I have more than 8 years of extensive experience in development and management of secure, robust, and stable web applications using latest technologies including Linux, Apache, PHP, RoR, MySQL, AJAX, and Flash Media technologies. I am an expert in optimization and security audits of web 2.0 applications. I am a big supporter of open source technologies and have been contributing into some of the open source projects based on PHP.

I have worked on several rich internet applications involving clusters of database servers, and web servers. I am an expert in website speed optimization using latest techniques ranging from op-code level caching to server distribution. Using my diversified and in-depth skills in the field of rich internet application development, I have been managing development teams professionally and delivering quality outputs.

I have deployed many projects on computing clouds specially Amazon Web Services by utilizing the following services (EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, RDS, CloudWatch). I have deployed many applications on AWS to achieve high scalability, availability, and reliability of the application.

I have worked a lot with the following tools and technologies over the past 8 years.
PHP, RoR, Python, Flash, Flex, Flash Media Server, Red5, CodeIgniter, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AJAX, JQuery, YUI, CSS.

I can be reached at amirbilal at gmail dot com .