Senior Freelance Developer, VP of Engineering, Lead Developer / Team Manager

* managed the transition from the freelancer based to the in-house development team
* created our own very effective agile development methodology
* greatly increased cohesion between business, design and development units
* improved deployment and development process (push-button deployment and development
environments) by moving to a cloud app platform
* introduced "code for the next guy" development practices that are already giving stability and
speed benefits
* made a lot of jokes

Technologies: Symfony 2, Backbone.js, AngularJS, MySQL, Redis, Github, Jenkins, Heroku.

Leaseweb is one of the biggest hosting companies in the world. I was hired to work on their
customer self service portal. In my short time there I have helped them to change their
architecture to allow easier expansion of the cloud services, created API facade for product
registration APIs and helped with an orchestration and configuration management systems
trials (we've looked at Chef, Puppet and Ansible).

Technologies: Symfony 2, Symfony 1, MySQL, APIs, Chef.

QuantaCann is the provider of the internet enabled test instruments for the medical
laboratories. I was developing the client portal where all the test results are collected and
analysis and reporting is performed. Except for the usual coding I also had to manage our
servers connection with the remote instruments.

Technologies: Symfony 2, MySQL, Vanilla JS.

Extensive site with the large Symfony codebase. I was instrumental in setting up their
development environment and processes (bugtracker, dvcs, reporting).

As for the programming side, my biggest achievement is the site search. There are a lot of
content at youplanet and their custom built PostgreSQL based search was struggling to handle
that (to the point of almost being unusable). I have moved them first to the Zend Lucene and
then to the Solr server.

Technologies: Symfony 1, Solr/Lucene/Elasticsearch, Memcache, PostgreSQL.

Symfony2 project for the clients intranet that allows his insurance company and its agents to
manage insured cars and applications. Included complicated insurance period conflicts
resolution system and UI for that.

Technologies: Symfony 2, MySQL.

This is very high load site. Their main business is distributing browser plugins that "enhances"
facebook interface. That means that they get few hits every time user is moving through
facebook. And also a lot of hits every x seconds from the polling for the new notifications those
plugins do. I was the point man in optimising their speed: separate server clusters for the
static, dynamic and polling content, load balancing, optimising database, memcache, replacing
apache with litespeed and nginx and even reducing scripts execution time on the polling
servers (I had to write faster, but method-for-method compatible alternatives for the few of the
Zend Framework modules we were using).

Also, at this place I had to do a lot of a javascript coding. Including writing a lot of cross
browser compatible interface code without using any libraries (we were using jQuery for the
site itself, but we were trying to keep plugin code as small as possible - so no libraries).

Technologies: Heavy Vanilla JS, Zend Framework 1, Memcache, MySQL.

Extensive white label dating system. Not only I was senior developer, team and project leader
for this job, but I was also tasked with interviewing and hiring temporary help when needed.

Milwaukee based startup that could be described as yelp combined with the social network.

Dating site for the people with STDs. Except for being lead programmer I also had to manage a
team of 11 people (technical and support personnel). There were no dating site scripts to use or
base on back then, so we had to write everything from scratch.

Under my supervision project grew from a dating site to a white label service that clients could
customise to their own specific niche.

My start as a web developer and different small tasks for the local companies. There are
Archive.org crawls of my personal project that are dated back to the February of 01.