Alexey is available for hire

Alexey Filatov

Verified Expert in Engineering

APIs Developer

Location

Choeng Thale Phuket, Thailand

Toptal Member Since

June 20, 2016

Alexey is an experienced full-stack developer with extensive knowledge of OOP and design patterns. He specializes in creating complex web services using modern tech stacks like Node.js and PHP/Laravel. He has over nine years of experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science and certifications in PHP and MySQL from Zend and Oracle, respectively.

Back-end Development Software Engineering Full-stack Integration Web Crawlers PHP MySQL JSON REST APIs PHP 7 Laravel Test-driven Development (TDD)Node.js Express.js Front-end

Portfolio

Getrally.com

Vanilla JS, Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Amazon ElastiCache...

M.io

Vanilla JS, Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Amazon ElastiCache...

Message.io, Inc. (via Toptal)

Vanilla JS, Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Amazon ElastiCache...

Experience

PHP - 9 years Object-oriented Programming (OOP) - 9 years MySQL - 9 years REST - 7 years APIs - 7 years Laravel - 4 years Node.js - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ngrok, CircleCI, Bitbucket, PhpStorm, Jenkins, Bash

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is M.io, an application that lets users send messages across chat platforms—for example, from Slack to Microsoft Teams.

Work Experience

API Developer

2020 - PRESENT

Getrally.com

Developed a Slack bot for the app. It allows creating, updating, deleting, and searching for metrics from the main application. It uses almost all available Slack features: slash commands, events, scheduled messages, and interactive components.
Developed integrations with other third-party services including Jira, Salesforce, Asana, Zendesk, Tableau, Baremetrics, Google docs, and Google calendar. These integrations mostly consist of CRUD operations with oAuth and some advanced searching.
Implemented AWS architecture for all integrations and chose a particular tech stack. Maintained and supported all services on a daily basis as a single DevOps engineer.

Technologies: Vanilla JS, Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Amazon ElastiCache, Continuous Integration (CI), JSON API, NGINX, FontAwesome, CircleCI, Bitbucket, Server Administration, PhpStorm, REST, JSON, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), API Applications, APIs, API Integration, Linux Server Administration, AWS Lambda, Linux, Serverless, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, Agile Software Development, Git, NoSQL, JavaScript, Express.js, REST APIs, Full-stack, Bubble, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Node.js

Software Engineer

2017 - PRESENT

M.io

Worked on an app that sends messages across three chat platforms: Slack, Webex Teams, and Microsoft Teams.
Implemented messages and files receiving logic using webhooks and events subscription.
Implemented messages and files sending logic using platform API calls.
Implemented an asynchronous long-polling service for receiving chat events using ReactPHP. Made it multi-threaded using various concurrent and parallel programming techniques.
Helped front-end developers with Vue.js apps and other JS + HTML + CSS tasks.
Implemented app analytics, designed a lot of complex database queries, and performed optimization and caching.

Technologies: Vanilla JS, Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Amazon ElastiCache, ReactPHP, Ngrok, SCSS, Continuous Integration (CI), HTML, JSON API, NGINX, Payment APIs, WebSockets, FontAwesome, Bitbucket, Front-end Development, Server Administration, PhpStorm, REST, JSON, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Scraping, API Applications, APIs, API Integration, Jenkins, Bash, Linux Server Administration, Stripe, HTML5, Linux, Apache, Redis, Agile Software Development, Git, Scrum, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, Front-end, Test-driven Development (TDD), PHP 7, REST APIs, MySQL, PHP, Web Crawlers, Full-stack, Node.js, Vue, Laravel

Software Engineer

2016 - 2017

Message.io, Inc. (via Toptal)

Worked on an app that translates chatbots across various platforms, including Slack, Webex Teams, Microsoft Teams, WeChat, Line, Kik, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and Hipchat.
Implemented a Slack client for Gmail (all emails are posted to a specific Slack channel).
Implemented and maintained several chatbots for the app.
Helped front-end developers fetch, send, and delete data using AngularJS.
Built a lot of functional and unit tests using Codeception.

Technologies: Vanilla JS, Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Amazon ElastiCache, ReactPHP, Ngrok, SCSS, Continuous Integration (CI), HTML, JSON API, NGINX, WebSockets, FontAwesome, Bitbucket, Front-end Development, Server Administration, PhpStorm, REST, JSON, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Scraping, API Applications, APIs, API Integration, Jenkins, Bash, Linux Server Administration, Facebook API, MongoDB, HTML5, Linux, Apache, Gmail, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Agile Software Development, Git, NoSQL, Scrum, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SQL, Front-end, PHP 7, REST APIs, MySQL, PHP, Web Crawlers, Full-stack, Node.js, AngularJS, Laravel

Lead PHP Developer

2014 - 2015

Artwell

Created over 20 websites and enterprise portals for Russian government organizations.
Worked within very tight deadlines typical of government projects (e.g., opmo.mosreg.ru, created from scratch over a weekend).
Managed and taught junior developers.

Technologies: Software Engineering, Back-end Development, HTML, JSON API, NGINX, Payment APIs, FontAwesome, eCommerce, Front-end Development, Server Administration, PhpStorm, JSON, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), APIs, API Integration, Bash, Linux Server Administration, Linux, Apache, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SQL, Front-end, MySQL, PHP, Full-stack, Laravel

Back-end Web Developer

2012 - 2013

Nival Network

Created a forum for the game Prime World (en.playpw.com/forum/; 350 000+ users).
Supported and refined a web service for storing data from social networks.
Created a shared authentication system between the website (en.playpw.com), the forum (en.playpw.com/forum/) and the helpdesk (support.en.playpw.com) of the game Prime World.
Created an intelligence system for gathering and processing data from the game Prime World, landing pages, and advertising campaigns of the game. It helped to measure all KPIs and optimize all steps of the buying cycle.
Supported all steps of the release process: administered a continuous integration server (Teamcity), created many build scenarios using Nant, and administered and managed svn repositories (including merge requests, conflict resolution, etc.).

Technologies: Software Engineering, Back-end Development, Continuous Integration (CI), HTML, JSON API, NGINX, Front-end Development, Server Administration, REST, JSON, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), APIs, API Integration, Bash, MongoDB, Linux, Apache, NoSQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SQL, PHP, Full-stack, Django, Python

Full-stack Web Developer

2010 - 2012

Extyl-pro

Created over 30 websites on the LAMP tech stack from scratch.
Supported the official Russian website of Epson (epson.ru) over the course of seven months.
Created a catalog search module with many parameters and complex logic behavior for high-load online store Italbazar.ru.

Technologies: Software Engineering, Back-end Development, HTML, JSON API, NGINX, Payment APIs, eCommerce, Front-end Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), APIs, API Integration, Linux Server Administration, Linux, Apache, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SQL, Front-end, PHP, Full-stack, WordPress

Experience

Official Website of Epson in Russia

http://epson.ru

I maintained and refined it for about seven months, responsible for the proper functioning of every part of the website and new feature implementation. Among other things, I accelerated the catalog more than 2x by optimizing SQL queries.

Italbazar.ru: Online Store for Brand Clothing

http://www.italbazar.ru

For this project, I designed and implemented all functionality with complex logic behavior, including convenient navigation, catalog search, integration with payment systems, and all steps of order processing.

M.io

https://m.io

M.io lets users send messages across chat platforms; for example, from Slack to Microsoft Teams.

Forum and Web Services for Prime World

A high-load (350,000+ users) forum created using PHP, vBulletin, and MySQL. It uses web services for shared authentication and storing data from social networks, built using PHP, Symfony 2, and MongoDB.

Publication

How to be Efficient in PhpStorm: An IDE that Really Matters

https://www.toptal.com/php/how-to-be-efficient-in-phpstorm

Skills

Languages

PHP 7, PHP, SQL, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, HTML5, Python, SCSS, HTML

Frameworks

Express.js, Laravel, Bootstrap, Vanilla JS, Django, AngularJS

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Node.js, jQuery, Vue, Stripe, Facebook API, ReactPHP, React, JSON API

Tools

PhpStorm, CircleCI, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ngrok, Amazon ElastiCache, Bubble, Apache, NGINX, GitHub

Paradigms

REST, Test-driven Development (TDD), Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Scrum, Continuous Integration (CI)

Storage

MySQL, JSON, Amazon DynamoDB, NoSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, MongoDB

Other

API Integration, Integration, API Applications, Scraping, Web Crawlers, Back-end Development, Software Engineering, APIs, Full-stack, Server Administration, Front-end Development, eCommerce, Front-end, Gmail, FontAwesome, Serverless, WebSockets, Linux Server Administration, Payment APIs, Software Architecture

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Linux, WordPress

Education

2015 - 2019

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics - Moscow

Certifications

FEBRUARY 2022 - FEBRUARY 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

JULY 2019 - PRESENT

MicroMasters in Software Development

edX

JUNE 2015 - PRESENT

Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.6 Developer

Oracle Corporation

FEBRUARY 2015 - PRESENT

Zend Certified PHP Engineer

Zend Technologies