firedev.com

Fullstack / DesignOp / Team lead

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More than two decades of development and teamwork growing businesses from scratch while leading remote and in-house teams.

• Am: Founder / CTO / Team Lead
• Make: Full Stack Web Apps / Ruby / TypeScript
• And: Art Director / Designer
• Love: User-facing stuff / UI / UX / Prototypes 
• Like: UI Components / Data Visualization
• Did: Successful launches of large projects

I art direct, design, and love frontend. Love Rails and React affinity. Contribute to open source. 

• Backend with Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape, Sequel, Sidekiq
• Data exchange with Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, REST, RabbitMQ, GraphQL
• Frontend with React, Vue, Redux, Saga, Router, Apollo, PWA, WebRTC
• Continuous Integration with Circle, Travis, Jenkins, Concourse, Cirrus 
• Testing with Jest, Enzyme, RSpec, Cypress, Capybara, Cucumber

Full Stack Developer at Hubstaff.com, USA. Jun 2022 —

A platform that provides proof of work for organizations

• Technologies: Rails, Sidekiq, Vue, Postgres

Team Lead at Sber eApteka, Russia. Jul 2021— Mar 2022

Built a compliant scalable Cloud POS/Warehouse for the biggest Pharma e-commerce retailer in Russia. The project was put on hold after things turned sour. 

• Assembled a team of remote developers
• Built a working Pharmacy chain / POS / Warehouse
• Demo with Russian subtitles: Pharmacy chain, SSO/2FA, Scanner/Receipt Printer Integration, Invoices, POS, Pharmaceutical Warehouse

CTO at Learn21, Thailand. Jan 2017 — Nov 2019

Co-founded Learn21, an educational startup with a gamified approach to learning English. 

• Led a team of developers, teachers, graphics, video, and audio producers
• Delivered a distributed education platform in 11 schools in 3 Thai provinces
• Developed a multi-platform app with the multimedia content delivery system
• Made it easy for a non-computer literate team of teachers to create lessons
• Branched into online learning for Summer English Camp
• Presented at EDUCA Expo in Bangkok
• Personally taught classes in Thai Schools
• Lesson modules / Actual Lessons / Youtube Channel

Full Stack Developer at Flash Chat, USA. Nov 2020 — Jul 2021

Mobile PWA applications across multiple domains.

• Developed multiple Progressive Web Applications for rapid MVP iterations
• Lead small teams of handful developers for quick MVP iterations
• Implemented Video and Phone Calling with Quicklbox as backend
• Technologies: Typescript / React / Express / PWA / WebRTC + Quick/ Clickhouse / Docker

Full Stack Developer at Heartland Retail, USA. Jan 2015 — Dec 2018

Cloud POS and Retail Management System with extensive reporting functionality.

• Implemented store analytics dashboard to allow store staff to compare key metrics over periods
• Extended the reporting system with flexible UI to help visualize sales data
• Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq.

Team Lead / Full Stack Developer at 7Pikes, Russia. Jan 2011— Dec 2015

Distributed ERP and POS system powered 1300+ pharmacies across Russia.

• Coordinated the deployment and support of POS
• Worked on POS and other parts of the system to improve onboarding and day-to-day operations. 
• Developed various side projects like system Dashboard, Price list parser, and Motivation portal
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Redis, Sidekiq, MySQL, Chef, Elasticsearch

Co-Founder / Business / Developer of Phuket Project, Thailand Sep 2009 — Sep 2015

Created a real-estate ad board that transformed into one of the leading real estate agencies in Phuket, Thailand.

• Developed and designed the core functionality
• Lead a small team of developers to create a Customer- and Booking Management system to get the agency off the ground
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails

Co-Founder / Designer / Developer at Jaconda IM, Jul 2010 — May 2012

As a team of two, we’ve launched a chat platform for remote companies. 

• Designed interfaces for a streamlined group chat experience.
• Supported users around the world. 
• Technologies: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, EventMachine for XMPP integration

Projects

• https://bestthaifruits.com — Partner in the production and import of frozen Thai fruits. We brought the actual fruits from Thailand to Russian stores. Made branding and package design.
• https://heartlandretail.us — Designer/Developer. Point of Sale software. Full-stack developer and designer Ruby, ReactJS. Made sales dashboards and complex reporting for sales analytics.
• https://photo.gallery — Co-Founder. Professional Photography Gallery and a Static Website Generator. A two-people team where each of us was a developer, a designer, and provided user support.
• https://piluli.ru — Designer/Developer. Started with our own pharmacy later acquired by one of the leading Russian retailers X5.
• https://mindbox.ru — As an Art Director lead a team that won over long-term clients like L’Oreal, SunInBev, JTI, and BAT. Oversaw the development of advertising campaigns.
• https://zr.ru — Team Lead/Developer/Designer for “Behind the Wheel”, the Leading Russian Magazine devoted to cars.
• https://gipsyteam.ru — Team Lead/Developer/Designer for the Leading Russian Poker site. Helped the team that won the World Series of Poker to launch their own Poker School and Community.
• https://jaconda.im — Co-Founder. Business chat startup that failed to get traction before got killed by HipChat and then finally Slack and became masterbot.
• https://masterbot.rocks — Co-Founder. The first chatbot for Telegram. We started to work with Telegram. Shortly after our release, they opened the API for everybody which started the chatbot craze.
• https://phuketbuyhouse.com — Co-founder. We made AirBNB before they existed. Converted to a full-blown Real-estate agency.
• https://allhomesphuket.com — Founder of another own Real-estate agency. From scratch.
• https://headstartphuket.com — Team Lead/Design/Development. Made everything. From branding to the website with a built-in content builder and a publishing system for the school gazette.