Tanzim Saqib is a .NET Architect consultant, who won Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional” award couple times. He helped British Telecom build Web 2.0 for Business SaaS architectures complex widget ecosystem, hybrid MVC, and CMS Framework for their 3.5M customer-base. He was awarded Microsoft “MVP” for exceptional technical contribution and leadership in the community.

In 7 years in professional software development, he worked for companies like personalized Web 2.0 start-page Pageflakes, Vancouver based Sitemasher, a SaaS CMS platform and .NET controls developer Telerik. In addition, he developed many applications for ranging from financial institutions to university automation system. He is an open source activist and technology speaker. He holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering.

Contact

Email: me at FirstnameLastname dot com | Facebook | Twitter: TanzimSaqib | LinkedIn. He is unavailable for consulting at the moment.

Interests

While he is not jamming with the latest technologies, he contributes to open source projects, writes articles for the community, and blogs.  He currently lives in Bangladesh, and able to move anywhere on professional demand. He loves Food-o-graphy, photography as well as Lomography.

Experience

Huge line of experience summarized above. Should you need in detail, please send him an email.

Technical Book Reviews

He officially reviewed and ensured technical correctness of the book, LINQ to Objects using C# 4.0 by Addison-Wesley Professional.

Source Available/Open Source projects

He created the following source available projects:

NoBrainer: It is an MVC + CMS Framework, as its name suggests for low-fi developers and savvy business stakeholders. It provides developers the flexibility of MVC as well as the control of WebForm, resulting in a testable and content manageable WebForm infrastructure for you application. NoBrainer currently supports only Web at the launch, however it can easily be extended to work with Desktop as well as Mobile. That way your logic and test code remain the same across different UI layers.

News Framework: News Framework is an open source offline news reading framework on which any RSS based news website can have its own Windows Phone 7 application in just minutes. The configuration, content and styles can be managed from outside of the framework itself to fit the needs.

Cassini 4.0: Cassini is now an open source, portable and redistributable web server. This light-weight Microsoft’s source available web server is used to be shipped with Visual Studio as integrated development server. Saqib has revived Cassini in version 4.0 with many new features.

MyStream: He is the creator of the first lifestreaming portal framework in ASP.NET 4.0, MyStream. Lifestream is a time ordered stream of activities, that functions as a diary of your electronic “social” life. In this Web 2.0 era, you get to use Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Flickr, write blog posts, keep your friends up to date, and you are curious about what your friends are up to, too. Read on how it was built.

Open source projects that he contributed to: Dropthings and AspectF.

Public Speaking

Saqib is a technology speaker. He spoke on :

• Microsoft-PRIYO.com Windows Phone App Contest Workshop 1 at Microsoft Bangladesh on February 18, 2012
• 50+ Windows Phone App Ideas at Microsoft-PRIYO.com Windows Phone App Contest kick-off session, on February 11, 2012
• Microsoft SharePoint Community Day on January 7, 2012
• He arranges weekly workshop at Microsoft Bangladesh office on Building Windows Phone Apps started from December 12, 2011
• Windows Phone Workshop at United International University on September 25, 2011
• Hosted “Open Source in .NET | Open Day” a daylong conference sponsored by Microsoft on September 24, 2011
  • Session 1: Open Source Softwares in .NET Wilderness
  • Session 2:  Project showcase: No Brainer
• Show me the Moneyat TechFire on June 11, 2011.
• Imagine Cup 2011 Mega Bootcamp in Dhaka on April 9, 2011.
• Developing Windows Phone 7 Apps and a Panel discussion at IEEE S-Pac & Alumni Fest-2010, KUETin Khulna on Dec 4, 2010.
• C# 4.0 Demystified at Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Community Launchin Dhaka on May 8, 2010.
• Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data, Futures] on June 20th, 2009 at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka.

Technical Articles

Parallelizing Windows Applications in .NET 4.0
Published: May 6, 2010

Social Lifestreaming with ASP.NET 4.0
Published: August 2009
Awarded “Article of the month August 2009 in C# category” by readers’ votes.
Awarded “Article of the month August 2009 in overall category” by readers’ votes.

DropZone: A Database-less Secured File Storage using OpenID
Published: June 2009

Building ASP.NET applications for Windows Azure
Published: November 2008

Cloudship: ASP.NET Membership Provider for the Cloud
Published: November 2008

7 ways to do Performance Optimization of an ASP.NET 3.5 Web 2.0 portal
Published: February 2008

Client-side Best Practices
Published: January 2008

Building a Volta Control : A Flickr Widget
Published: January 2008

Imagine Cup 2011

He was one of the judges of Imagine Cup 2011 Bangladesh, and traveled with the team, first ever to participate from Bangladesh, as a Technical Advisor to New York for the World Finals. The team won People’s Choice Award.

ACM Problemsetting

Saqib is the youngest problemsetter of very prestigious ACM UVa Online Programming Contest. He set this Number Theory based problem “Mr. Azad and his son!!!!!” when he was only 18.