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+author: Nazmul Idris
+date: 2016-10-02 17:17:23+00:00
+excerpt: About Nazmul Idris and developerlife.com
+title: Me
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+<table>
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+        <td>
+            <img src="{{ '/assets/nazmul.png' | relative_url }}"/>
+        </td>
+        <td>
+            Hi, I'm <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nazmul+idris">Nazmul</a>
+            I am a Googler, entrepreneur, leader, coder, designer, dancer, TaiChi’er, Yogi, 
+            racer, healer, storyteller. I’m about leadership, authenticity, and empowerment.
+        </td>
+    </tr>
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+- [My story](#my-story)
+- [Leadership and Resourcefulness](#leadership-and-resourcefulness)
+- [Communication](#communication)
+- [Product Design](#product-design)
+- [Software Engineering](#software-engineering)
+  - [Technologies](#technologies)
+  - [Mobile app development toolkits & infrastructure](#mobile-app-development-toolkits--infrastructure)
+  - [Cloud Infrastructure](#cloud-infrastructure)
+  - [Cross platform development toolkits & infrastructure](#cross-platform-development-toolkits--infrastructure)
+  - [Android apps](#android-apps)
+  - [BlackBerry Apps](#blackberry-apps)
+  - [Middleware infrastructure for mobile](#middleware-infrastructure-for-mobile)
+- [Patents and books](#patents-and-books)
+- [About developerlife.com](#about-developerlifecom)
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+
+## My story
+I've brought products to life from a glimmer of a vision to a team building it, 
+to having customers, and eventually seeing the product come to an end. I've 
+worked as part of large and small teams and led them to make impossible things 
+possible.
+
+I have over 20 years of leadership, software engineering, design, and product 
+management experience. As a multifaceted engineer, designer, and communicator, 
+I’ve focused on creating, designing, building, and collaborating with people to 
+bring amazing user experiences to life across multiple platforms.
+
+I've led the creation of developer narratives and scaled them out at Google, 
+eg: I created the first design workshops for developers at IO13 & IO14. I've 
+founded and presented at the Design for Humans (in real life) meetup. I've 
+created the UX Design for Mobile class on Udacity, and my own UX Design show on 
+YouTube both for Google. I also run and create content for a very prominent 
+developer tutorial site called developerlife.com (which was established in 
+1998).
+
+## Leadership and Resourcefulness
+  * Was founder and CEO of TRNQL Inc, a startup to build SDKs for iOS and 
+Android in 2014
+  * Raised $1.5M of VC funding
+  * Recruited and managed team of 6 people
+  * Created and shipped SDKs that collects valuable signals from Android and 
+iOS devices that fed ML to better understand human behavior
+  * Founded R3BL startup that is an incubator for apps and services that 
+address human needs.
+
+## Communication
+  * Created developerlife.com tutorials on Android, React, Redux, and React 
+Native, that has been around since ‘98 and has over 10M pageviews.
+  * Created & ran UX Design experiential workshops for developers at Google 
+IO13 and IO14 hosting over 2k attendees – 
+[bit.ly/2o3oAni](http://bit.ly/2o3oAni).
+  * Founded and grew Design for Humans meetup group to 2k members for UX 
+design. I’ve presented at over 34 meetups, and over 4k developer & designer 
+attendees – [bit.ly/uxdmeetup](http://bit.ly/uxdmeetup).
+
+## Product Design
+  * UX Design for Developers YouTube show for Google Android with over 200k 
+views [bit.ly/uxdplaylist](http://bit.ly/uxdplaylist)
+  * Udacity class on UX Design for Mobile reaching over 200k people online 
+[bit.ly/uxdclass](http://bit.ly/uxdclass)
+  * G+ UX design community 8k designers & developers 
+[bit.ly/uxdcommunity](http://bit.ly/uxdcommunity)
+
+## Software Engineering
+
+### Technologies
+
+  * Full stack developer with experience in cloud, mobile, and web 
+technologies, such as Java, Kotlin, Android, JavaScript, React Native, React, 
+Redux, Firebase, NoSQL databases, CMS systems, payments & licensing & 
+subscriptions systems, enterprise backend systems (ETL, Data transformations, 
+app servers, etc).
+
+### Mobile app development toolkits & infrastructure
+
+  * Created Android app development container and SDK (built on top of Android 
+framework to expose contextual awareness to any app for TRNQL)
+  * Created BlackBerry app development container (with custom UI toolkits, 
+animation libraries, networking, and app lifecycle management).
+  * Created Java desktop app development containers (with custom UI toolkits, 
+animation libraries, networking, and app lifecycle management) for Rich 
+Internet Applications.
+
+### Cloud Infrastructure
+  * I created a cross platform PaaS service in Java, built on top of Tomcat, 
+similar to Google App Engine that powered all the BlackBerry apps (from 2006 to 
+2011) and then became the server backend for TRNQL SDK offering (from 
+2015-2016).
+  * Created DSLs to declaratively generate persistence, networking, data 
+models, and data binding. Created source code generators to take DSLs and 
+generate code in Java for server, Android, and BlackBerry, and even JavaScript 
+for web.
+  * This server supported web, iOS, Android, BlackBerry clients.
+  * It also supported payments integration and issuing app licenses and 
+managing app subscriptions.
+
+### Cross platform development toolkits & infrastructure
+  * Created Web app development containers to integrate seamlessly with cloud 
+infrastructure and a multitude of mobile clients (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) 
+from 2009 to 2011.
+
+### Android apps
+  * I published 2 Android apps to the Play Store.
+  * ExtraTKT in 2009.
+  * TRNQL interplay in 2015.
+
+### BlackBerry Apps
+  * I was a finalist twice in the Global BlackBerry DevCon 2009 and 2010 for 
+best app in the world (Wicked blogging app, and RainOrShine weather app).
+  * I published 4 apps that were used by 100's of thousands of users globally 
+from 2006 to 2011
+  * Wicked blogging app for BlackBerry
+  * MyListy list app for BlackBerry and Web
+  * DulyNoted note taking app for BlackBerry and Web
+  * RainOrShine weather app for BlackBerry (was top 5 weather apps in 
+BlackBerry App World for a while) and was featured in the App World.
+
+### Middleware infrastructure for mobile
+  * Created underlying technology to enable servers to integrate with multiple 
+client platforms using low level sockets communications, custom binary data 
+transmission protocols, complete custom app servers, and even custom mobile app 
+UI markup languages from 1999 to 2004.
+  * Created high performance application data network infrastructure to deliver 
+push updates from server to client, and a whole host of other innovations (see 
+patent).
+
+## Patents and books
+  * Patent on mobile computing 
+[google.com/patents/US6891860](http://google.com/patents/US6891860)
+  * Book on Java and XML [a.co/friJT12](http://a.co/friJT12)
+
+## About developerlife.com
+I started developerlife.com in Nov 1998 when I couldn’t find a decent tutorial 
+on XML and Java to build web based apps, so I decided to write one myself, and 
+this site was born. It served up its [first tutorial on on 31 Dec 
+1998](http://xml.coverpages.org/idris199901.html). Like [Alan 
+Kay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay) said: “The best way to predict the 
+future is to invent it”.
+
+It grew to become a trusted resource to professional programmers, college 
+students, universities, research institutions, [standards 
+bodies](http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlFAQ15.html#JAVA-GEN), online magazines, 
+and even enterprise software vendors.
+
+Since then technologies have come and gone, and I have created tutorials on 
+many varied topics. The goal of the content is in service of the creation of 
+technology that adapts to the needs of humans.
+
+You can see how this site has evolved since the beginning in the [Internet 
+Archive Wayback Machine](https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/developerlife.com).