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Education

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VK

English:

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Valeri K.

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Georgia

UTC +04:00

Asia/Tbilisi

English:

Proficient

Full-stack lead developer with experience in building highly scalable performant web apps. Listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Technology in 2021,

Listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Technology in 2021, has extensive experience in building products from 0-1 and scaling large digital products for Nike, Epam systems etc... Has been a CTO for multiple projects and has done technical interviews, has led multiple project teams and has been involved in C-level tech decision making for huge digital products.

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Expertise

Years of commercial development experience

8 years of experience

Core technologies

Node.js 8 years
JavaScript 8 years
TypeScript 8 years
React.js 5 years
MongoDB 8 years
PostgreSQL 8 years

Other technologies

AWS
Express.js
React Native
Docker
Cypress
Jest
Nest

Project Highlights

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Engineering Team Lead

Payfit

Aug `22 - Nov `22

3 months

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs. Payfit has built a fast, intuitive and automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money, allowing them to refocus and what matters - their employees. Payfit has set itself a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever-growing range of product features and services.

Responsibilities & achievements

● Interviewed candidates and built a team from scratch; ● Organized processes and procedures from scratch for the new team and chose Kanban based on the project specifications; ● Identified tasks, created main and sub-tasks, and prioritized tickets on Jira based on importance and urgency; ● Established coding standards and best practices; ● Conducted and led: daily standups, retrospective, and knowledge-sharing calls; ● Prepared and provided weekly/bi-weekly reports to the Engineering Manager and the Delivery Manager; ● Proactively communicated problems and potential improvements based on the retrospective outcome with relevant people to unblock my team from actual and future impediments; ● Created channels with teams around us to communicate effectively and exchange information that we needed from them

AWS
Express.js
MongoDB
Node.js
TypeScript
Docker
Jest
GraphQL
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Senior Software Engineer / Engineering team lead

Nike

May `21 - Jul `22

1 year

Nike

A new generation buy plan application that benefits Nike's assortment planners for the Nike Stores in EMEA. It replaces an Excel-based manual workflow involving orders worth millions and brings value by streamlining and delivering better accuracy. It analyses data from past seasons to plan future capacity for upcoming seasons.

Responsibilities & achievements

● Converted business requirements from stakeholders to technical tasks and wrote technical solutions for later implementation; ● Introduced knowledge-sharing calls; ● Introduced the idea to move “tribal knowledge” into documentation and executed it. ● Built the backend architecture of the new project that our team started working on from scratch and did the initial setup of the project; ● Feature implementing (backend + frontend), documenting, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end, load testing), code and DB query optimizations, maintenance, bug fixing, and refactoring;

AWS
Express.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
React.js
TypeScript
Docker
Cypress
Jest
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Senior Software Engineer / Resource Manager / Engineering Team Lead

Epam Systems

Apr `21 - Nov `22

2 years

Worked on multiple projects with Epam Systems. Was a team lead for Javascript / Node.js and led team of 10+ developers in multiple projects

Responsibilities & achievements

● Resource manager. Responsible for 12 software engineers’ motivation, conflict resolution, retention, mentoring, performance and salary review, regular 1:1 calls, personal development planning, and providing relevant resources for their professional growth; ● Global assessment expert (the first ASMT expert in the Node.js discipline from Georgia); ● Global technical interview expert; ● Pre-sales expert in technical direction (won a $1.3M deal)

AWS
Express.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
React.js
TypeScript
Docker
Cypress
Jest
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Mobile app engineering lead

Orbi Group

Aug `20 - Dec `22

2 years

Created 2 cross-platform applications for one of the largest Real estate developers in the country using react native. The app enables property owners to manage tenancy in their properties and pay utilities and their membership fees. On the other hand, we also created a second application for Orbi group employees to manage tenants and see availability in the properties.

Responsibilities & achievements

React Native
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Lead Software Engineer / Engineering Team Lead

Connecteer

Dec `19 - Mar `22

2 years

At Connecteer, we are on a mission to redefine business partnerships and customer acquisition Connecteer is an interdisciplinary team of engineers, marketers and digital experts. We created an application for SDR s to automate messaging and offering to our clients. The product was an integral part for scaling the company and was a timesaver for the org.

Responsibilities & achievements

Team leading and technical mentoring; ● Created Proof of Concept. Tested capabilities of a potential solution before implementing it into the project; ● Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored employees; ● Converted business requirements from stakeholders to technical tasks; ● Established coding standards and best practices: naming convention, git commit message convention, style guide, prettier / linter / git hooks, code review, branching strategy, etc.; ● Conducted and led: daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospective calls; ● Reporting to the stakeholders: sprint demos, progress, risks, etc.; ● Built CI/CD with GitHub Actions; ● Feature implementing (backend + frontend), documenting, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end, code and DB query optimizations, maintenance, bug fixing, and refactoring

Express.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
React.js
Socket.IO
TypeScript
WebSockets
Jest
Nest
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Software engineer / Lead Software Engineer / CTO

Lingwing

Jun `15 - Feb `20

5 years

Lingwing is an e-learning provider for language learners. The product is similar to Duolingo and adds additional functionalities to the product. Lingwing is the most interactive free online platform for learning languages! We will help you to improve your reading, speaking, listening and writing skills.

Responsibilities & achievements

Valeri worked his way up from Junior Developer to CTO of the product ● Team leading and technical mentoring; ● Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored employees; ● Brainstormed new ideas with stakeholders about product development; ● Converted business requirements from stakeholders to technical tasks; ● Conducted and led: daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospective calls, and quarter planning; ● Reporting to the stakeholders: sprint demos, progress, risks; ● Built CI/CD with Jenkins; ● Feature implementing (backend + frontend), documenting, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end, load testing), code optimizations, maintenance, bug fixing, refactoring, and 3rd party integrations (Stripe, Paypal, local payment gateways);

AngularJS
AWS
Express.js
JavaScript
MongoDB
Node.js
Mocha
Chai.js

Education

Higher education in Computer Science

Agency

Product Design & Development agency #2407

100-400

GMT+2

Tbilisi, Georgia

Core Expertise

AWS
C#
Express.js
GitHub
HTML5
JavaScript
JIRA
MongoDB
MySQL
.NET
Node.js
PHP
PostgreSQL
React.js
React Native
WordPress
CSS3
Laravel Framework
Woocommerce
Wordpress Plugin
Postman
Redux
Swagger
Vue.js
Flutter
Nest
.NET Core
Figma
Redux-saga
Firebase
Vuex
Tailwind CSS

Industries

Education & Science, Banking & Finance, Construction & Real estate, Advertising & Marketing, Internet & Telecom, Healthcare & Medicine, Food & Drink, Insurance & Risk Management, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Automotive, Branding, design, web development

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