Position: Ruby (Ruby on Rails) Developer
Category: Ruby
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

10+ years overall tech experience in partnership and collaboration both with IT-service and product-companies

Got a successful Team Lead experience (various small and larger 10+ folks teams)
Involved in recruitment, candidate interviewing, performance evaluation track

**Present**: leading up a full-stack team (10+ peps), helping out our US customers to succeed in the
E-commerce SaaS industry which was the #1 E-commerce Website builder for Shopify at the moment!
**Recent**: lead a squad of top-tier senior ruby engineers in a multinational environment, including folks from Croatia and China building a new generation of the world-class product for team/employees
appreciation

**Earlier also**: acted as a Team Lead of a small but experienced RoR team crafting the server APIs for web
& mobile apps of Moving& Storage business in the US. Also at that same time involved in the company's Team
Manager activities, taking care of teammates across their projects, and day-to-day work in the company
(held 1-1s, standups, retros, different team-building activities across multiple projects)

**Past**: held the role of Technical Lead at a young IT-outsourcing company, preferably focused on PHP/JS
& Python technology stack, offering custom solutions on top of powerful frameworks such as Laravel,
Angular, Ionic, Django.

I also had a solid experience in the past (about 3 years) in E-commerce (PHP/Zend, Magento, Yii, as
well as frontend) domain.


**Some of the latest achievements I'm proud of**: 
- hocked up an integration with Microsoft Graph API for the SaaS/IaaS in the "Phishing Defence" domain (a plug-in to an existent microservice environment adding another layer of processing)
- production running and building Elixir microservice from scratch for FinTech product
- lead a full-stack team, building a separate B2B version of the service (an API for new mobile apps) - with that help our customer in the US raised a couple of rounds of investments on the solution/stages we've built! ($$$)
- own product/startups experience, sales, marketing, customer development tryouts
So, no surprises :) I’m a Full-stack Software Engineer (with already 10+ commercial development experience)

I'm solid in Ruby (Rails, Hotwire, Sinatra, Grape, ActiveJob, Sidekiq, Rspec, Cucumber, Elixir/Phoenix/OTP) and RDMS/Queues: Postgres, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ. As well as DevOps and deployment tools: incl. Linux, Nginx, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker/Docker-compose, CircleCI, AWS, Heroku. 
Frontend/JS: AngularJS, Emberjs & other SPA and non-SPA frameworks, e.g. Hotwire/StimulusJS, etc.

Easily can start a new project from scratch alone or in/with a team (lead and mentor a team further), or level up your legacy code as well!

Got a successful Team Lead experience: various small and larger (10+ folks) teams. 
Including recruitment, new candidates interviewing, performance evaluation track

My specialties and present focus leads to web apps and backend, cloud services, SaaS/PaaS's, SPA/Mobile Apps; Web3/Solidity, Blockchain/Dapps development
Interested in long-term product development, SaaS/PaaS web/mobile services, and CRM solutions. Looking forward to joining up a dedicated team of professionals in their business who feel passionate about their work and enjoy doing it.

Quite interested in relocation opportunities to the US, Portugal (spouse with 1 little kid, visa sponsorship is required).