Kazim Baygan

About Kazim

Experience

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   SoftCapp Inc. · Full-time

   • Co-Founder

     Jul 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos·Los Angeles, California, United States·Current

     Leading a company that has a mission to reduce cost, speed up development and increase reliability in automation world.

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   Baytek Software Development Corp. · Full-time

   • Owner

     Jan 1989 - Present · 36 yrs 8 mos·Los Angeles, California, United States·Current

     Baytek is boutique software Development Company, based in Los Angeles, California. I am the founder and CEO of Baytek. Our forte is mobile development and backend development of any kind. Quality is our main focus. I have been serving clients around Los Angeles area since the inception of the company. We are a very small team of developers and we would like to keep it that way. This enables us to concentrate on the task at hand and provide high quality work. The work experience shown here are our clients whom I personally worked with in some cases alone and in some cases alongside of my team members. Our clients would be the best testimonial for quality of our work.

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   DFL Technology · Contract

   • Android Architect

     Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 · 7 mos·San Diego, California, United States

     Hands on coding of an Android app that captures biometric information such as Iris, fingerprint, face recognition, voice and other modalities. Managed a team of developers to build the app from design to completion.

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   Scientific Sealing Technology · Contract

   • Software Engineer and Project Manager

     Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

     Working on mobile apps for a robotic system. • Architected and worked on Android app using Kotlin, RxJava, JetPack and many other third-party libraries. Worked with JetPack Compose. • Architected and worked on IOS app using Swift. • Architected and implemented PLC code, based on Beckhoff PLC and Structured Text. • Architected and implemented HMI code using Javascript, React, OpenUI and HTML5. • Implemented the database layer using Sqlite and Room, file system and Firebase. Used Firebase infrastructure to implement data storing as well as analytics, functions, hosting, Firestore, cloud messaging, Dynamic links, In-App messaging where it was appropriate in the project. Implemented security scripts for Firebase. • Implemented server code using OPC, NodeJS, Javascript and Typescript.

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   Premise · Contract

   • Sr Mobile Developer

     Apr 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

     Worked on mobile apps for IOS (ObjectiveC/SWIFT) and Android (Java) to collect data. • Worked on IOS app to implement features using Swift and Objective C. • Worked on some queries for data mining, using google BigQuery. • Worked on Android implementation using Kotlin and Java. • Worked on Firebase.

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   Motiv · Contract

   • Sr Mobile Developer

     Oct 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

     Worked on mobile apps for IOS (ObjectiveC/SWIFT) and Android (Java) to pair with a wearable ring that monitors heart rate, steps and other vital signs via BLE. • Worked on IOS UI elements such as ViewControllers, Storyboard constraints, UICollectionView, UIPageViewController, UIScrollView and many other IOS controls. • Worked on custom views with layers. Implemented HeartRate and Steps graphs for IOS (view, layers, UIBezierPath, masks) and Android (canvas, path, masks, PorterDuff). Worked on splining and data filtering algorithms. • Created an IOS OperationQueue and Operations to handle post processing of raw data coming from the ring. Used Grand Central Dispatch for queuing and threading. • Designed and implemented calorie calculation engine for IOS and Android. • Designed and implemented physical activity (run, walk) detection engine. • Designed and implemented the Android app using Google’s Android Architecture Components library with LiveData, ViewModel, LifeCycle, Room etc. Blended LiveData components with RxJava Observables. • Worked on Bluetooth Low Energy interface to collect data from peripheral ring for IOS and Android. Worked with RxAndroidBle library on Android for BLE interface. • Stored heart rates, steps and sleep patterns in a local database IOS (Coredata -> SQLite) and Android (SQLite). • Implemented code to sync data between remote Parse database and local SQLite (Coredata). • Implemented app analytics code, including zipping and saving Sql database upon request. Archived data on AWS server. • Used RxJava, ButterKnife, Espresso, Roboelectric, Timber and other Android third part libraries. • Worked with Firebase to save and retrieve user settings.

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   eHarmony

   • Android lead

     2016 - 2016 · Less than a year
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   Fox Sports

   • Sr. Android/IOS Consultant

     Apr 2015 - Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo·PlayaVista

     -Worked on mobile apps for Android (Java) and IOS (Objective-C/SWIFT) to stream video content for Sports events. -Worked on an Android based Video player app using libraries such as EventBus, Robospice, Retrofit, okhhtp, Glide, Multidex etc. -Worked with Activities, Fragments, Layouts, Intents, Views, Animators, Services, SQLite and other Android framework components to design and implement UI/UX. -Implemented multithreaded backend interface using REST/JSON/XML. -Implemented animations. -Architected and implemented “Deep Linking” functionality on IOS and Android, to share video links over SMS, Email, Twitter and Facebook. -Re-architected an existing Android application to optimize various things such as speed, memory and battery usage. -Worked on location utilities on Android. -Worked on various parts of IOS application using Objective-C and created test modules using Swift.

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   Bingo Customer Loyalty

   • Chief Software Architect

     Sep 2014 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs·Glendale

     Architected and implemented a customer loyalty solution for small businesses. - Managed the project, source control and other developers. - Architected and implemented a backend using Firebase, AWS and NodeJS. - Architected and implemented an Android/IOS customer app to display a QR code as identity. - Architected and implemented an Android business app to scan the QR code and handout points, gifts etc. - Architected and implemented persistence layer in Android using SQLite database. - Implemented push notifications, sms, deep linking, gift sending etc in Android/IOS - Architected and implemented company web site. BINGO Customer Loyalty App

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    The Climate Corporation

    • Sr. Android/IOS Consultant

      Apr 2014 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo·San Francisco - Telecommute

      Worked on an Android based application for agriculture industry. Application provides useful information to farmers in their day to day farming. All programing is done using native Java language. Utilized Git based Stash and Github as source control system. -Implemented multithreaded backend interface using REST/JSON/XML. -Architected and implemented a Notification library to notify farmers with importing events such as hail, storm etc. Implemented as Android Library Project to be used by other departments in the company. -Architected and implemented a ‘scouting’ library to keep track of important events for farmers. -Architected and implemented a ‘photo’ library to encapsulate the behavior of photo handling. -Implemented Geolocation functionality using Google map and markers. Users can pick their location as they log an event into the system. -Worked on various parts of IOS application using Objective-C. -Used libraries such as Volley, GSON, Retrofit, Glide, and Picasso.

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    Lolay

    • Sr. Mobile (Android/IOS) Consultant

      Feb 2013 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos·Telecommute

      Worked on mobile app solutions using Android and IOS platforms to clients such as TextPlus, MGO, Beamz and Aerserv. Implemented view animations, web service calls, complex user interface widgets, on device storage, search algorithms and other mobile app related components. Languages used were Java, Objective-C and C#. Used Github as source control. -Built a phone messaging system for TextPlus. Created screens for account creation and activation. Sending messages and receiving message. Handled push notifications. Created user interface for handling user’s account information such as personal info and avatar. -Built a video rental system for MGO. Created screens to select a video to rent from thousands of tittles. Added functionality to keep track of user’s favorites and wish list. Added code to download videos and play it for the user. Used libraries to handle DRM. -Built an Android plugin for Aerserv advertisement module. -Worked on Bluetooth interface for an interactive music creation device for Beamz inc. -Implemented multithreaded backend interface using REST/JSON/XML.

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    Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

    • Sr. Software Engineer

      Nov 2012 - Feb 2013 · 4 mos·Burbank, California

      Worked on .Net and MSSQL based participation software (PARIS). - Implemented SQL procedures, created tables, user functions, views, indexes. - Implemented a print sub system using MS Service Broker. - Implemented a .Net app to handle bulk processing.

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    Universal Music Group

    • Sr. Software Consultant

      Feb 2009 - Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Developing a large scale Web based database application to manage world’s largest entertainment media library. Duties include middle tier coding using WCF, writing complex stored procedures, functions, views for MS-SQL. Developing code in T-SQL and stored procedure optimizing. Here is a list of noteworthy alphabet soup I have been exposed to here: .Net, SQL , TSQL, SSIS, BizTalk, WF, LINQ, C#, Reflection, Photoshop, Silverlight, WPF, Objective-C, iPhone…

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    Green Dot Corporation

    • Sr Software Contractor

      Feb 2008 - Feb 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Implemented desktop and Web applications for an online debit card sale system. • Implemented .Net Web services (SOA, WCF, ASMX and some BizTalk) to handle back end processing of online debit card sale system. New development was done in C# and in some cases retrofitted in to VB. • Implemented multi threaded desktop applications to manage financial data using .Net, C#, WPF, LINQ, MVP and CAL. Modular design ensured encapsulation of business logic in a class library. Dependency injection pattern and mock injection was used to facilitate testing. • Implemented an ASPX.Net based web site to create and manage debit card data. This tool was created by using C#, SQL 2005, AJAX and JavaScript. • Pioneered Microsoft Sandcastle code document management in the company. Documented all projects using Sandcastle and UML. • Worked on multi threaded .Net, application to communicate with partners via TCPIP socket.

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    Accessmedia

    • Contractor

      Jun 2006 - Jan 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Lead a team of programmers that designed, documented, developed the following projects: • IGrab – Purpose of this application is to grab images and videos of interest from the Internet and download them into a local drive. The user interface of the application is developed in Flash (AS3) and it sits on a VC++ ActiveX code. Used as part of www.broadcaster.com. • AI Bot – Implementation of artificial intelligent software to respond to user request in a online video and text chat environment. System can respond to chat messages in different languages and take actions such as jump, run, scratch head etc. System was built by using Flash and Action Script 3, .Net (C#), AIML • Video processing – Developed a multi threaded and multi-processor video processing system to convert existing mpg videos into ‘On2 VP6’ format using .Net(C#), Winforms, ASP.NET, Web services and SQL 2005. A Job server was implemented to process videos on an idling machine in the company.

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    Thomson Elite

    • Sr. Software Consultant

      Mar 2005 - Aug 2009 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      Worked on .Net based n-tier Web development framework for Law firms. I was leading a team that developed building blocks of the framework. • Using C# and .NET, developed a code editor for VB with ‘intellisense’ and error check support. Application engineers used this editor to build business rules for a law firm using VB. • Developed a lexer and parser for VB using C# and ANTLR to create CodeDOM which was used in error checking and Intellisense. • Code building on the server side on the fly using CodeDOM and .Net Reflection API.

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    Cash Technologies

    • Sr. Software Consultant

      Dec 2003 - Oct 2007 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      Designed, documented and developed an online debit card sale system using .Net, ASPX, Winforms, C#, Web Services, SQL 2005, Remoting. Implemented back end code for processing text and PDF files for medical claims processing • Developed the web site (http://www.cashtechcard.com) using SOA, JavaScript, AJAX, .Net(C#), SQL 2005. Implemented SQL 2005 stored procedures and optimized the database for best performance. Designed GUI using PhotoShop, Flash, PhotoImpact, Action Script. • Developed an back end administration site using JavaScript, AJAX, .Net(C#), SQL 2005 • Wrote code to interface with secure financial networks and their Web Services, including credit card and check processing. Implemented encryption (SSL, asymmetric cryptography and symmetric cryptography) to protect sensitive information.

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    Countrywide

    • Sr. Software Consultant

      Apr 2003 - Dec 2003 · 9 mos

      Designed, documented and implemented Windows NT/2K/2003 based loan process application, .NET, Winforms, C#, COM, ActiveX, ADO.NET and SQL. • Developed a XML based loan retrieval and submittal system using .Net, C#, SQL 2000, ADO. • Developed a template based server system for easy service creation. • Developed an auto update module to be used by software to update itself without interrupting user experience. Designed GUI using PhotoShop, Flash, PhotoImpact, Action Script.

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    Cash Technologies

    • Sr. Software Consultant

      Jul 1999 - Apr 2003 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Designed and implemented Windows NT/2K based e-commerce financial backbone, using SOA, .NET, Winforms, C#, VC++, MFC, STL, COM, ActiveX, ASPX, SQL, ADO, Remoting, VB and Tuxedo. Lead a team in architectural design and implementation of client and server code. • Provided multi-threaded financial three-tier client-server system (check cashing, credit card transactions, data serialization etc.). • Developed algorithms for image optical character recognition (OCR), pre/post processing and data correction. • Developed SQL back-end code for financial transaction server. • Developed stand-alone and Web based GUI to interface with the backend. • Implemented biometrics on financial networks using IRIS recognition and fingerprints analyses. • Used object-oriented development and documentation in UML (OOA, OOD, OOP.)

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    Scientific Sealing Technology

    • Sr. Software Consultant

      Jan 1998 - Dec 2004 · 7 yrs

      Designed, documented and implemented the main architecture for a Windows NT/2K based, Internet-ready machine control application, using VC++, MFC and other tools. Provided system documentation and education. Lead the hands-on architectural design for the entire product using OOD, OOD and UML. Developed all components (Error handling, data archiving, serialization, serial com., ActiveX, multi-threading, DLLs and application.)

Education

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   California State University, Los AngelesBSEE, Electrical Engineering1984 - 1989

   First place winner in IEEE's paper contest.

Skills