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Andrey Izotov, Ruby Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States
Andrey Izotov

Ruby Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States

Member since August 21, 2018
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Andrey Izotov, Ruby Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States
Andrey Izotov

Ruby Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States

Member since August 21, 2018
Andrey is a full-stack developer and development lead. He specializes in delivering optimized solutions built with React and Ruby on Rails. Zealous about TDD, he enjoys delivering maintainable systems with high-test coverage. He produces reliable results, whether leading a team or working independently. Passionate about designing software systems, Andrey can deliver a solution to satisfy your technical needs.
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Portfolio

Experience

  • Object-oriented Programming (OOP), 10 years
  • SQL, 7 years
  • Ruby on Rails (RoR), 6 years
  • JavaScript, 6 years
  • Test-driven Development (TDD), 6 years
  • RabbitMQ, 5 years
  • AngularJS, 2 years
  • React, 1 year
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

VS Code, OS X, GitHub, Docker

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is an optimization for an eCommerce checkout flow that increased customer conversion by 10%.

Employment

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - 2018
    Aspiration Partners, LLC
    • Designed and delivered an SOA system for financial account opening and management.
    • Implemented a solution for the processing and storage of PII and other sensitive data.
    • Increased the account security by building a 2FA solution.
    • Mitigated the amount of fraud by setting up a system for identity verification.
    • Built a mechanism for migrating users from one banking partner to another.
    • Optimized the performance via algorithms and query tuning; in one case, reducing the job execution time from eight hours to under one second.
    • Proactively identified and communicated risks to management; created plans to mitigate risk in each of the projects.
    • Managed the application deployment and post-deployment verification.
    • Delivered improvements to internal admin portal built on React and Node.js.
    • Implemented a system for ingesting files from a banking partner using Python.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Vault, GraphQL

  • Tech Lead

    2014 - 2016
    The Honest Company, Inc.
    • Increased the customer conversion rate by 10% by optimizing the performance and UX of a web-based checkout flow.
    • Enhanced an order management system with the capability to fulfill an order from multiple distribution centers.
    • Built and A/B tested experimental features on top of an existing platform.
    • Managed a cross-functional team of eight developers.
    • Ensured the application performance by monitoring the system and delivering optimization patches.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Optimizely, MongoDB, CoffeeScript

  • Software Engineer

    2013 - 2014
    Fiksu, Inc.
    • Developed a customer-facing web portal for the management of advertising campaigns.
    • Crafted APIs and interactive data visualizations.
    • Designed and delivered rapid prototypes of web GUIs.
    • Expanded the functionality and improved the performance of administrative tools.
    • Wrote and executed database migrations.
    • Improved API performance via database query tuning.
    • Integrated a web portal with Stripe.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Highcharts, MySQL

Experience

  • Account Opening and Management System Implementation (Development)

    I designed and delivered an SOA system for opening and managing financial accounts. The system was comprised of third-party service integration points, internally-accessible-and-public-facing APIs, and background processing modules.

    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ

  • Two-factor Authentication Implementation (Development)

    I enhanced an application's security by implementing a 2FA solution.

    Technologies: Java, PostgreSQL, Twillio

  • User Migration Implementation (Development)

    I implemented a mechanism for migrating users from one banking partner to another.

    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ

  • Checkout Flow Improvement (Development)

    I improved the checkout flow of an eCommerce application by rebuilding a multi-page Rails-views experience as a single-page application. The resulting performance and UX improvements accounted for a 10% conversion lift.

    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, Optimizely

  • Order Management System Improvement (Development)

    I enhanced an order management system with the capability to fulfill an order from multiple distribution centers.

    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ

  • CellSim (Other amazing things)
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmatbM0gftCvPawO_vajHoLuAbIM_H_36

    Inspired by biological cell behavior, I designed and developed an application for modeling mutations of living tissues. The simulation included cell division, death, mutation, movement, angiogenesis, metastasis, inter-cell signaling, and elimination of severely mutated (cancer) cells.

    Technologies: C#, XNA, WPF, Dynamic Data Display

  • Secret Storage Implementation (Development)

    I enhanced a software system with a secure secret storage and dynamic credential provisioning mechanism via a Vault integration.

    Technologies: Ruby, Java, Vault

Skills

  • Languages

    JavaScript, Ruby, HTML5, CSS, SQL, CoffeeScript, GraphQL, Python

  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails (RoR), AngularJS

  • Libraries/APIs

    jQuery, React, Stripe, D3.js, Node.js

  • Tools

    Git, CircleCI, Vault, RabbitMQ

  • Paradigms

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

  • Storage

    PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Datadog

  • Platforms

    New Relic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rancher, Docker

Education

  • Bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) in Computer Science
    2009 - 2013
    University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA, USA
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