To follow my passion which is writing my own applications and running, I decide to leave  Unboxed, where I had really great time. I was there almost 2 years and during that time I learn a lot, met lot of interesting people and work on lot of different types of projects. This is list of my projects that I was working on and my role.

education.skype.com

simple platform, designed to enable teachers to connect, share their resources and start collaborative projects. Winner of Core 77 design award 2011. Responsibilities included:

• Lead Back-end developer and Technical Architect
• Performance optimisation for current 14000 active users
• Skype API integration (Authentication)
• integration with Amazon S3, SES (Emailing service), EC2 (Cloud hosting)

Skype New Year Eve

To bring in 2011 Skype launched an HTML5 site that tracked NYE as it happened around the world. Users uploaded videos to YouTube via the site which, in turn, were displayed on an interactive timezone map of the world. The site was designed to work across multiple platforms in including mobile and tablet optimisations. Responsibilities included:

• Lead Back-end developer and Technical Architect
• YouTube API integration with download performance optimisation

Skype Theme

Skype Theme is site where Skype Apple users can upload themes for Skype UI. Responsibilities included:

• improvement of unsecured parts of application. Based on Security report from independent agency.

Extra special trust

The ExtraSpecial Trust is charity that offers small personal grants towards some of life’s important extras to help make a wish come true. Responsibilities included:

• finishing of html templates
• deployment set up for Heroku
• Amazon S3 integration

Edna (Channel 5)

The Edna is programme database. It has been design to streamline the working processes of the Digital Media team. It provides sources programme, series, episode, cast and VOD availability data from a variety of sources for different sites. Responsibilities included:

• integration with Movida (programme database)
• export dat in XML and JSON – contained information are based on type if requested player or platfiorm

If you are interested to work with me you can sand me an email to petr(at)zaparka(dot)cz or if you are just interested what am I up to just follow me on twitter @zaparka