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Enterprise Rails (O'Reilly Media)
Author (2008-2009)
Enterprise Rails introduces several time-tested software engineering principles to prepare you for the challenge of building a high-performance, scalable website. You'll learn how to design a solid architecture that ties the many parts of an enterprise website together: your database "fortress", web-services and a service-oriented architecture, and modular software and organizational design.
Discuss Enterprise Rails
Fluent Mobile, Inc.
Vice President, Engineering (2009)
Fluent News is the first iPhone application to aggregate exclusively made-for-mobile content from the most trusted news sources across the Web into a single, easy-to-read and up-to-the-minute mobile newspaper.
As Vice President of Engineering, Dan Chak led the Fluent Mobile development organization in designing, developing, and bringing the Fluent News application to market. Fluent News has consistently been among the top news applications for the iPhone.
CourseAdvisor, Inc.
Director of Software Development (2005-2008)
CourseAdvisor is an online research directory for postsecondary education, career training, and professional development. We offer more than 5,000 programs through nearly 300 accredited colleges, vocational/technical schools, professional training centers, and universities.
As the first member of the engineering team and later as the Director of Software development, Dan Chak designed the software that powered CourseAdvisor and led an international team to bring it to market.