Islam Ismailov's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Islam is a Fulbright graduate fellow holding a BS degree from Taurida National University, and MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I concentrated on Computer Vision applications in Population Ecology. I was a member of the Glancee team (http://www.glancee.com/), one of the pioneering ambient location based social network apps, which was acquired by Facebook in May 2012 (http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/04/facebook-buys-location-based-discovery-app-glancee/). At Facebook, I was working in a team that released the Nearby Friends product (http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/facebook-nearby-friends/), after the release of which, I joined the Parse team to build new products and APIs. Specialties: Software Engineering, Computer Vision, Database Management, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Application Development, Web DevelopmentSoftware Engineer @ Part of the team that released the Nearby Friends product (http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/facebook-nearby-friends/). I worked on the Location backend and the Facebook Android app. After the release of Nearby Friends, I joined the Parse team to build new products and APIs. From February 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Software Engineer @ Working on LiveRail backend. From January 2015 to Present (11 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Engineer @ I built the backend and was a tech lead for the Parse Crash Reporting product released in the end of 2014. See the official company blog post for more details, http://blog.parse.com/2014/12/09/introducing-parse-crash-reporting-2/ From January 2014 to January 2015 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomResearch Assistant @ Designed and implemented an automated system that can detect and identify zebras from the digital photographs. From August 2012 to December 2012 (5 months) Greater Chicago AreaGoogle Summer of Code 2012 @ Implemented a new polynomial time algorithm designed to calculate the probability of a ranked gene tree topology for a given species tree. From May 2012 to August 2012 (4 months) Software Engineer @ Early (pre-funding) employee, on par with co-founders of the company participated in making Glancee a successful startup, taking part in crucial company discussions and decisions. Held meetings with perspective investors and advisers of the company, worked on designing and building technology behind the Android version of the application, and wrote for the company blog, helping to enhance its online presence. From December 2010 to October 2011 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMaster of Science, Computer Science @ University of Illinois at Chicago From 2010 to 2012 Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics @ Taurida 'V. I. Vernadskiy' National University, Simferopol From 2006 to 2010 Islam Ismailov is skilled in: Java, C++, C, Python, Android, SQL, Git, Data Mining, Algorithms, Data Analysis, Web Development, Computer Science, Databases, Software Engineering, Machine Learning