VP of Technology / Lead Full Stack Engineer

Benztown Branding USA - leading radio imaging company

Glendale, CA / Remote

Mar 2019 - Present

As the VP of Technology, I assumed responsibility for all technical aspects of the company, including the development of new products, maintenance of existing products, and management of the infrastructure.

• Improved reliability:
• Created Kubernetes infrastructure for all company services.
• Set up fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Implemented monitoring and alerting for all services using Prometheus Stack, error tracker, and uptime monitoring.
• Established backups and disaster recovery plans for databases, volumes, and Kubernetes resources.
• Achieved 99.999% uptime for all services over a span of two years.
• Utilized Infrastructure as Code tools such as ArgoCD GitOps, Helm, and Kustomize.

• Improved security:
• Implemented static code analyzers and automated dependency checks.
• Ensured no credentials are stored in the codebase.
• Ensured complete separation between environments.
• Migrated the custom authentication system to Keycloak SSO and enhanced the password hashing algorithm.
• Enforced 2FA across the company.
• Enforced secure password management.
• Implemented proper IAM roles and permissions enforcement.

• Developed AI powered products for the radio industry:
• Implemented similarity audio search
• Developed AI powered voice generation application for radio imaging
• Trained AI audio classification model for genres and keywords.

• Created a frontend application for the company's flagship product.
• Utilized Next.js and TypeScript with React for the frontend, Ruby on Rails for the API
• Developed a highly maintainable complex application using Redux, Redux-Saga, and other libraries
• Conducted testing using Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.

• Maintained and improved a 13-year-old Ruby on Rails backend application.
• Enhanced performance by optimizing SQL queries on database tables containing millions of rows.
• Upgraded a Rails 4 application to the latest Rails 7 version.
• Updated dependencies that were outdated for several years.
• Eliminated unused features and their dependencies.
• Refactored legacy code to enhance maintainability and testability.
• Significantly increased test coverage by writing meaningful unit and integration tests.
• Implemented a search engine for audio files, users, logs, and other resources using Elasticsearch.

• Automated administrative tasks:
• Automated billing and invoicing using the Stripe API.
• Automated audio management tasks, including audio processing, signal splitting, and metadata extraction.
• Utilized AI for generating descriptions for audio files.
• Implemented data exporting tools for analytics and reporting purposes.

Technical Team Leader

Netguru - a software house

Remote

Sept 2017 - Mar 2019

During my time as a Team Leader, I led multiple technical projects. I managed teams of developers and consulted with clients. Additionally, I mentored less experienced colleagues in my role as a mid-level manager.

• Led the development of small, medium, and large-scale projects

• Conducted code reviews and pair programming sessions to maintain high standards in the projects.

• Created products from scratch, maintained, and extended mature applications.

• Developed APIs for single-page applications (SPAs) and maintained Rails view projects.

• Managed a team of seven developers as a leader (manager), providing mentorship, supervising development goals and careers, and evaluating their performance and skills.

• Consulted on company-wide policies with leaders and executives.

• Coordinated the recruitment process in a department of 90 developers, automating manual steps, unifying requirements and feedback processes, introducing recruitment tasks, and conducting interviews for junior, regular, and senior positions.

• Spoke at company meetups, organized internal hackathons, and coached attendees in Ruby on Rails workshops.

• Consulted with clients during scoping sessions, project workshops, and technical project reviews.

• Administered Kubernetes clusters

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Netguru - software house

Remote

Jan 2015 - Sept 2017

As a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer, I led Ruby on Rails projects, managed teams of RoR developers, and consulted with clients.

• Led development in 4 projects.

• Conducted recruitment interviews ranging from junior to senior levels.

Ruby on Rails Developer

E-price - e-commerce company

Remote

Dec 2013 - Jan 2015

Built e-commerce CRM software managing sales via api integrations (SOAP, REST, OAUTH).

PHP Developer

E-price - e-commerce company

Remote

Sep 2010 - Dec 2013

Developed and maintained e-commerce software.

• Maintained an e-commerce store.

• Integrated products with online auction services and e-stores.

• Built an invoicing system.

• Developed software for managing Points of Sales.

• Created a warehouse management web application.

• Developed an admin panel for bulk product editing.

• Configured and administered VPS servers.