Artem Aleksashkin

Work Experience

Software Developer, Global Fashion Group(Ecommerce), Berlin, Germany(remote)

Feb 2023 - Nov 2023

Ecommerce, Projects: UI, backend apps

Accomplishments:

• Complicated investigations, fixes and concrete conclusions
• Feature development - api endpoints, including unit/api/functional tests
• Rewrote import script including dump optimization - imports become 60 times faster.
• Advised features and approaches from my ecommerce experience.
• Supported Java Project including wrote documentation for other developers(how to run, debug and deploy this project) - this was challenging because we have not declared support Java projects from our side - fixed bugs, debugging code.
• Supported Golang Project - not declared support Golang projects from my side, fixed bugs, added configuration parameters
• Supported TypeScript Project - not declared support TypeScript projects from my side - fixed bug
• Integrated PHPStan in CI for better stability and code quality

Senior Software Developer, Sxope Inc.(Healthcare), Tampa, FL(remote)

May 2022 - Oct 2022

Projects: UI, backend apps

Accomplishments:

• Static analyzer has been added on ci for all projects. Each team decides for itself when to turn it on on build lock. Added instructions for implementing a static analyzer for projects.
• Logging project stabilized, covered with tests and cleaned from unnecessary code and static errors (analyzer added to CI)
• A test plan for the UI project was developed and a plan document was written
• A review of technologies for possible automatic testing of projects was carried out. The Cypress library seems promising, which will allow you to run API tests on CI and e2e. Conducted consultations with the team on possible solutions. Cypress seems to be usable by all members - both testers and UI and backend specialists.

Team Lead, Kubient Inc.(RTB), New York, NY(remote)

May 2019 - March 2022

Project: UI, team of 3

Accomplishments:

• Standardized 3 UI projects(dockerized, updated PHP, added tests, added deployment flow, added environment, added documentation, added xdebug config): development speed growth up to 210%, entering into projects for newbies speed growth up to 400%. Ready to scale the team.
• Developers become up to 100% more flexible: every of 3 developers can develop each of 3 projects.
• Developed new UI 2.0(PHP, Symfony 4, API Platform, Typescript, Angular) in 3,5 month. Business can grow with a new account system, can give api to partners and become more flexible and modern. Old projects was included in UI 2.0 and old projects were terminated
• Reworked UI reporting system: UI can handle up to 2000% more data in a browser including sorting and searching data.
• Wrote documentation that decreased onboarding new employees up to 100%. All common questions and problems are there.
• Participation in company processes: remote team work, hiring, tickets, CI, demos, data investigations. Result: understanding business needs and targets.

Team Lead, Iponweb Inc.(RTB), Moscow, Russia

Mar 2016 - Oct 2018

RTB, Project: UI, team of 5

Accomplishments:

• Unified 8 projects and decreased number of developers from 20 to 5
• Reviewed work & planning process: releases without delays up to 1200%
• Planning resources for each 3 months, result: team capacity planning
• Feedback analyzing from project managers, result: expected predictable results
• Reviewing tech debt of all projects (analyzing, planning, removing), result: full tests coverage, no bugs for existing features, optimizing performance(up to 10x)
• Rewriting critical parts of code, result: growing project speed(less latency in UI), better customer experience.
• Hiring new developers(Designing test tasks and interviewing), result: 2 new programmers in team passed trial period
• Working on team motivation (For each team member personally), result: tech targets and personal targets are done
• Training team(Books, courses), result: team members passed python interview.
• Personal growing: testing different methods of team work.

Lead Software Developer, Ecommercemarket(Ecommerce), Moscow, Russia

Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

Projects: Website and pricelist ads service, team of 2

Accomplishments:

• Built scalable architecture on PHP/MySQL stack
• Collected big goods database with joint algorithm for price comparison
• Built search in 3,5 millions goods by price, category, brand and shop(in some categories more)
• Automated payments for content managers
• Administration, backups, monitoring
• We had 300 000 requests per day for our contextual advertising(B2B solution)
• Dedicated server, Ubuntu(14.04), RAID(mdadm), LVM, IPTABLES, Munin, BIND, KVM(VMs)
• NGINX, PHPfpm 5.5.9, MySQL 5.7, Memcached, Redis, Sphinx(SphinxQL), RabbitMQ, UI: built grid system and UI components. migrated from SphinxSearch to ElasticSearch, moved part of data to MongoDB

Senior Software Developer, Svyaznoy(Ecommerce), Moscow, Russia

Nov 2010 - Jul 2013

Projects: Price control system and competitors price collection, team of 2

Accomplishments:

• Developed a price control project that increased discounts setup up to 1000% faster.
• Developed competitors' price collection project that increased price collection up to 7500%.
• Increased speed of stock service up to 10000%.
• Writing specifications, working with other departments, working with external contractors, priority checking, compliance with deadlines.
• Working with existing code, reverse-engineering, finding solutions for code, architecture, administration. Testing, debugging. Responsibility. Support for projects in PHP 1C-Bitrix, Python / Django, PHP Symfony, interaction with the 1C servers. Bash, PHP, Python 2.6, Linux Gentoo / Fedora / Ubuntu / Debian, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Development and construction projects in the loaded PHP / Python. Development of schemes of interaction projects, ETL. Optimization projects, performance and efficiency of the script.
• The ability to understand the problem, to discuss and work out a solution. The desire to bring the project to a working state. Understanding business processes, business intelligence. Specifications, approval, distribution of tasks, work with people.