{"id":2,"date":"2006-11-23T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-16T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T13:07:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Nadeem Shabir and I work as a Technical Lead at <a title=\"Talis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\">Talis<\/a> on a number of exciting and challenging <a title=\"Research @ Talis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/platform\/index.shtml\">projects<\/a> which involve, amongst other things, the building of a distributed, generic metadata storage platform and a range of Web 2.0 applications built upon it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little information about me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a graduate of <a title=\"The University of Birmingham\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bham.ac.uk\/default.asp\">The University of Birmingham<\/a>, where I studied Artificial Intelligence &#038; Computer Science. After graduating I worked for several companies ranging from working as a developer at an internet startup called <a title=\"aQtive.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aQtive.net\/\">aQtive<\/a>; all the way to spending several years working as a Software Architect for <a title=\"Data Systems &#038; Solutions Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ds-s.com\/home.asp\">Data Systems and Solutions<\/a> &#8211; a subsidiary of <a title=\"Rolls-Royce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/\">Rolls Royce<\/a>. I guess its true to say that I have over a decade of experience working with a range of different tools, languages and environments. I consider myself priviledged to be working now at Talis, alongside a team of incredibly passionate and extremely talented geeks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to my work my other interests include playing the Guitar, cooking,  playing for an <a title=\"FPS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First-person_shooter\">FPS<\/a> <a title=\"Team Wolfenstein Resource\" href=\"http:\/\/wolfensteinresource.com\/\">Gaming team<\/a>, <a title=\"Mixed Martial Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mixed_martial_arts\">MMA<\/a> and reading (and watching) far,far too much Science Fiction and <a title=\"Manga\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manga\">Manga<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Nadeem Shabir and I work as a Technical Lead at Talis on a number of exciting and challenging projects which involve, amongst other things, the building of a distributed, generic metadata storage platform and a range of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}