Yaser Zhian Tabasy's Homepage

This is my humble home on the world-wide web. There's not much content here because I haven't got around to put anything interesting on it yet. In the meanwhile, you can check out my weblog over here or email me at y on yaserzt \x2E com.

This has been my homepage from April 2007 and I plan to ultimately move all my online-able and share-able information to it. From my movie/music list to my project repositories and my blog. Also, if you are in need of web-space/bandwidth for a FOSS project, or anything that you think I might be interested in, please feel free to contact me. I have some free gigs of space and bandwidth and I hate it to go to waste.

In case it may interest you, I am a computer programmer and a nerd. I write anything from device drivers to web-based 3-tier applications, using x86 assembly, C++ or Python, among other things. I'm not seeking employment right now, not even a part time job, unless it's really interesting or challenging or high-paying (in that order,) and then only as a consultant or a part-part-time job.

Right now, I'm living in Tehran, Iran and working for Fanafzar Game Studios, a part of Fanafzar Co.. We are finishing up our first computer game, called Garshasp. I am one of the senior programmers, developing our own engine and technology. It's fascinating work and I'm priviledged to work with talented and cool people.

My areas of interest are:

• Computer graphics
• Computer games development
• Internet-based (web or otherwise) applications (The back ends. I'm not really interested in UIs.)
• High-performance network programs
• Middleware development
• Cryptography and cryptanalysis (as long as someone else handles the math!)
• Any free and open source software development
• Computer programming contests
• Any community- and computer-related activities
• Operating systems development and (to some extent) research
• Any (low-level) system programming projects
• Teaching and holding lectures

I appreciate freedom and try to encourage it if I can. Therefore, I'd be happy to send and receive email in signed and encrypted form. However, due to embarrassingly and depressingly low rate of stong cryptography adoption in email communication, I usually have to resort to only signed email (if that.) Anyways, here is my public key as an OpenPGP file. My key ID is 0xEB01A31E. If you are curious, I use a combination of Mozilla Thunderbird, Enigmail and GNU Privacy Guard (GPG for short) to protect my own and others' email privacy. You might want to consider doing so too.