Alexander Makeev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Python Developer
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 rapidly integrates reliable web technologies and achieves flexible software architecture designs. His strong theoretical and practical background in IT, business consulting, and project management make him extremely capable of projects of any size.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), NoSQL, Bash Script, Node.js, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Git, WebStorm, Debian, MacOS
The most amazing...
...full-stack project I've developed is an online website constructor. I used five different programming languages and integrated more than 20 modern technologies.
Work Experience
Full-stack Web Developer
Toptal Clients
- 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, and family members).
- Built 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.
- Developed a platform for online quizzes and polls. Multiple quizzes managed to run and the flexible architecture allowed custom quizzes logic with conditional branching and report evaluation.
- Designed and developed a blocks-based CMS for the online quizzes and polls' platform. Supported custom per-site blocks.
- Provided inter-site integration of the online quizzes and polls' platform, applied to multiple polls. Released Google Analytics metrics events and implemented routing to the container site.
Web Developer, Project Manager
Elksimo, Inc.
- Created a complete project infrastructure for development, testing, deployment, and bug/issue tracking.
- Developed a delegated programming pipeline.
- Created a web service for online landing page construction and hosting.
- Created a web service for finding a location for a wedding.
- Built 17 landing pages with pixel-perfect HTML and CSS and a split-testing back end.
Senior Web Developer, R&D Department Manager
ASIA Consulting Group, Inc.
- Created a web service software that provides e-polls for companies, by estimating staff involvement ratio, discovering organization strengths and weaknesses, and more.
- 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.
Teacher of IT and Computer Science
Novosibirsk State University
- Created an educational methodology with lectures for fast key aspects' understanding and structured programming knowledge.
- Approved communication and presentation skills. Learned to transfer thoughts and ideas to students.
- Learned about mentoring and the 1-to-1 education process.
- Trained students to be the best at programming, knowledge proved by the results on final exams.
- Advised five students (~2 students per year) in scientific projects as a result of the good training methodology acceptance.
Junior Scientist and Web Developer
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
- 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.
Senior Web Developer
Netive Software, Ltd.
- Developed modules for Claromentis Intranet Web Application (outsourcing for a Great Britain company).
- Supported and maintained older modules of Claromentis.
- Progressed from an ordinary team member to team lead.
- Developed clean, well-designed object-oriented programming on PHP.
- Worked in a team of seven with developers and testers.
Python Developer
CERN
- Created an Oracle connections pool with dynamic performance optimization for a Python web application.
- Learned advanced Python programming.
- 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.
Software Developer
Institute of Automation and Electrometry
- 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.
System Administrator
SibTechnoSoft, Ltd.
- 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.
Experience
Web Service for Finding a Wedding Location
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.
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
High Quality Landing Pages
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
Online Course Portal with Editor
The courses' portal includes flexible course access management (grouped access lists with tagged resources linkage) and running courses, with progress tracking included as well.
Fingerprint Online Database
Web CRM for Health Insurance Agents
Smart JSON Formatter Development Tool
Also, the tool supports simple installation to command line for Debian-based operating systems and macOS; users can use it on any local JSON script output, sending it automatically to a dynamically opened browser tab.
Color Blind Web Page Filter
- Protanopia (red/green color blindness; anomalous red cones)
- Deuteranopia (red/green color blindness; anomalous green cones)
- Tritanopia (blue/yellow color blindness; anomalous blue cones)
- Greyscale/achromatopsia (quick check for all forms of colorblindness)
Sprites Generator Tool
Web Questionnaire as a Decision Support System
The system supports flexible configuration of question lists, answers variants, answer logic, and results' estimation logic, with dynamic report generation on the reason the system gives a certain result.
Consulting Tools for Dynamic Analysis of Geo-stats Data
Database Management Tool for Huge Items Storage
Quizzes Builder
Performance-optimized CMS
Skills
Languages
ES5, ECMAScript (ES6), C, C++, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSLT, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), XSLT, HTML, Python, UML, XML, Less, SCSS, GraphQL, PHP, Perl, Bash Script, ES7, Solidity, F#, C#, Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, BASIC, JADE, Java
Frameworks
Vue SSR, Bootstrap, Responsive Frameworks, Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 2, Bootstrap 3+, AJAX.OOP, Express.js, JavaScriptCore, Django, Django REST Framework, Web2py, React Native, Message UI, Flask, Angular, AngularJS, Zend Framework, Qt, GraphLab, .NET
Libraries/APIs
Vuex, Vue Material, Vue, Web API, JSON-RPC, JSONP, LocalStorage, AES, Backbone.js, Redis Queue, jQuery CDN, Sockets, Social Media APIs, Mustache, JSON API, Backbone.Marionette, Django ORM, Socket.IO, PyMongo, REST APIs, NumPy, jQuery Plugins, AMQP, Handlebars, Python Imaging Library, OpenCV, Node.js, PiLLoW, jQuery UI, jQuery, D3.js, OpenSSL, Google API, Google Calendar API, Google Maps API, React, SciPy, PyQt 4, PyQt, NetworkX, ZeroMQ, OpenGL, GitHub API, DirectX
Tools
Vue CLI, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Mailchimp, Trello, Bitbucket, AWS ELB, Front-end Build Tools, Slack, GitLab, Git, GitHub, AWS IAM, JavaScript Testing, MongoLab, Mongoose, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), PyCharm, Grunt, RabbitMQ, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Google Analytics, Boto, Scikit-image, uWSGI, SQLiteManager, NGINX, TokBox, Apache HTTP Server, Docker Compose, Postman, Beanstalk, lighttpd, Adobe Photoshop, Apache, VPN, Subversion (SVN), GCC, MinGW, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Sentry, JetBrains, WebStorm, Graphene, Amazon EBS, Eclipse IDE, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), MS Silverlight
Paradigms
Rapid Prototyping, Web App Design, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Responsive Development, Scrum, Prototype-based OOP, Continuous Deployment, Back-end Architecture, Scalable Application, Agile, Agile Product Management, Agile UX, Web Application Architecture, Microservices, Rijndael, Design Patterns, Responsive, Responsive Layout, Object-relational Mapping (ORM), MEAN Stack, Model-driven Engineering (MDE), REST, Data-driven Programming, App Development, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Hosting, State Pattern, DevOps, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Concurrent Programming, Agile Software Development, Waterfall Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Object-oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD), Parallel Programming, Pair Programming
Platforms
Linux Mint, Amazon, Web, Debian, Amazon Linux, Docker, Heroku, Amazon EC2, Linux, MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Debian Linux, Windows, WordPress, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Django CMS, LAMP, Windows Server, Google App Engine, Oracle, Blockchain, Ethereum
Storage
JSON, XML-RPC, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, Redis, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Database Security, JsonPath, Neo4j, RavenDB, Google Cloud
Other
Technical Consulting, Software Consulting, Technology Consulting, Web Consulting, Consulting, Vue Router, Elastic Load Balancers, Front-end, SparkPost, Gitolite, Mobile First, Image Processing, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Cryptography, FontAwesome, Full-stack, Data Scraping, Scalability, Web Scraping, Scraping, Web Scalability, Performance Optimization, Back-end Development, Back-end Performance, Development, UI Development, Web Development, Web App Deployment, Back-end, SSH, SSL Configurations, SSL Certificates, GNU, SSL, Public-key Cryptography, Web Hosting, Domains & Hosting, Prototyping, RPC, Pattern Design, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Matching, Visualization, Data Visualization, Cookies, Social Media Login, CSV, CSV File Processing, Data Processing, Signal Processing, Text Processing, Computer Science, Bootstrapping, 3DES, DES, Graphs, GraphDB, Mailchimp API, Bootstrap UI, Messaging, Message Queues, WebSockets, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), TCP/IP, UDP, Survey Programming, Surveys, Ajax, Network Programming, DNS, Networks, Software Engineering, Software Development, Freelancing, Programming, Machine Learning, Front-end Development, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Remote Work, Node.js Consulting Specialist, Embedded Software, Apps, PWA, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), Video Processing, GRAPH, Computer Vision, Color Science, Behavioral Science, Security, Web App Security, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Computer Security, IPv6, Internet of Things (IoT), Scientific Computing, Clustering, Game Development, HTTP, FTP, CGI, Pixel, Shaders, Amazon Route 53, Supervisory, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Software Architecture, Team Management, Time Management, Business Process Analysis, Risk Management, Growth Strategy, Business Cases, Software Design
Industry Expertise
Marketing
Education
Additional Education in Computer Science
Intel Winter & Summer Schools - Novosibirsk, Russia
Postgraduate Degree in Measurement Methods and Technical Equipment for Physical Experiments
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
Additional Education in Business Management
School of MBA (SMBA) - Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia
Master's Degree in Physical and Technical Information Technologies
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
Bachelor's of Science Degree in Automation of Physical and Technical Researches
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
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