Fitbit
- Led the design, implementation and launch of analytics processing pipeline and serving API.
Summary
Have been a computer geek since before it was cool. Programming for over two decades, these days I do all kinds of engineering: front-end, back-end and even reverse :-)
Working remotely with US-based companies since early 2000s.
Long track of Linux server administration and everyday use (RH-based, Debian-based, Gentoo, Alpine, etc)
Currently interested in systems programming, home automation, and machine learning.
Fluent written and spoken English (9.2 TrueNorth, C1-C2 CEFR Est.)
Experience
Cloud
- Implemented streaming API in internal inference infrastructure.
- Supported migration project to new inference APIs after team restructuring, providing services to internal customer teams.
- Briefly performed PM duties, facilitating cross-team communication, milestone alignment and release planning.
- Direct contracts as well as via Toptal, UpStack, Turing, etc.
- Clients include TaskRabbit, Industrious, HomeVestors, Bitwave, OneDoor and more.
- Roles and responsibilities vary from Senior Software Engineer to Tech Lead to "Mission Specialist".
Custom e-commerce platform, promo leaflets.
Led a greenfield project (Ruby on Rails + React.js) from discovery phase to production deployment, establishing team culture and best engineering practices (CI pipeline, pull requests, code reviews, automated style checks, etc).
- Guided a team through a transition to a formal workflow, introduced devops practices, significantly improving development process.
- Designed and implemented a low-latency network service (Scala) and a media processing pipeline (Python).
Custom e-commerce platform: order management, stock-keeping, accounting and content management modules, promo leaflets.
Prehistoric (1999 — 2009)
Project: migration of a modular PHP application engine (handover from Forma) to Ruby on Rails.
Project: a modular PHP application engine with a custom host management panel.
Project: Metamap.
Project: caching and image processing HTTP proxy server.
Projects: automated web clients, local class library, company site internationalization engine (internal tools), statistic analysis.
Various web projects
Project: students and teachers database, user interface, web interface.