Israt Farzana
Software Developer at Xibo Open Source Digital Signage
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIsrat Farzana is a software developer with a decade of experience building cloud-native SaaS and open-source solutions, currently shaping Xibo’s Adspace DOOH advertising platform in Cambridge. She blends backend expertise in PHP, MongoDB and MySQL with containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes, and has contributed concrete database time-series work to the prominent xibo-cms open-source project. Her background spans product-focused startups and research—ranging from penetration-testing portals to a PhD stint on multilingual crowdsourcing—giving her both security-minded and research-informed perspectives. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features, she also leads QA efforts and brings practical experience with GitLab/GitHub workflows and Telepresence for development. Notably, she moves fluidly between academic research and production engineering, turning experimental ideas into maintainable, customer-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Science and Technology, ChittagongMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, A, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, A at Università degli Studi di Trento
Italian, English
Github Skills (5)
back-end-development10
mysql10
database-design9
php9
digital-signage7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xibosignage/xibo-cms
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Xibo Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 649 commits, 384 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Israt primarily worked on implementing a "Proof of play Mysql Interface," indicating contributions to the back-end logic. Their commits focused on database interactions, specifically with MySQL, as seen in the addition and modification of the MySqlTimeSeriesStore.php file, which involved creating functions to insert stat data. These changes were aimed at creating a MySQL interface for time series data storage.
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ifarzana/xibo-cms
Jan 2019 - Mar 2024
Xibo Content Management System
Contributions:67 PRs, 711 pushes, 519 branches in 5 years 2 months
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