User:Aspektors

Anatoly Spektor
Born	Anatolijs Spektors (9 May 1988) Latvia, Riga
Residence	Toronto, ON, CA
Occupation	Seneca Student Web Developer Software Engineer
Life Credo	Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam (from Latin: I shall either find a way or make one)
Official Website	anatolyspektor.com
Twitter	@anatolysp
LinkedIn	Resume
Blog	Anatoly's Programming Blog
Email	MailMe

Anatoly Spektor (Latvian Spelling: Anatolijs Spektors, Russian: Анатoлий Спектор) is a Blogger, Web Developer and Software Engineer. Currently enrolled in Seneca College of Art and Technology CPAC (Computer Programming and Analysis Co-op), where he also worked in a position of a Web Developer. Currently Anatoly is working as Software Engineer in Red Hat as part of Eclipse team. Anatoly is also involved in several start-up web projects, that are planned to be launched in 2012-2013.

Anatoly's Online Resume on LinkedIn
Official Website - anatolyspektor.com

Currently...

Working as Software Engineer in Red Hat as part of Eclipse team on migration of Eclipse SWT from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3.x

Previous College Activity

Courses

• OOP344 - Object Oriented Programming II Using C++
• INT322 - Internet II - Web Programming on UNIX
• DBS301 - Database Design II and SQL using Oracle
• SYS366 - Requirements Gathering using OO Models

Seneca Courses Anatoly was Enrolled Fall 2011

In Fall 2011 Anatoly worked his first Co-Op term in CDOT




Seneca Courses Anatoly is currently Enrolled

• DCN455 - Data Communication Networks
• INT422 - Web Programming on Windows
• JAC444 - Programming with Java
• SYS466 - Analysis and Design using OO Models

Blogging

<p> Anatoly is known in the Russian Internet under many nicknames. His blogging and chatting career started in early 2000 with IRC nick Goldstar . In 2005 he opened his first  blog in LiveJournal under nickname: Glamurny.  Word "Glamurny" is derived from the word "glamorous". Blog audience is  fashion and high-tech addicts, who are seeking information on latest fashion trends and technological inventions. Blog has more than 300 subscribers and is visited by one thousand people monthly. </p>
 <p> Last few years Anatoly has became a frequent twitter blogger. In 2 years he has tweeted more than 1400 tweets. His bilingual twitter account (Russian and English) is public, so everyone can read his tweets without having to register in Twitter. </p> 

 <p> Being a huge cooking fan Anatoly  is frequently posting pictures of dishes, restaurant reviews and recipes.</p>
 <p> Also being an Apple Inc product fan , Anatoly shares  interesting information on companies products in his twitter and  livejournal blog. </p> 
<p> In 2010 Anatoly opened his first professional blog: Anatoly's Programing Blog where he shares his programming experience. Blog is updated weekly</p>

<p> In 2011 Anatoly started category Project Big Blue Button in his Programing Blog </p>
<p> It increased blog traffic by 200%. In October 2011 blog was visited by 2000 people. </p>
<p>In October 2011 Anatoly opens his public LinkedIn account.</p>

Work

<p> One of the first, and most successful  projects of Anatoly was  Latvian Torrent Tracker Fat.lv. Together with the founder of Fat.lv  Anatoly increased websites traffic  from hundred to ten thousand  daily visitors, and more than hundred thousand registered users, making [ http://fat.lv] second torrent tracker in Latvia by the amount of visitors and registered users.</p>
<p> In  May 2009 Anatoly was involved as a Project Manager, Web Developer and Search Engine Optimizator in a Confidential Project, that gave him great  insight in project development and web development techniques. </p> 
<p> In January 2011 Anatoly, with his colleague from Seneca started project with code name Sparb </p>
<p> In September 2011 Anatoly started  internship semester as a Web Developer in Seneca Center for Development of Open Technology, working on a collaborative project between Seneca and Big Blue Button on creating  powerful  online class management system. </p>
<p> In May 2012 Anatoly started his work as Software Engineer in Red Hat Canada working as part of Eclipse team on migration of Eclipse's Standard Widget Toolkit from Gtk+ 2.x to Gtk+ 3.x </p>

Hobbies

<p>Blogging, guitar, cooking,programming,tennis, gym, philosophy, Russian literature, gadgets.</p> 

Favorite Quotes

<p> Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today! (James Dean) </p>
<p> Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam </p>
<p> Be yourself, no matter what they say! (Sting)</p> 
<p>When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. (Jimmi Hendrix)</p>
    <p>To be Continued</p>




Schedule for Winter 2012