Ilya Braude Application 2011

I'm Ilya Braude and I am reapplying for XSF membership.

History
I am a developer with an MS in Computer Science in Philadelphia. I've had the pleasure of writing software under several domains over the years, including network management, ad-hoc wireless networking, and most recently, first responder situation awareness.

XMPP Projects
At my current position as Lead Software Engineer at Drakontas LLC, I have spent a lot of time writing XMPP client and server software during the last three years.

I've used and am very familiar with Strophe.js, Idavoll/Wokkel, Smack. I also implemented a J2ME client from scratch.


 * Contributions
 * A set of plugins for Strophe.js that includes MUC, PubSub, and others that especially make it easy to work with incoming stanzas: https://github.com/zanchin/strophejs.
 * An interview post on applications we've built with XMPP.

XMPP - Why I like it
It's been really interesting to me to see a growing community of people using XMPP for applications that are not just about chat, and it's great to be a part of it. XMPP really excels at uses beyond IM in ways that other protocols (chat or not) can't.

Why I'm reapplying
Having greatly benefited from XMPP both as a technology and as a community, I try to give back. I've done this by contributing code to the XMPP open source community, and by participating in the XSF processes. And I would like to continue to be part of the community.

Contact Info

 * Name: Ilya Braude
 * JID: [xmpp:ilya@drakontas.com ilya@drakontas.com] (Company), [xmpp:ilya@ilyabraude.com ilya@ilyabraude.com] (Personal)
 * Email: [mailto:ilya@drakontas.com ilya@drakontas.com] (Company), [mailto:ilya@ilyabraude.com ilya@ilyabraude.com] (Personal)
 * Company: Drakontas LLC