Aleksandr Makeyev

Novosibirsk / Ekaterinburg, Russia

Member since December 22, 2014

Alexander carries multiple technical degrees in Nuclear Physics and worked at CERN as a Python developer implementing dynamic performance optimizations for complex web applications. He excels at rapidly integrating reliable web technologies and achieving flexible software architecture designs. His strong theoretical and practical background in IT, business consulting, and project management makes him extremely capable on projects of any size.

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Portfolio

Toptal
Python, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Heroku, AWS
Elksimo Inc.
Linux, Nginx, supervisord, Sentry, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Django...
ASIA Consulting Group, Inc.
Python, Django, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Google App Engine, AWS...

Experience

HTML, 13 years
CSS, 12 years
SQL, 10 years
JavaScript, 9 years
AJAX, 8 years
Python, 8 years
Model driven development, 7 years
UML, 7 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux/Mac OS, JetBrains (PyCharm), Git

The most amazing...

...full-stack project I've developed is an online website constructor involving 5 different programming languages and integrating more than 20 modern technologies.

Employment

Full-stack Web Developer
Toptal
2014 - PRESENT
- Created a web-based CRM for health insurance agents across the USA, with automated email notifications, status tracking, and specialized tools like template insurance offering.
- Created a web search for Health Insurance plans based on US government insurance plans databases. The search included flexible filtering and adaptive cost estimation (age, smoking factor, annual income, family members, and automatically calculated subsidy).
- Created an editor for online courses, enabling education resources to be created with embedded videos, illustration images, formatted texts, and formulas.
- Created an online portal for educational courses with flexible course access management (grouped access lists with tagged resource linkage). Also the portal provides an environment for watching courses and tracking progress.
- Developed a fingerprint indexing and detection engine based on minutia points detection.
- Stood up an online fingerprint database with the capability to add new fingerprint images and search by fingerprint image.
Technologies: Python, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Heroku, AWS
Web Developer, Project Manager
Elksimo Inc.
2013 - 2014
- Created complete project infrastructure for development, testing, deployment, and bug/issue tracking.
- Developed a delegated programming pipeline.
- Created Web service for online landing page construction and hosting.
- Created a Web service for finding a location for a wedding.
- Created 17 landing pages with pixel--perfect HTML & CSS and split-testing back-end.
Technologies: Linux, Nginx, supervisord, Sentry, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Django, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Handlebars.js, Raven.js, REST, HTML, CSS, git, gitolite, SSH, Google Analytics
Senior Web Developer, R&D Department Manager
ASIA Consulting Group, Inc.
2011 - 2014
- Created Web service software that provides e-polls for companies (estimating staff involvement ratio, discovering organization strengths and weaknesses, etc.).
- Created an application for automated poll form recognition using image processing.
- Gained experience in managing teams with diversely specialized members (IT-specialists, designers, testers, business consultants and clients).
- Gained experience in resource estimation, project planning and time management.
Technologies: Python, Django, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Google App Engine, AWS, Amazon SES, Amazon Route 53, Amazon EC2, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap.js
Teacher of IT and Computer Science
Novosibirsk State University
2009 - 2014
- Created education methodic. Created lectures for fast key aspects understanding. Structured programming knowledge.
- Approved communication and presentation skills. Learned to transfer thoughts and ideas to students.
- Learned mentoring and 1-to-1 education process.
- Trained students to be best at programming, by results of final exams.
- Got 5 students for scientific advisory (~2 students per year) as a result of good training methodology acceptance.
Technologies: C, C++, Java, OOP, OOA&D, UML, Git, Network Programming, Parallel Programming
Junior Scientist and Web Developer
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
2008 - 2014
- Created a complex, graph-based configuration database and UI for managing hardware and software settings on physical facilities.
- Created utilities and plugins for hardware accessing and data processing.
- Gained experience in scientific writing and presenting. Posted articles to scientific journals and presented work results on conferences.
- Gained experience in role delegation and project management by being a scientific adviser of approximately two students per year.
Technologies: Linux, C, C++, Qt, GCC, MinGW, Python, PyQt, SQLite, PostgreSQL, NetworkX, Django, JavaScript, JQuery, d3.js, Node.js, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ
Senior Web Developer
Netive Software, Ltd.
2008 - 2010
- Developed modules for Claromentis Intranet Web Application (outsourcing for Great Britain).
- Supported and maintained older modules of Claromentis.
- Progressed from ordinary team member to Team Lead.
- Developed clean, well-designed Object-Oriented Programming on PHP.
- Worked in a team with developers and testers.
Technologies: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, nginx, Apache, SVN
Python Developer
CERN
2009 - 2009
- Created Oracle connections pool with dynamic performance optimisation for Python web application.
- Learned advanced Python programing.
- Created deep unit tests with high code coverage involving black box and white box testing methodologies.
- Created user and API documentation.
- Worked in multilingual teams, participated in regular meetings and planning.
Technologies: Python, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, Resource pooling
Software Developer
Institute of Automation and Electrometry
2005 - 2008
- Created a program for line segment recognition in a noisy, interlaced video stream.
- Created software for visually constructing and processing graphs using a set of implemented image-processing algorithms.
- Implemented 20+ mathematical image processing algorithms.
- Gained experience in analyzing algorithms documentation and using it as instructions for implementation.
- Gained experience in working with scientific software in a team setting.
Technologies: C, C++, C#, .Net, Java, Intel OpenCV, Microsoft DirectX, OpenGL, Pixel Shaders Programming, Vertex Shaders Programming
System Administrator
SibTechnoSoft, Ltd.
1999 - 2008
- Supported Web servers based on Perl, PHP and Apache.
- Created a virtual private network (VPN).
- Configured 100+ PC hardware units, operating systems, drivers, and software settings.
- Optimized PC machine performance.
- Supported client PC machines through phone calls and personal visits.
Technologies: VPN, PPPoE, Windows Server, FTP, HTTP, CGI, Perl, PHP, Apache, HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Experience

Web service for finding a wedding location (Development)
http://expert-banket.ru
I implemented the full-stack architecture for this wedding-locator service. Technologies used in development were:
Server-side: Nginx, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Python, Django, Python Imaging Library (PIL/PILLOW)
Client-side: JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Handlebars, HTML, CSS
Web service for construction and hosting of online landing pages (Development)
http://leadmagnit.ru
I implemented the full-stack architecture for this service. Technologies used for development were:
Server-side: Nginx, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Python, Django, Python Imaging Library (PIL/PILLOW), node.js, grunt.js, Handlebars Precompiler, PHP
Client-side: JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Handlebars, HTML, CSS
Designed fifteen high-quality landing pages (Development)
http://portfolio.pub.elksimo.com
Designed and implemented full stack architecture for these fifteen landing pages (pixel-perfect HTML+CSS was implemented by another person). Technologies used for development were:
Server-side: Nginx, Node.js, Grunt.js, Handlebars Precompiler, PHP
Client-side: JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Handlebars, HTML, CSS
Health Insurance plans web search (Development)
Based on parsed US government insurance plans databases. With a flexible filtering and adaptive cost estimation (including age, smoking factor, annual income, family members and automatically calculated subsidy).
On-line courses portal with editor (Development)
Course editor allows to construct education steps with embedded videos, illustration images, formatted texts and formulas.

Courses portal includes flexible courses access management (grouped access lists with tagged resources linkage) and running courses, tracking the progress.
Fingerprint on-line database with indexing and detection engine (Development)
Detection engine is based on minutia points detection. Web-UI allows to add new fingerprints and search entire database by fingerprint image/
Web CRM for health insurance agents over the USA (Development)
Automated email notifications, status tracking, and specialized tools like template insurance offering.

Skills

Languages
CSS3, T-SQL, ECMAScript, CSS, HTML, XML/XSLT, C, XML, UML, C++, Python, SQL, XSLT, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, GraphQL, SCSS, EcmaScript 2015 (ES6), LessCSS, Delphi, Pascal, C#, F#, JADE, BASIC, Visual Basic, Java
Frameworks
Django, JavaScript Core, Express.js, AJAX.OOP, web2py, Bootstrap 3+, Bootstrap, Responsive Frameworks, Django 1.6, Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 2, Django REST Framework, React Native, Message UI, Zend Framework, AngularJS, Angular 2, Flask, .NET, GraphLab, Silverlight
Libraries/APIs
JSON API, Redis Queue, Amazon IAM, jQuery CDN, MailChimp API, WebSockets, Sockets, Social Media APIs, Mustache, Backbone.js, Backbone.Marionette, Node.js, PiLLoW, PyMongo, Python Imaging Library, jQuery, Amazon SQS, D3.js, Socket.IO, jQuery UI, Handlebars, NumPy, REST API, AMQP, OpenCV, Back-end APIs, Django ORM, SciPy, OpenSSL, Google API, Google Calendar API, Google Maps API, React.js, PyQt4, PyQt, GitHub API, DirectX
Tools
Front-end Build Tools, Gimp, Scikit-image, Mongoose, Slack, Amazon SES, Boto, GitLab, AWS SQS, AWS SES, RabbitMQ, Git, Nginx, SQLiteManager, uWSGI, GitHub, MailChimp, Message Broker, Amazon SNS, Bitbucket, Trello, jQuery Plugins, PyCharm, Grunt, Docker Compose, Postman, Bitbucket Deploy, lighttpd, Beanstalk, Adobe Photoshop, Apache, Eclipse, Google Analytics, Amazon VPC, Amazon EBS
Paradigms
Cross-browser JavaScript, Model driven development, REST, Data-driven Programming, Responsive Development, Scrum, Prototype-based OOP, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Deployment, Back-end Architecture, Scalable Application, Agile, Agile Product Management, Agile UX, Web Application Architecture, Microservices, Rijndael, Design Patterns, Responsive, Responsive Layout, Rapid Prototyping, Web App Design, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Concurrent Programming, Hosting, DevOps, Test-driven Development (TDD), Waterfall development, State Pattern, Responsive Design, Agile Software Development
Platforms
AWS EC2, Amazon Linux, Heroku, Docker, Linux, Debian Linux, Mac OS, Debian, Web, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Windows, Elastic Beanstalk, LAMP, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Django CMS
Storage
MongoLab, SQLite, MySQL, Cloud Hosting, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, NoSQL, MongoDB, Redis, TSQL, JSON, JsonPath, Database Security, Neo4j, Apache HTTP Server (HTTPD), Cloud, MS SQL
Misc
Scraping, Network Programming, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Cryptography, AJAX, Front-end, Prototyping, RPC, XML RPC, JSON-RPC, Pattern design, Pattern recognition, Pattern matching, JSONP, Visualization, Data Visualization, LocalStorage, Cookies, Social Media Login, CSV, CSV File Processing, Data Processing, Signal Processing, Text Processing, Computer Science, Bootstrapping, 3DES, DES, AES, EMCAScript 5 (ES5), ES, Graphs, GraphDB, Bootstrap UI, UDP, TCP/IP, TCP, HTML5 WebSockets, Web Sockets, Message Queues, Messaging, Surveys, JavaScript Testing, Heroku Deployment, ORM for Node.js, MEAN Stack, MEAN, AWS ECS, Networks, Amazon Route 53, DNS, SparkPost, Gitolite, Mobile First, Image Processing, FontAwesome, Full-stack Development, Full-stack, Data Scraping, 2D Image Processing, Scalability, Web Scraping, Scalable Applications, Web Scalability, AWS ELB, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Web Back-end, Back-end Development, Back-end Performance, Development, UI Development, Web Development, Web Apps, Web App Deployment, Back-end, Web Front-end, Responsive Web, Responsive Web Apps, Front-end Performance Optimization, Front-end Web Development, Front-end Architecture, SSH, SSL Configurations, Linux Mint, SSL certificates, GNU, SSL, Public-key cryptography, Web Hosting, Domains & Hosting, Web API Self Hosting, Survey Programming, Game Development, Video Processing, GRAPH, Computer Vision, Color Science, Behavioral Science, Security, AWS DevOps, Web App Security, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Computer Security, Amazon Beanstalk, HTTP, Clustering, Scientific Computing, IPv6, IoT, Internet of Things (IoT), Front-end Design

Education

Postgraduate degree in Measurement Methods and Technical Equipment for Physical Experiments
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
2008 - 2012
Master's degree in Physical and Technical Information Technologies
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
2008 - 2010
Bachelor's of Science degree in Automation of Physical and Technical Researches
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
2004 - 2008

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