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• Leading the transition to a Golang based microservices architecture to improve scalability and maintainability, architecting Payment Orchestrator and Payout Service.
• Maintaining existing application infrastructure and architecting new features to fulfill business requirements.
• Reducing CI/CD pipeline execution time by 30% by optimizing build processes, parallel testing ang self-hosted runners.
• Integrating with multiple payment providers, banks and external services, including Wise, Currency Cloud, DBS, to support Aspire’s global expansion.
• Continous monitoring and improving application performance. Refactoring existing core features, achieving up to 20x faster processing times.
• Spearheading infrastructure enhancements, including the transition to Docker containers, improving scalability and observability across our distributed application using OpenTelemetry and Grafana.
• Supporting company hiring needs by conducting interviews and reviewing code challenges for candidates.
• Ensuring platform security by implementing OWASP best practices, conducting regular security audits and investigating security incidents.

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• Leading and mentoring a team of 5 engineers in several projects, enforcing best practices, conducting code reviews, and providing guidance to developers, elevating the banking experience for financial institutions with serverless environment.
• Defining OKRs and KPIs, and ensuring the team’s alignment with the company’s goals, improving the team’s productivity by 20%.
• Reducing the time to market for internal dashboard features by creating a custom framework and reusable components, integrating with MongoDB and AWS services.
• Scaling up the team by hiring and onboarding new engineers, conducting interviews for in-house, remote and offshore positions.
• Improving CircleCI pipelines, delivering better developer experience, including flaky test reporting and parallel testing.
• Implementing AWS ECS and serverless infrastructure using CloudFormation templates to deliver a scalable and cost-effective solution.
• Developing a sense of ownership and discipline among fellow employees, and creating a culture of knowledge sharing by conducting multiple sessions on various topics.

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• Developing e-commerce and internal CRM platform managing orders, inventory, warranty claims, and customer data.
• Gradually migrating and refactoring legacy CakePHP system into Laravel framework, improving productivity and scalability without any downtime.
• Mentoring and conducting code reviews for junior developers.
• Incorporating serverless NodeJS services for high-traffic international events and raffles.
• Integrating with external services such as Shopify, Instagram, and Facebook.

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• Developing B2B and B2C ticketing platform for tours & activities in PHP7, Laravel and Vue.js.
• Implementing external API integrations and optimizing application performance.
• Conducting code reviews and mentoring junior developers.

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• Developing an event platform and splitting it to microservices.
• Designing and building a POS API based on Symfony 4 and frontend app on top of Raspberry Pi 3 using Electron and React with BOCA thermal printer.

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• Building various custom solutions for clients in PHP, Symfony 3, Yii, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, GraphQL.
• Analyzing business requirements and designing software architecture.
• Monitoring and optimizing application performance using New Relic and Blackfire.

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Developing e-commerce (Laravel and custom CMS) and social network system (Symfony 2)

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