Meet A Techie Tuesday: Abdo Achkar
In my attempt to write something daily in this ridiculously awesome blog, I have made the official decision to designate today(and every Tuesday from here on out) Meet A Techie Tuesday, where I will attempt to introduce you and the rest of the word to an interesting ‘techie’ that I have met while hanging out here in Silicon Valley. This will give the blog some consistency and hopefully some value to people outside of PhotoCrank, which I think is always a great idea. Plus, who doesn’t like meeting a new and interesting computer geek every now and then?
Due to the fact that I came up with this blog idea about about an hour ago, today’s techie is what you could call ‘the low-hanging fruit’ of the selection process because he is a friend and co-worker of mine here at PhotoCrank. But, believe me when I say that this guy is definitely worth telling you all about and I have no doubt in my mind that you’ll understand why I chose him after you finish reading the following paragraphs. The guy is awesomely amazing.
The techie that I am talking about is my friend, homie and legendary Lebanese phenomenon, Abdo Achkar (Email, Facebook, Twitter). Abdo is an implant from Philadelphia, PA (Villanova University grad) and before that he was an implant from Lebanon and he’s now a developer for PhotoCrank right here in Palo Alto, CA. Here is some more info that you all should know about Abdo - some techie and some not-so-techie.
Abdo loves the outdoors
Although his favorite outdoor activity is playing soccer, Abdo just basically loves anything to do with getting to run around like a crazy man while outdoors. This can include camping, riding his bike, hiking or simply walking from his apartment to Pizza My Heart on University Ave. in Palo Alto.
Abdo likes to climb things
Like I said, Abdo loves the outdoors and for some reason he really likes climbing random things around the Palo Alto area, such as trees. As you can see, I sometimes like join him in his climbing adventures.
Abdo is smarter than me
Abdo is a super intelligent guy and it never surprises me when we’re chatting and he brings up a topic that I have no clue about. I mean, I’m not saying that I don’t know some pretty interesting things, I’m just saying that he knows a lot of them. As far as developing goes, Abdo programs mainly in .NET, but he has an arsenal of other flavors of programming that he’s familiar with - not to mention that he likes to pick up new ones here and there whenever he feels like a little challenge. I guess that smart people do that type of thing.
Abdo can eat and eat and eat and eat…
Whether he cooked it (Abdo’s a great cook, too) or is just eating it, Abdo can put down some food with the best of ‘em. I’m not really sure where all of the food goes though because ‘large’ is one thing that Abdo definitely is not. He must burn it all off while playing soccer and climbing trees?
Well, that’s a little bit about Abdo, our first official techie for the soon-to-be-Internet-famous Meet A Techie Tuesday. I plan on picking a new techie each week depending on who I meet throughout the week, but feel free to send me any suggestions that you may have over to my electronic mail account: ryan@photocrank.com.
Oh, and be sure to send Abdo a hello as well - I’m sure he’d love to meet all of you, too.