Work experience

Python Team Lead

Senior Software Engineer/ Team Leader

Senior Software Engineer

Developer

Backend developer

Junior Software Engineer

Gitmax

Imagine

CEM Systems

SoftServe

1 year 11 months (DEC 2021 - CURR)

2 years 7 Months (APR 2019 - NOV 2021)

2 years 4 months (DEC 2016 - APR 2019)

3 years 9 months (May 2013 - dec 2016)

1 year 5 months (NOv 2011 - apr 2013)

2 years 7 months (MAR 2009 - oct 2011)

Revised all current development processes, suggested improvements on ci/cd, introduced backend auto-tests, static code analysis instruments, error watchdogs and alert triggers. Organised educational meet-ups.

As a developer:

Worked on new features
Fixed bugs
Implemented new search engine to the web portal
Transferred email sending to Mailganer via api
Consulted outsourced front-end developers on api structure
Added new api, changed current api behaviour
Documented business and technical features
Prepared/changed/improved ci/cd pipelines for backend and front-end microservices
Developed new features and fixed front-end bugs
Advised to business analysts on new services architecture
Performed functions of release engineer

As a teamlead:

Interviewed new team members
Guided development process in cases team needed technical expertise
Directed product backlog refinement meetings, decomposition meetings
Prepared code style guidelines for the team
Took part in setting SLA targets for product
Organised regular meetings with changes beneficiaries
Facilitated team communication with other members of the company

My technical stack:

Backend: Python 3.6-3.10, Django 2.1:3…, Fastapi, Asyncio, Aiohttp, Kafka, Redis, Postgresql
Front: Typescript, React (class based and functional components), Redux (saga and thunk)
Devops: Docker, k8s, Gitlab, Bash runners on bitbucket triggers
Monitoring: ELK, Grafana
Code quality, profiling: Sonarqube, Sentry, Newrelic

Python scripts for collecting, processing and representing data from data storage system (computer clusters).

Responsibilities:

Centos ISO creating/deploying;
Development of automatic replication system;
Development of functionality to store monitoring data;
Front-end development;
Estimation;
Code review;
Debugging and troubleshooting;
Communication with customer.

High-load web application for world-famous news company. I working as back-end developer (server site) on product that have to process many data in a real-time.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of Python scripts for processing XML/text data;
Implementation of scripts, which works with SOAP and HTTP REST Full web services;
Estimation;
Code review;
Communication with customer.

Web-interface for sales analysis system of a small gas-stations network, operational performance and sales analysis, mass sms sending scripts for loyalty system, bonus cards activation via sms.
Stack: Django, Firebird, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Redis, Firebird -> PostgreSQL replication, Celery.

Automatization of a traders' workplace for a proprietary trading system (emulated Windows user, OCR from screen and real-time Broadcast to console via curses app, reporting system automation, remote control via bot).
Stack: PIL, BeautifulSoup, Psycopg2, Multiprocessing.

High-load web application for world-famous news company. I working as back-end developer (server site) on product that have to process many data in a real-time.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of Python scripts for processing XML/text data;
Implementation of scripts, which works with SOAP and HTTP REST Full web services;
Estimation;
Code review;
Communication with customer.

Developed library for internal usage BASLib (Blade Administration System Library). It was implemented as SSH library (high level API) for executing one command on a several hosts.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of core features;
Estimation;
Code review;
Communication with customer.

Education

2011
Middlesex University
Computer Science, Programming

Nick Alvarez

Python Team Lead