Think you can hack with this guy?

Hecham Ghazal is not your average hacker – not in Toronto, anyway. He’s one of the few Canadians with deep expertise in tech’s growth areas: building for Internet Scale and Search… Advertising and Social Graph Targeting… and Online Video. You could say that Hecham is the hacker’s hacker. And he’s looking for a few great minds to join him.

As an early Geosign engineer, Hecham learned to deal with 130,000+ domains and 100s of millions of page-views per day. He built the data warehouses, designed the Local Search solutions and led the scaling of the search engines to support multiple verticals on commodity hardware. Then, as Employee #1 at Peerset, he scaled a real-time system to recommend ads based on social profiles. We’re talking more than 90 million page-views/month. The system was powered by a custom-crawled data-set of over 60 million social profiles.

The Biggest Couch Ever

In 2009, Hecham launched LeanIn, the exciting Canadian company that’s changing how we watch online video. LeanIn’s elevator pitch is simple: To make video more fun and more social by answering two key questions:

• Where is that scene in the video?
• What are my friends watching?

LeanIn will handle over 500 million interactions/month. For that job, they’re exploiting the best and latest technologies from NoSQL & memcached to Flex & HTML5. But, the team still faces some big technical challenges. And for that, they need a few good hackers.

To be a really good Hacker (and we say this as a compliment) – you need two things. First, you need some tough complicated problems to solve. Second, you have to be surrounded by people who can take on these big problems – people like Hecham. LeanIn is hiring real hackers.

About the Company

LeanIn is a revolutionary new way for viewers of TV and online video to interact with and discover content that is relevant to them. We incorporate all of the latest advancements in social networking and gaming and deliver them to viewers right inside the video player. Our technology transforms content discovery from: ‘what’s on now?’ to ‘what have my friends been watching?’ and ‘what are they digitally saying about it?’

With LeanIn, viewer interaction is natural and intuitive and provides content owners with tools and incentive programs to reach bigger audiences, in a more meaningful way.

Our product is a stealthy toolbar that opens up a whole new dimension of video. It empowers audiences to share, comment, bookmark, and search. Key features include a patent pending video map, a video heat map and a loyalty program with audience competition at its core. People will no longer watch video. They will LeanIn and interact with it.

Click here to learn more about Leanin.com