Position: Senior PHP Developer / Team Lead / Software Architect / CTO
Category: Lead
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 11

I am a PHP web developer and solutions architect with 17 years of commercial experience in online dating, online casinos, affiliate systems, online support systems and email distribution systems. My work is often based to find and develop technical solutions which helps create high available web services

For the last 10 years I have been a team leader it taught me:
 - How to recruit highly qualified technical specialists to my team
 - How to build a simple and clear development process, SCRUM and Kanban have always helped me with it
 - How to keep my team efficient and stay motivated

I am strong in:
- Developing architecture for scalable, high-load services
- Building development process, hiring, intra-command communication
- Evaluating the effectiveness of employees
- Translating business needs into technical requirements
- Creating roadmaps and plans of development
- Managing risks, balance team resources

Used technologies: PHP, MySQL, MySQL Galera Cluster, Redis, Rabbit MQ, Nginx, Docker, Node JS, React JS, Elastic Search, Sentry, Grafana, AWS (EC2, ECS, Route 53, CloudFront), GitLab, Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket + Bamboo, Slack
NDA (Dating) oct 2019 - mar 2021
Chief Technology Officer
My responsibilities:
- supporting three projects at the same time
- interviewing and hiring a technical team
- managing technical team: Back-end, Front-end, Android and IOS developers, QA, DevOps
- managing teams located in different cities
- developing multisite dating platform. ( Back-end: Symfony, REST API. Front-end: ReactJS SPA application )
- building development processes, setting up CI / CD
- developing services in Docker containers
- building a new infrastructure on AWS
- creating automatic sandbox for QA

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Redis, Rabbit MQ, Nginx, Docker, Node JS, React JS, Elastic Search, Sentry, Grafana, AWS (EC2, ECS, Route 53, CloudFront), GitLab, Jira + Confluence, Slack

NDA (Gambling) sep 2015 - oct 2019
Chief Technology Officer
Team size ~ 40 people
My responsibilities:
- Interviewing and hiring technical team
- building a highly available service architecture
- developing modules for the main product
- developing multisite online casino platform
- developing services which support the main platform
- managing technical team: Back-end and Front-end developers, QA and Automation QA, System Administrators
- building development processes and developing production deployment procedure
- integrating game and payment providers
- preparing platform for getting Curaçao, UK, MGA eGaming license and PCI DSS certification
- DRP building experience
- experience with multiple hosting providers
- implementing Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, GitLab
- supporting system uptime 24/7

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Redis, Rabbit MQ, Nginx, Node JS, React JS, Elastic Search, Sentry, Grafana, GitLab, Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket + Bamboo