Project Management, Search Engine Optimization, Team Management, Usability Testing, User Interface Design.

  • System administration: UNIX, LINUX, OS X, Windows
  • Programming / Scripting Languages: Ruby 1.8/1.9, PHP 5.x, Java 1.5, ActionScript 3.0, Javascript / JQuery
  • Frameworks: Rails 2.3.x, Spring, CakePHP, Codeigniter
  • Markup & Display: HAML/SASS, XHTML 1.1 / CSS 2.0, HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, SIFR 3.0
  • Databases: MySQL 5.x, SQLite, SQL Server 2000 & 2005, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, IBM iSeries, IBM AS/400, Oracle
  • Servers: Apache Web Server 2.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x, Webrick, LightHTTPD, Mongrel, Thin, Passenger, NGINX
  • Source Control: GIT (github), Subversion, CVS
  • Project management software: Pivotal Tracker, Trac, Microsoft Project, Lighthouse, Basecamp, Bugzilla, Mantis
  • Content management software: Drupal, OpenCMS, Word Press, Moveable Type, PHPBB, OS Commerce, MIVA, Mambo

Rails specific stuff

  • Testing tools (in order of preference): Shoulda, Cucumber with Webrat & Selenium, Celerity / Culerity, Machinist, Faker, Rspec, TestUnit
  • Other cool stuff I have been doing latley: I18n, Social Network API Integration (Twitter)

Employment History

Much of my work over the last 5 years has been project work and is listed in the projects section.

PCGI

January, 2007 - Current

CTO

Co-designer, lead developer, and part owner of the PCGI web portal.
Responsible for construction and maintenance of the site.

Bantam

May, 2009 - Current

Developer

Social CRM in the Real-Time Stream

Start an online workspace with the public-beta version of Bantam to communicate, share information, and manage relationships inside and outside your organization.

LearningTimes / Intuit

March, 2007 - January, 2008

Web Master for Intuit Kids n' Money Web application

Maintenance and modification of PHP / OpenCMS hybrid application.

Behavior Design

July, 2006 - March, 2007

Software Engineer

Project scope, specification and development; server side development; 3rd party application integration; UNIX system administration; client relations.

Algorithmic Creations

July, 2003 - July, 2006

Project Manager, Developer

Project manager; team leader for 4 – 10 person development team; designed and implemented numerous internal tools using new web technologies; client and server side development and maintenance.

Click & Buy / WebPay

September, 2001 - July, 2003

Developer, Project Manager

Primary client side developer and team leader for a 6 – 10 person development team; built, maintained and enhanced multiple web sites providing small businesses with payment and banking services.

Heavy.com

October, 2000 - August, 2001

Software Engineer

Client and server side development; coding and delivery of the Heavygram, a design oriented, weekly HTML email; created multiple stand alone web sites with various levels of server side functionality