Who Am I?

As you have probably already figured out, my name is Dominic Plouffe. I'm an all around geek which loves to spend most of his time on the computer. I've been working in the computer industry for as long as I can remember, starting out by cleaning the shelfs at a local computer store and working my way up ever since. I worked for many companies but most notably, Inly System, Jetform Inc, FuseTalk Inc (which I co-founded and sold in 2006), HotHardware.com, and now Apption/Gazaro.

I possess a pashion for "figuring" out complex problems, which is why I joined Gazaro a couple of years ago. I've always wanted to spend my days thinking about and writting complex algorithms and I feel lucky to go in to work every day. I spend most of my spare time learning new stuff and working out problems like the ones given by Google Code Jam.

What is Gazaro?

Gazaro is a pretty cool service (I know bias) which I co-created on a daily basis with a group of really talented individuals. It is a service which tracks the prices and trends on electronic products to report the best deals going on today. We use lots of cool and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence techniques to mine the data and perform statistical analysis. It's a challenging project, but I love challenges :)

I get to work on technologies such as Amazon EC2, S3, Simple DB, Hadoop/MapReduce and Google App Engine on a daily basis. Oh, and we have an iPhone application coming out soon which will be pretty cool!


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