Joshua Mostafa

Current

• Freelance Flex developer at Almirun

Past

• Senior Flash Developer at C4
• Interactive Software Team Leader at Abuzz Technologies
• Flash Developer (contract) at White Agency

• Web Developer at Westfield
• Web Developer at PeopleLogic
• Training Course Author at Virtual Training Company
• Author at Design Revolution

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Education

• University of Sydney
• Royal Holloway, U. of London

Recommended

3 people have recommended Joshua

Connections

53 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Tech blog
• Where I work
• Music blog

Joshua Mostafa’s Summary

Currently based in Sydney, Australia, Joshua Mostafa is a Senior RIA Developer. He is currently contracting as a hired Flex / Flash gun, and looking to broaden his experience in the rapidly growing RIA space, while striving to achieve a better balance between technical work, his creative pursuits (creative writing, music) and family life.

Joshua Mostafa’s Specialties:

Software engineering, systems architecture and design, software team leadership, writing guides for developers.

Specialising in Flex, Flash and AIR.

Joshua Mostafa’s Experience

• Freelance Flex developer

  Almirun

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  I'm doing freelance Flex work at the moment - a great change from commuting every day to the city. I'm currently building an enterprise Flex application, targeting Flash Player 10, for a client who shall remain nameless (until the launch).

• Senior Flash Developer

  C4

  (Internet industry)

  January 2008 — October 2008 (10 months)

  Lots of interesting projects at this busy design agency: Flash, Flex, Papervision3D, AIR, communicating with .NET via FluorineFX. Development, estimation, systems analysis & design, mentoring juniors, writing documentation. Clients included Telstra, Cisco, Energy Australia, Cisco.

• Interactive Software Team Leader

  Abuzz Technologies

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2006 — 2008 (2 years )

  Led a team of Flash developers. Designed and implemented a large-scale ActionScript framework and several high profile touch screen kiosk applications. Clients: Harvey Norman, Westfield, Westpac.

• Flash Developer (contract)

  White Agency

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  Big project: Flash remoting with Java backend. Client: Coca-Cola.

• Web Developer

  Westfield

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Various projects using Flash and Perl (specifically HTML::Mason).

• Web Developer

  PeopleLogic

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years )

• Training Course Author

  Virtual Training Company

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

• Author

  Design Revolution

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Joshua Mostafa’s Education

• University of Sydney

  Graduate Diploma , Creative Writing , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

• Royal Holloway, U. of London

  BA Hons , Drama & English , 1998 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Decadence Society, Keep Vinyl Alive Society

Additional Information

Joshua Mostafa’s Websites:

• Tech blog
• Where I work
• Music blog

Joshua Mostafa’s Interests:

literature, history, linguistics, archaeology, music.

Joshua Mostafa’s Groups:

•    Open Source Developers
•    Agilistas
•    Object Oriented Analysis and Design Users Group
•    Adobe Flex Developers
•    Adobe AIR Developers

Joshua Mostafa’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch