Profile of Walter Tak

Game-architect, technical solution provider, allround developer (PHP, Java, Actionscript, JS, SQL etc), database-specialist (MySQL)

• Architect for online browserbased games
• Developer (Flash/Flash/Java) for frontend and backend gamedevelopement
• Database-specialist for designing and optimizing high-volume high-load MySQL databases
• Technical solution provider for frontend-backend communication (from Ajax-request to Database-query, from scoket-call to realtime-multiplayer-game-server-logic)
• Helicopter-view provider for those difficult technical projects that are suffering from bottlenecks in the code, somewhere...

• Programming-architecture: PHP, Java, Actionscript 3 (Flash/Flex) (and Perl, Bash, ASP, 68000-ASM a long time ago)
• Database-architecture: MySQL (and PostgreSQL , Microsoft SQL Server a long time ago)
• Performance-analysis: Webservers (Apache, Nginx), MySQL, servers (hardware)
• Caching-strategies: memory-caching (MemCached), server-(memory)tuning (Apache, Nginx, Java, disks)
• Scaling using partitioning, sharding, master-slave replication & more
• Game-design feedback (from my long history of working with/and playing games ; my hobby is my work)
• Team-management: Overviewing operations, training, recruiting and control using SCRUM in combination with JIRA, Basecamp etc
• Message queuing / request-distrubution between webservers and applicationservers
• Geographic content distribution (CDN), bandwidth- and server-load optimalisations
• Server monitoring using graphs (Zabbix, MRTG, RRDTOOL) to near-realtime using SaaS like New Relic
• Socket-servers: SmartFoxServer (Java), Netty (java), NodeJS (Javascript)
• Streaming video-servers: Red5 (Java), Flash Media Server (Actionscript), Wowza Media Server (Java)