Tim Mishutin, Developer in Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Tim Mishutin

Bio

Tim is a highly motivated and ambitious tech lead with a strong background in web full-stack development. He loves to translate business to tech, solve complicated problems, lead teams, help people grow, write scalable code, and create something that people like to use and makes their lives easier. Tim has a strong background in DevOps, product and people management, and business.

Portfolio

Woub
Laravel, Vue, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, JavaScript, Back-end, REST APIs...
Mors IT Enterprise
PHP, WordPress, High-load, NGINX, Load Balancers, Caching, WooCommerce...
Exact
Joomla, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Agile, Scrum, IT Project Management...

Experience

  • JavaScript - 12 years
  • MySQL - 12 years
  • Laravel - 9 years
  • High-load - 9 years
  • PHP - 8 years
  • CI/CD Pipelines - 8 years
  • Vue - 7 years
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) - 3 years

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Linux, PhpStorm, Visual Studio, GitLab, Slack, GitHub, OpenAI, AWS IoT

The most amazing...

...thing I’ve developed is a project communication and productivity platform that is currently helping hundreds of companies to eliminate failure costs.

Work Experience

Chief Technology Officer

2018 - 2025
Woub
  • Developed a RESTful API with automated tests and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Led a team of developers in building the front end and mobile application.
  • Migrated the system to AWS and implemented dynamic scaling.
  • Implemented a real-time architecture using Socket.IO and Laravel Echo Server.
Technologies: Laravel, Vue, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, JavaScript, Back-end, REST APIs, Sockets, Socket.IO, People Management, IT Project Management, CTO, MySQL, CI/CD Pipelines, TypeScript, Zapier, Algorithms, Automation, SQL Injection Protection, Puppeteer, Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, WebSockets, Architecture, Scalability, Security, OpenAI, OpenAI API, Chatbots, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, LEMP, Web Development, Business to Business (B2B), Technical Leadership, Shell, Trello, SaaS, Software Architecture, DevOps, Relational Database Services (RDS), Cloudflare, AWS IoT, Playwright

Freelance Senior Full-stack Developer

2018 - 2019
Mors IT Enterprise
  • Developed a WooCommerce webshop with a lot of custom modules, integrations, and reports.
  • Handled the project, which quickly became a high-load webshop, leading to slow WordPress responses. Implemented Nginx caching on the front end, added PHP-FPM clusters to load balance PHP requests, and created a MySQL cluster with multiple read nodes.
  • Implemented REST API with bearer token authentication based on WooCommerce functionality for mobile app.
  • Implemented custom statistics module in existing custom CRM based on Laravel.
  • Created WooCommerce integrations with payment providers, drop shipping, CRM, and stock management systems.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, High-load, NGINX, Load Balancers, Caching, WooCommerce, REST APIs, Magento, Front-end, CSS, JavaScript, CI/CD Pipelines, eCommerce, Laravel, Redis, WooCommerce API, XML Parsing, Document Parsing, Laravel Forge, Stripe API, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Algorithms, Automation, SQL Injection Protection, LEMP, LAMP, Web Development, Business to Business (B2B), MariaDB, Shell, Trello, SaaS, Software Architecture, DevOps, React, Relational Database Services (RDS), Cloudflare, AWS IoT

Product Owner | Senior PHP Developer

2017 - 2018
Exact
  • Worked on a high-load marketing website based on popular CMS.
  • Merged two codebases of two marketing departments in one codebase.
  • Acted as a product owner and was responsible for sprint retrospectives and presentations for stakeholder.
  • Managed contacts with a cloud provider and external outsourcing and ensured that all technical aspects of the server architecture and code are properly aligned.
  • Led platform migration project to a new PHP version.
  • Scaled automation testing based on GhostInspector to ensure stability and availability of the websites.
Technologies: Joomla, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Agile, Scrum, IT Project Management, People Management, Front-end, Back-end, Algorithms, Automation, Web Development, Business to Business (B2B), Technical Leadership, Shell, Trello, DevOps

Founder

2012 - 2018
SecurHoster
  • Founded SecureHoster that quickly became popular in budget web hosting solutions.
  • Worked on the web hosting panel based on ISPconfig with a lot of custom modifications to ensure stability and security for shared hosting environments.
  • Sold the company with over 700 clients and 30 countries in 2018.
  • Migrated high-load projects to new managed servers with fail-over or load-balancing architecture.
  • Found critical ISPconfig security issues and proposed a solution for them.
  • Custom-implemented Let's Encrypt in ISPconfig, included updating SSL before expiration, re-generated Nginx and Apache configs.
  • Created a custom module for WHMCS for processing iDeal payments directly via ING bank connection.
  • Built a module in ISPconfig to control the client's load on the server CPU, RAM, SQL, and IOPS. Implemented thresholds per client with a connection to WHMCS, re-checks, and graphs, notifications, and auto suspension of the web hosting package.
  • Implemented a custom monitoring and statistics system based on Laravel.
Technologies: PHP, NGINX, Apache, MySQL, Redis, High-load, WHMCS, ISPConfig, Debian, CentOS, DirectAdmin, cPanel, Proxmox, Load Balancers, Failover Solutions, WordPress, Web Security, Laravel, Zabbix, JavaScript, CI/CD Pipelines, API Integration, DNS, Front-end, CSS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), XML Parsing, Document Parsing, Algorithms, Automation, SQL Injection Protection, LEMP, LAMP, Web Development, Business to Business (B2B), Technical Leadership, MariaDB, Shell, Trello, Relational Database Services (RDS), Cloudflare, DevOps, AWS IoT

Senior Full-stack Developer | Team Lead

2013 - 2017
VANAD Group
  • Worked on an innovative call center software that includes phone, mail, chat, social media, and much more modules.
  • Developed real-time REST chat application with HTTP long-poll technique and dynamic routing to available agent based on routing strategy and skill set.
  • Created a mail module and allows call center agents to answer customer emails from the system; emails were routed based on routing strategy and agent skill set.
  • Set up a new team of developers in the United States. Selected the best candidates from around 300 resumes and interviewed more than 20 candidates.
  • Created a deep integration with a social media monitoring system. Module routed social media posts to available agents based on routing strategy and skill set.
  • Implemented Sphinx for deep-text search through the system.
  • Created real-time reports screen with business-critical KPIs with complex MySQL queries.
Technologies: PHP, Zend Framework, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Linux, Asterisk, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), High-load, Ansible, OOP Designs, Git, SQL, Load Balancers, REST APIs, XML Parsing, Algorithms, Automation, LAMP, Web Development, Business to Business (B2B), Technical Leadership, Shell, Relational Database Services (RDS)

Experience

AI Customer Support Agent with Multi-tool Integration

I built an intelligent AI agent designed to autonomously handle customer support tasks by integrating multiple external tools and services via MCP servers. The agent leverages advanced language models (OpenAI GPT-4 and Gemini 2.5 pro) to interpret customer requests, perform retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from a company knowledge base, and execute practical actions such as creating and updating tickets via Zendesk APIs and Zapier. It incorporates long-term conversational memory using vector databases and can seamlessly escalate complex queries to human agents through Slack, based on sentiments.

My role encompassed designing the system architecture, implementing REST API integrations, engineering robust prompts, and optimizing workflows for efficiency. The agent was containerized using Docker and deployed on AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability. Comprehensive monitoring was established with New Relic.

High-performance Screenshot API Service for Scalable Web Automation

I developed a robust, high-performance screenshot API service designed to simplify and scale website screenshot automation across multiple projects. Leveraging Node.js with Express for rapid back-end API development and Puppeteer to control headless Chromium browsers, this service efficiently captures both full-page and element-specific screenshots.

To ensure performance and scalability, I implemented a pre-warmed browser context pool pattern, significantly reducing response times by avoiding cold-start delays. P-queue manages concurrency, enabling reliable handling of up to 10,000 concurrent screenshot requests. The system includes advanced features such as localStorage and cookie injection, event-based rendering that waits for dynamic sites, automated viewport adjustments, ad-blocking capabilities, and custom logging for performance tracing.

Deployed using Docker on AWS Fargate and optimized with Cloudflare, the architecture ensures reliable, fast, and secure responses. The API outputs images in JSON, binary, PDF, and ZIP formats, supporting versatile integration scenarios.

Transfer Website

https://transfer.website/
I developed a SaaS that allows people to transfer a website from one server to another, change domain names, and make backups without routing work.

Clients can fill in SFTP credentials that are being stored encrypted, and the system will move all files. They can also export and import the database on any web hosting provider, tested with a 100GB database on a cheap hosting with very low limits, and replace all needed configuration parameters like database credentials, paths, and domain names, resulting in fully automated, fast, and secure website migrations. The system handles WordPress serializations, Magento caching, and other CMS-related cases automatically.

Custom Monitoring System

A personal project used for a web hosting company.

I developed custom server monitoring based on Laravel, Bootstrap, and Google Charts. The system tracked critical server parameters, such as HTTP, FTP, and other network traffic, as well as CPU, RAM, disk usage, SMTP, POP, IMAP services, DNS, NGINX connections, and MySQL load. In addition, I implemented SMS Clickatell and email notifications based on configurable thresholds and visualization in graphs with primitive anomaly detection.

De of Het Expert

https://deofhet.expert/
A lightweight website that allows people to check the article of Dutch words quickly. It uses background parsers to collect words from tens of different sources and inserts or updates the words found in the database.

Education

2013 - 2018

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming

University Rotterdam - Rotterdam, Netherlands

Certifications

OCTOBER 2025 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2025 - OCTOBER 2028

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Amazon Web Services

JULY 2025 - JULY 2028

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Amazon Web Services

Skills

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, REST APIs, Vue, WooCommerce API, Stripe, Stripe API, Puppeteer, Doctrine, Sockets, Socket.IO, Pusher, Google Chart API, React, Node.js, OpenAI API, Zendesk API, Playwright

Tools

NGINX, Git, Zapier, PhpStorm, Apache, Shell, Trello, AWS ELB, Visual Studio, GitLab, Slack, Skype, Postfix, Nagios, Zabbix, Ansible, Jira, Asterisk, ISPConfig, Terraform, AWS Fargate, GitHub, AWS IAM, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Languages

PHP, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Java, Bash, Python, Python 3

Frameworks

Laravel, PHP MVC, PHPUnit, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Zend Framework, Bootstrap, Express.js, Jest, AWS HA

Paradigms

DevOps, Web Design Patterns, Web Architecture, Automation, Agile, Automated Testing, Test Automation, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), Kanban, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Scrum, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Platforms

MacOS, Linux, WordPress, LAMP, LEMP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Debian, WooCommerce, AWS IoT, Magento, MODx, New Relic, Joomla, WHMCS, CentOS, cPanel, Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS NLB, AWS ALB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Storage

SQL Injection Protection, JSON, XML Parsing, Databases, MySQL, Redis, MariaDB, Sphinx Search Engine, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Other

Web Hosting, High-load, Cloudflare, XSS Protection, Full-stack, API Integration, Back-end, Engineering, APIs, Web App UX, Web Development, Web Security, Data Scraping, Web Scraping, Document Parsing, Algorithms, API Design, Performance Optimization, WebSockets, Security, SaaS, Relational Database Services (RDS), IT Project Management, Mobile Apps, CI/CD Pipelines, OOP Designs, Failover Solutions, Load Balancers, Business to Business (B2B), DNS, Ajax, Organic SEO, Cordova, People Management, eCommerce, Caching, Intercom, Front-end, Front-end Development, Architecture, Leadership, CTO, Technical Leadership, Laravel Forge, Large Language Models (LLMs), Software Architecture, Real-time Data, DirectAdmin, Parsers, Hardware, AWS ECS Fargate, Concurrency, Scalability, Joi, OpenAI, Chatbots, AI Agents, FastAPI, Agentic AI, AI Assistants, Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Gemini API, Vector Databases, LangChain, AWS VPN, AWS WAF, AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS CodePipeline, Scrum Coaching, Scrum Master, AWS DevOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Amazon Route 53, Cloud Computing, AWS Transit Gateway, Cloud Security, AWS Cloud Security, Amazon RDS, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), AWS Auto Scaling

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