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 |
| @anatolysp | |
| Resume | |
| Blog | Anatoly's Programming Blog |
| 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. In April 2013 wrote a book on Eclipse Application Testing.
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
Seneca Courses Anatoly was Enrolled Summer 2011
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
- DCN455 - Data Communication Networks
- INT422 - Web Programming on Windows
- JAC444 - Programming with Java
- SYS466 - Analysis and Design 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 was enrolled Winter 2012
Blogging
Anatoly is known in Online community under many nicknames. His bloggin, scripting and chatting career started in early 2000 with IRC nick Goldstar .
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.
Being a huge cooking fan Anatoly is frequently posting pictures of dishes, restaurant reviews and recipes.
Also being a big technology fan, Anatoly shares interesting information on different companies and their products in his twitter and blog.
In 2010 Anatoly opened his first professional blog: Anatoly's Programing Blog where he shares his programming experience. Blog is updated weekly
In 2011 Anatoly started category Project Big Blue Button in his Programing Blog
It increased blog traffic by 200%. In October 2011 blog was visited by 2000 people.
In 2 years blog has been visited by more than 100 000 people.
In October 2011 Anatoly opened his public LinkedIn account where he publicly shares his work experience and projects with friends, colleagues and potential employers.
Work
One of the first, and most successful projects of Anatoly was Latvian Torrent Tracker Fat.lv (closed). 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.
In May 2009 Anatoly was involved as a Web Developer and SEO in a Confidential Project, that gave him valuable experience d web development techniques.
In January 2011 Anatoly, with his colleague from Seneca started start-up web project with code name Sparb. Project is temporarily stop due lack of time.
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. After 4 month internship, Anatoly was hired by CDOT to continue his work on Big Blue Button.
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. This worked required knowledge of multiple graphic libraries (GTK+, glib, Cairo, X11), use of JNI (Convert Java code into C), multiple programming languages(C/Java/Bash/xml), knowledge of compilers and much more.
In September 2012 Anatoly's work resulted in successfully building Eclipse on top of GTK+ 3 without any compilation problems (More than 300 compilation errors were resolved). He contributed more than 3 thousand lines to Eclipse platform's source code.
In April 2013 Anatoly co-operated with Packt Publishing and wrote a book on InstantEclipse Testing How-to which is available in 120 countries.
Hobbies
Blogging, gadgets, Muay Thai, tennis, guitar, cooking,programming,philosophy, Russian literature.
Favorite Quotes
Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today! (James Dean)
Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam
Be yourself, no matter what they say! (Sting)
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. (Jimmi Hendrix)
To be Continued
Schedule for Winter 2012
Schedule for Winter 2013
