Position: Technical Lead / Solutions Architect
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 9

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Technical Lead with over 9 years of commercial experience in web. I mostly design/build back-end systems for web apps of varying complexity from scratch, fully event-driven or not, serverless and cloud-based or not, with or without building the infrastructure for it in AWS or on-premise. I take ownership, do what is best for business, and use technology and tools rationally.

Experience:

Technical Lead
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022 (4 years 6 months)

(latest)
Project: the largest American bridal-store chain. Was part of the US team responsible for developing a fully serverless system in AWS - a single source of truth for storing financial transactions data from the downstream systems of the client - and then helped establish a reliable two-way pub/sub communication between it and an e-commerce platform. Took part in integrating with payment systems, tax compliance software. Took part in finance-related problems solving, management and workload delegation, architectural decisions, knowledge transfer, and mentoring.

Project: crypto stocks trading platform built in Rust, Solana, anchor framework, and typescript. The project allows people with limited access to stock markets to trade synthetic crypto-representation of real stocks instead. Researched, designed, and drafted the whitepaper, and developed the smart contracts for the basic operations: minting, burning, etc. Prototyped the front-end part and led the dev work on it. Have a solid understanding of the underlying financials, math, and the project's business model. Real-life competitors: mirror protocol (dead, the infamous UST crash), synthetify (Solana-based synthetics, but not for stocks).

Project: an ERP product. Full pivot towards the typescript stack, Postgres, elasticsearch. Initial app structure design and setup, development. Upgraded to react hooks, added linters, and code quality tools. Was responsible for hosting and deployment.

Project: a wedding wishlist. Dev work, deployment, code review, mentoring, conducting tech interviews. Led a team of 7 devs. Developed complex project-specific finance-related functionality, a new shopping cart experience. Support, and direct communication with the client. Added monitoring, tests, linters, and other code quality tools.

Software Engineer
2014-2018