Ariel Vardi

All I want is a yard, a dog, and a good book.

Founder of everyspot.com and broowaha.com. I am found of Mark Z. Danielewski, Bruno Schultz, Mars Volta, and apple slices dipped in caramel.

Posts

May 04, 05:20 PM

Fleet Foxes - The Shrine / An Argument (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (by subpoprecords)

April 09, 07:30 PM

iwdrm:

“It’s a documentary! It’s all really happening!”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

March 14, 08:27 PM

designhiccups:

These are invitations I did for a friend. At the request of the bride, for her beach wedding, she wanted a whale and ocean theme. Her new last name is Dewale—get it?

March 13, 05:32 AM

designhiccups:

This is a bookshelf I made. There’s only one.

March 13, 01:22 AM

disparatedesign:

This is a portrait of Stuart, he is a coworking coworker with me at NextSpace. He is a Brony (Bro + My little pony). He also has impressive facial hair and I imagine him in a viking helmet. Possibly because his coffee cup hook name is Barbarian Horse Lord.

March 12, 05:59 PM

unclegrimace:

March 12, 04:20 PM

booxiedoox:

This is a logo for a lawyer/wine enthusiast who loves to rant about wine. It’s for his blog I am forcing him to do.

February 04, 03:32 PM

beatboxgoesthump:

i have absolutely no idea why this made me laugh so hard

February 04, 03:28 PM
January 17, 06:14 AM
January 17, 05:34 AM

nzafro:

Eject.

January 17, 05:26 AM
January 17, 05:24 AM

nzafro:

Notre Dame Cathedral.

January 17, 05:22 AM
January 16, 05:13 AM
January 16, 05:03 AM
January 16, 04:48 AM

Paris by night

January 16, 04:43 AM

Gare Du Nord

January 16, 04:40 AM

Le ciel de paris

January 16, 04:29 AM

beatboxgoesthump:

i should live here

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Profile

Ariel Vardi
Founder at EverySpot | Lead Engineer at Electronic Arts
Computer Games | Greater Los Angeles Area, US

Summary

Founder of BrooWaha.com and EverySpot.com

MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech
Entrepreneurial mind, interested in leading Internet projects
Specialties: Web Application design, Game Development, Project Management, Operating Systems, Distributed Computing, Embedded Systems, J2ME, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Facebook API, OpenSocial API, Java, J2EE, JBoss, Oracle Coherence, Memcached

Experience

  • Mar 2010 - Present
    Founder / EverySpot
    Designed, implemented and launched www.everyspot.com, the 1st social destination for action sports enthusiasts. www.everyspot.com
  • Mar 2008 - Present
    Lead Software Engineer / EA Mobile
    - Lead team of engineers located in Los Angeles and India building and maintaining a multiplayer framework supporting a dozen of high traffic iOS, Android, and Facebook titles, including Scrabble, Mirror's Edge, Theme Park, Monopoly Hotels, Simpsons: Tapped Out, etc. - Supported titles with 1M+ DAUs, and 5000+ requests per seconds - Lead live support and operations on production servers - Acted as liaison between framework engineers and external developers using our product - Participated in project and resource management tasks
  • Jun 2007 - Present
    Founder / BrooWaha LLC
    - Designed, implemented and launched BrooWaha.com, the 1st citizen newspaper network - Featured in the Los Angeles Times - Sold majority share to blogcatalog.com
  • Jun 2006 - Present
    Software Engineer / EA Mobile
    - Embed Projects Lead Engineer - Designed and implemented innovative billing solution for open markets - Strong knowledge in mobile game design and deployment
  • Jun 2005 - Present
    Deployment Engineer / Jamdat Mobile
    - Designed and developed embedded applications in the mobile gaming industry. - Worked with cell phone carriers and manufacturers on prototypes and new billing processes.
  • Jun 2004 - Present
    Web development / Interactive Planet
    - Developed a web-oriented application managing health insurance customers. Designed a portal enabling access to different functionalities depending on the user level. Used ASP (VBscript) and Microsoft SQL Server - Lead the creation and maintenance of high-end database powered e-business solutions as well as some ASP programming and web server administration running IIS
  • Aug 2003 - Present
    Embedded software developer / Qualimucho Media
    In charge of the creation of embedded java applications for mobile phones. Designed intuitive interfaces appropriate for limited devices. Developed and deployed whole applications. Managed the customer relations. Trained new employees Used Java MIDP 1.0 and 2.0 as well as additional multimedia embedded APIs. Involved in the specifications and development of the MMS Postcard service, now commercialized by SFR, the leading French telecom services provider Used Perl for server-side batch scripts as well as for CGI-scripts
  • 2002 - Present
    Software Engineer / Qualimucho

Education

  • 2005 - 2006
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    MS in Advanced Internet Applications, Natural Language Processing, Management, Entrepreneurship
  • 2002 - 2005
    Université de Technologie de Compiègne
    Engineer in CS, major in Systems and Networks

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