Gigi Sayfan - Envato Tuts+ Profile

Gigi Sayfan

Principal Software Architect at Helix

Gigi Sayfan is a principal software architect at Helix — a bioinformatics and genomics start-up. Gigi has been developing software professionally for more than 20 years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired machine learning, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors and virtual reality. He has written production code in many programming languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, Mac OSX, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, unorthodox user interfaces, and the general software development lifecycle.

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Tutorials

Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 2
In part 2 of this Pygame series, we'll look at the TextObject class used to render text on the screen, create the main window, learn how to draw objects, and...
Gigi Sayfan
16 Jan 2018
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Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 1
In this five-part series, I'll show you how to create 2D single-player games using Python 3 and the excellent Pygame framework.
Gigi Sayfan
15 Jan 2018
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Mastering the React Lifecycle Methods
Learn about the lifecycle of a React component from cradle to grave, what methods are available at each stage, and when it's appropriate to override them.
Gigi Sayfan
27 Dec 2017
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Testing Data-Intensive Code With Go, Part 5
This is part of a tutorial series on testing data-intensive code in Go. Learn about fuzz testing, testing your cache, testing data integrity, and more.
Gigi Sayfan
15 Dec 2017
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Testing Data-Intensive Code With Go, Part 3
This is part of a series on testing data-intensive code in Go. Learn to test against a local complex data layer with a relational DB and a Redis cache.
Gigi Sayfan
13 Dec 2017
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Testing Data-Intensive Code With Go, Part 1
In this five-part series, you'll learn to design testable data-intensive systems in Go. In part one, we'll test against an abstract data layer.
Gigi Sayfan
11 Dec 2017
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Make Your Go Programs Lightning Fast With Profiling
Learn how to profile your Go programs to make them lightning fast (utilize the CPU better) or feather light (use less memory).
Gigi Sayfan
28 Nov 2017
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Speeding Up Python With Cython
Cython is a superset of Python that lets you significantly improve the speed of your code. In this tutorial you'll learn how to speed up Python with Cython.
Gigi Sayfan
23 Oct 2017
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Pandas: The Swiss Army Knife for Your Data, Part 1
Pandas is an amazing data analysis toolkit for Python. In this two-part tutorial you'll learn about the fundamental data structures of Pandas.
Gigi Sayfan
3 Oct 2017
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6 Things That Make Yarn the Best JavaScript Package Manager
Yarn is an open-source npm client that improves on many aspects of the standard nom client. Learn about the top 6 features that make Yarn awesome.
Gigi Sayfan
25 Sep 2017
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Writing Plugins in Go
Today you'll learn about the new "plugin" package in Go 1.8. In particular, you'll learn how to write, discover, load and use Go plugins in your programs.
Gigi Sayfan
7 Sep 2017
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Deep Dive Into the Go Type System
In this tutorial you'll learn about the ins and outs of the Go type system and how to effectively utilize it for writing clear and idiomatic Go code.
Gigi Sayfan
5 Sep 2017
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