General
- Name: Jiayong Ou
- Currently in: Zurich, Switzerland
- Birthday: 28 June 1984
- Nationality: Swiss
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Profile
A web developer with experience in both front-end and back-end development on high traffic websites since 2005. Worked with Ruby, PHP and JavaScript professionally. Open Source sympathiser. Geek. Loves the web.
Skills (a.k.a. Buzzwords ;-)
In no particular order
- Programming Language: Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, XSLT
- Framework: Ruby on Rails, Camping, Zend Framework, Prototype, YUI
- Testing: RSpec, PHPUnit
- Markup: (X)HTML, CSS, haml, XML
- Version Control: SVN, git
- Content Management: serendipity, ikiwiki
- Sysadmin: Linux (Debian, Gentoo, Arch Linux), Apache
- Natural Language: German (native), English (fluent), Chinese (spoken; Cantonese and Mandarin)
Work experience
Web Developer at YMC AG in Kreuzlingen
May 2009 - Current
Keywords: PHP, ezComponents, ezPublish, CMS
Rails Developer at restorm AG in Zürich
Nov 2008 - Feb 2009
Keywords: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Prototype
- Galleries with SWFUpload based uploader, picture display in a lightbox with bookmarkable URLs and keyboard navigation.
Software Architect/Web Developer at tilllate Management AG in Adliswil
May 2007 - Oct 2008
Keywords: PHP, Zend Framework, JavaScript, Prototype, YUI
- Contributed to migration of tilllate.com to Zend Framework
- Design and Implementation of core libraries (e.g. Database Abstraction (PDO), Image Handling (ImageMagick), Search (Sphinx))
- Porting of legacy code to the new framework
- Contributed to redesign of the web page
- JavaScript widgets with Prototype and YUI
- Content Management for news and articles
Web Developer at Swiss Television in Zürich
Jul 2005 - Mar 2007
Keywords: PHP, CMS
- Newsletter and Single Sign-on
- Designed and implemented Single Sign-on system. First usage of PHP5 on sf.tv
- Integrated newsletter subscription in user profiles on an InxMail system by SOAP API.
- Configured and integrated a Google Search Appliance into the website.
- Contribubted to redesign of the web page
Personal Projects
Stuff I did in my free time. Everything is available under a MIT license.
- srs.li - Yet Another Url Shortifyer
Yet Another URL Shortifyer powers srs.li, yet another URL shortifiyer. Built on Camping, a Ruby microframework, contained in a 350 line file (plus CSS and a bootstrapper for Rack). - Serendipity Twitter event plugin
A plugin for Serendipity to announce new blog posts on Twitter.