Ivan Novak
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solution Architect and Developer
Pflugerville, TX, United States
Toptal member since February 2, 2022
Ivan is a technical founder, principal engineer, and solution architect with 20 years of experience. He has participated in and founded multiple startups and is familiar with the highest highs and lowest lows that owners go through. Recently, he helped grow a startup from a $4 million to $87 million valuation in three years with a successful Series A round. Ivan's in-depth understanding and strategic approach have enabled him to deliver numerous products.
Portfolio
Experience
- PHP - 17 years
- JavaScript - 16 years
- WordPress - 14 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
- Laravel - 8 years
- React - 7 years
- Ansible - 4 years
- Docker - 3 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, PhpStorm, Git, Docker, Sublime Text, Software Development, PHP 8
The most amazing...
...product I've developed is an in-house eCommerce platform that abstracted any merchant provider or billing platform without changing the client-facing API.
Work Experience
Principal Engineer
OnlineMedEd
- Spearheaded the implementation of high-fidelity monitoring across five core domain products to improve customer awareness and target areas for further investment.
- Led the integration and subsequent leveraging of platform-wide analytics serviced through Segment.com to measure how the site is being used, allowing for quantitative experimentation and optimization.
- Oversaw an infrastructure overhaul that improved the reliability, scalability, and performance of the five core domain products, reducing the ongoing costs by 80%.
- Served as the primary technical liaison throughout the raising of the Series A investment round.
- Served as a key partner in the organizational transition away from siloed technical knowledge to an agile, full-lifecycle responsibility team structure with an embedded product, design, front-end, back-end, and QA working closely throughout projects.
Web Consultant and Developer
Novak Web Solutions LLC
- Created TechTe.am, a high-touch, 24/7 on-demand, virtually embedded emergency response team specializing in mission-critical operations requiring a high degree of comfort with network and code-level services.
- Created DollarInvoice.com, an invoicing SaaS requiring zero subscription commitments and only charges per invoice sent from the system.
- Created TradeSeeker, an automated financial analysis, micro-trend detection, and position action application based on streaming security, forex, and cryptocurrency data.
- Created BitCozy, a high availability hosting provider for mission-critical online services to offer support and automated provisioning of multi-availability zone hosting clusters.
IT Director
Contemporary VA
- Decreased overhead labor costs associated with billing, human resources, and time management from 47% to 24%.
- Automated 92% of billing processes with the only manual processes being the crediting of customer service credits and/or manual discounts or time on file.
- Developed a platform tailored for scalability, a core factor in revenue doubling in the past two calendar years.
- Created and deployed iPhone and Android mobile apps.
- Automated video workflow processes, cutting labor hours by 40%.
- Assured that the #3 site in the Dominican Republic maintained 100% uptime SLA.
Experience
TechTe.am
https://techte.amBitCozy
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
California State University, Northridge - Northridge, California, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Pepperdine University - Malibu, California, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Stripe, Stripe API, Stripe Connect, WordPress API, Vue, jQuery, Node.js, OpenAI API, HubSpot API, Stripe Connect API
Tools
Git, Composer, GitHub, Slack, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Zapier, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, Webpack, AWS ELB, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Ansible, Auth0, AWS IAM, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Jenkins, HelpScout, Google Analytics, Terraform, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), RabbitMQ, Gulp, Apache, n8n
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP 7, PHP 8, Python, SQL, GraphQL, SCSS, Dart
Frameworks
Laravel, Vapor, PHPUnit, Flutter, Tailwind CSS, React Native, Bootstrap, Twig, CodeIgniter, Next.js
Paradigms
Microservices, UI Design, Web Performance Optimization (WPO), Low-code Development, Rapid Prototyping, Agile Software Development, Automation, DevOps, Agile, Mobile Development, Management
Platforms
MacOS, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, WordPress, Laravel Vapor, DigitalOcean, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Linux, Twilio, HubSpot, Webflow, Vercel, Ubuntu 16.04, PagerDuty, Google Ads, AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka, Ubuntu 14.04, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Android, iOS
Storage
PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Database Architecture, Databases, Redis, Redis Cache, Google Cloud
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Other
Amazon Route 53, Software Development, Technical Leadership, Full-stack, Architecture, Back-end, Software Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), SaaS, API Integration, APIs, Third-party APIs, Third-party Integration, Load Time, PHP Performance, Performance, Site Speed Optimization, Website Performance, Responsive UI, Web UI, Code Review, Software Architecture, Pixel Perfect, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Full-stack Development, Web Development, Payment APIs, eCommerce, Video APIs, OpenAI, eCommerce CMS, Medical Applications, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Workflow Automation & System Integration, Process Automation, Solution Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Engineering, AI Tools, AI Copilots, Cursor AI, AI Design, AI Programming, AI Agents, Agentic RAG Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), System Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Debugging, Deployment, System Architecture, AI-generated Code, Agentic AI Systems, CSV, Planning, AI Chatbots, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), AI-assisted Development, Workflow Automation, Amazon RDS, AWS CodePipeline, Leadership, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, IT Security, Cloudflare, Front-end, CTO, Fractional CTO, Mobile App Development, Auditing, Accessibility, Videos, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Airtable, OAuth, Two-factor Authentication (2FA), ChatGPT API, OpenAI GPT-3 API, Architectural Engineering, Chatbots, ElevenLabs Solutions, Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Mentorship, Team Mentoring, Multimodal Models
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