Khaled Tannir has been working with computers since 1980. He began
programming with the legendary Sinclair Zx81 and later with Commodore home
computer products (Vic 20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128D, and Amiga 500).
He has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics, a Master's degree in System Information
Architectures, in which he graduated with a professional thesis, and completed his
education with a Master of Research degree.
He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and has more than 20 years
of technical experience leading the development and implementation of software
solutions and giving technical presentations. He now works as an independent IT
consultant and has worked as an infrastructure engineer, senior developer, and
enterprise/solution architect for many companies in France and Canada.
With significant experience in Microsoft .Net, Microsoft Server Systems,
and Oracle Java technologies, he has extensive skills in online/offline applications
design, system conversions, and multilingual applications in both domains: Internet
and Desktops.
He is always researching new technologies, learning about them, and looking for
new adventures in France, North America, and the Middleeast. He owns an IT and
electronics laboratory with many servers, monitors, open electronic boards such
as Arduino, Netduino, RaspBerry Pi, and .Net Gadgeteer, and some smartphone
devices based on Windows Phone, Android, and iOS operating systems.
In 2012, he contributed to the EGC 2012 (International Complex Data Mining forum at
Bordeaux University, France) and presented, in a workshop session, his work on 'how
to optimize data distribution in a cloud computing environment'. This work aims to
define an approach to optimize the use of data mining algorithms such as kmeans and
Apriori in a cloud computing environment.
He is the author of RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing.
He aims to get a PhD in Cloud Computing and Big Data and wants to learn more
and more about these technologies.
He enjoys taking landscape and night time photos, travelling, playing video games,
creating funny electronic gadgets with Arduino/.Net Gadgeteer, and of course,
spending time with his wife and family.
You can reach him at contact@khaledtannir.net.