Entrepreneur, architect, developer and then some. I started www.raveable.com in 2008 to help travelers find the best hotel for their vacation very quickly an very easily. Until Raveable, fellow travelers used to read lengthy reviews and jump from one travel site to another wading through a sea of conflicting information. Raveable makes clear and concise recommendations based on millions of reviews, ratings and opinions. In my role as CTO, I designed and developed the underlying semantic engine for analyzing guest reviews, defined the overall system architecture and helped manage the offshore development efforts.


Prior to Raveable.com, I was a development lead at Microsoft Corporation. I led the team developing the next generation social networking for Windows Mobile. Before that I played leading role in the design and development of Microsoft Sync Framework, Sync Services for ADO.NET, SQL Server Replication and Windows File Replication.
 

The idea of building a web site to use to reflect on sync experience has been brewing in my mind for a while now. My biggest motivation at this point is the new synchronization framework that I am working on for ADO.NET. This is my first time to work in a library where my audience are developers and not administrators. I am super excited about the new challenge and would like to use this site to open a channel with developers and exchange ideas, code, etc.

Please feel free to email me with your suggestions.

Rafik Robeal

rafik@syncguru.com