Software Engineer at Twitter
Seattle, Washington
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer II
July 2013 to Present
Greater Seattle Area
Northbridge Financial Corporation
IT Consultant
July 2011 to July 2013
Toronto, Canada Area
OpenSourcePortfolio.com
Founder and Lead Developer
January 2011 to July 2013
Toronto, Canada Area
PYX
Programmer
April 2011 to August 2011
Northbridge Financial Corporation
Programmer
August 2008 to July 2011
Toronto, Canada Area
- Working on Bing Ads platform. Utilizing KnockoutJS, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC with Web API. - Created BDD style unit tests using Mocha testing library and Karma, and automatic test runner. - Utilized AMD style modules together with RequireJS to create a more modular and independent components. - Working on Bing Ads platform. Utilizing KnockoutJS, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC with Web API. - Created BDD style unit tests using Mocha testing library and Karma, and automatic test runner. - Utilized AMD style modules together with RequireJS to create a more modular and independent components.
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Full stack web developerSoftware Development Engineer II @ - Working on Bing Ads platform. Utilizing KnockoutJS, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC with Web API. - Created BDD style unit tests using Mocha testing library and Karma, and automatic test runner. - Utilized AMD style modules together with RequireJS to create a more modular and independent components. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Greater Seattle AreaIT Consultant @ - Implemented a style guide for a company wide look using LESS, a dynamic CSS superset and a modified version of Bootstrap. - Transitioned newer application development away from the server to the client side using Javascript and jQuery library together with standards based AJAX, HTML and CSS/LESS. - Acted as the go to person for inquiries related to modernizing and implementing up to date technologies in web applications. - Consulted multiple departments regarding best practices for implementation, frameworks and design pattern choices when creating client and server applications. - Modernized major applications by updating their adherence to HTML5 standards. From July 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 1 month) Toronto, Canada AreaFounder and Lead Developer @ - Designed and built a full web application using current HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, targeting modern browsers. - Built the front end using Google’s AngularJS; a MVC-like framework. - Transitioned the UI look and feel from standard ASP.NET controls, to custom built Javascripts controls, JQuery UI controls and finally to current Twitter Bootstrap look and feel. - Used AJAX and JSONP protocol with Yahoo Query Language (YQL) to pull live stock and company data from multiple sources and combined them on the client into usable JSON form. - Transitioned the database from standard relational MySQL database with nHibernate as an ORM to MongoDB’s document based model to better reflect the data structure. - Ported the application server from ASP.NET MVC 4 to Node.js on top of Windows Azure infrastructure. Tools: C#, ASP.NET, Node.JS, AngularJS, Bootstrap, JQuery, JQuery UI, MySql, MongoDB. From January 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 7 months) Toronto, Canada AreaProgrammer @ - Developed and maintained a large commercial application written in Java using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). - Prepared application documentation and tracked working hours using JIRA. - Maintained code quality using Subversion repository and TortoiseSVN. - Performed acceptance testing using Selenium software testing framework. - Maintained clean CSS design by unifying and refactoring server side CSS generating classes. - Designed a user web interface to simplify the interaction with the application. - Automated the creation of reports with JasperReports Tools: Java, Google Web Toolkit, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JasperReports, SVN, Selenium. From April 2011 to August 2011 (5 months) Programmer @ - Created numerous ASP.NET web applications using the standard Web Forms display engine as well as the newer Microsoft MVC framework. - Designed back-end database structures with SQL Server and LINQ to SQL ORM. - Extensively used the MVC design pattern to develop desktop, and web applications; particularly in the development of client side Javascript code. - Maintained a local SVN repository of all the projects for security and maintainability of the code. - Redesigned several existing application to adhere to HTML5 and CSS3 standards and better browser independence. - Maintained and updated crucial legacy C, C++, Java, and ASP applications. Tools: VB.Net, C#, LINQ, SQL Server, Java, C/C++, classic ASP, ASP.NET Web Forms/MVC, jQuery, AJAX, HTML, CSS, LESS, Javascript. From August 2008 to July 2011 (3 years) Toronto, Canada AreaB. Sc. Hons, Computer Science @ University of Toronto From 2004 to 2008 Leon Tager is skilled in: JavaScript, MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, jQuery UI, AngularJS, HTML 5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Windows Azure, SOAP, Web Services API, Web Services, REST, XSLT, XML, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework, LINQ, NHibernate, Node.js, jQuery Mobile, Backbone.js, GWT, NUnit, Tortoise SVN, Visual SVN, Git, Mono, MongoDB, CSS, HTML, Java
What company does Leon Tager work for?
Leon Tager works for Microsoft
What is Leon Tager's role at Microsoft?
Leon Tager is Software Development Engineer II
What industry does Leon Tager work in?
Leon Tager works in the Information Technology and Services industry.
Who are Leon Tager's colleagues?
Leon Tager's colleagues are Akshay Gupta, Clive Carlton, Kevin Goodier, Baoyue Wang, Meeks, Kali, Anna Sulkina, Andy Wei, Julien Delange, David McIntyre, and Xiao Zhu
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