About Me

I’m Niraj Shah, a PHP Developer working in London, UK. Thanks for visiting my site, a digital portfolio of my development work. I love web development and have been doing it for many years now, since College. I also enjoy blogging in my space time (I have several blogs), watching movies and playing video games.

Education

I have a BSc in Computer Science (1st Class Honors) and a MSc in Advanced Computing (Distinction), both from King’s College London. I received my BSc in 2006 and my MSc in 2007.

Experience

I’m experienced in Social Network development (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Google+ and Twitter) and Microsites (WordPress), and some experience in design. You can check out some of my work in my Online Portfolio. I also have experience in assembling computers. Key skills include:

  • PHP/MySQL development
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (including jQuery)
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
  • Usability and Information Architecture
  • Social Network Programming (FBML, Graph API, MySpace, SNML, Twitter, Google+)
  • OpenGraph Markup and Graph API (Facebook)
  • REST, SOAP, OAuth Protocols