Andrii Kostenko, Developer in Helsinki, Finland

Andrii Kostenko

Software Developer

Location
Helsinki, Finland
Toptal Member Since
June 17, 2013

Andrii is an accomplished software engineer experienced in creating large-scale, complex applications. He has worked both as a back-end and front-end engineer. He excels at planning and implementing intricate solutions to technical problems, including determining which technologies should be used.

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Portfolio

HealthJoy
AngularJS, RQ, Flask, Python
Visamap
GeoDjango, Python
Skiliks
Backbone.js, JavaScript, Yii, PHP

Location

Helsinki, Finland

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vim Text Editor, MacOS, Git, PyCharm

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is an online commenting engine that handles millions of visitors per day.

Work Experience

2014 - 2016

Software Engineer

HealthJoy
  • Gained knowledge of the American health insurance system.
  • Contributed to the composition of up to 70% of the project's test coverage.
  • Tried several XMPP solutions and created a high-load solution with ejabberd.
  • Wrote a Cron-like daemon for RQ.
  • Collaborated with team members in an Agile/Scrum environment, which increased productivity.
  • Improved ability to communicate with clients in English.
  • Created docker-based development environment, which allows new and current developers quickly setup required project infrastructure.
Technologies: AngularJS, RQ, Flask, Python
2010 - 2014

Entepreneur

Visamap
  • Created a custom world map using MapServer.
  • Created a number of fetchers from different sources.
Technologies: GeoDjango, Python
2013 - 2013

CTO

Skiliks
  • Converted a prototype with write-only code to a production-ready project, including working architecture and unit-tests (PHPUnit and Buster.JS)
  • Switched development to a Scrum-like process.
  • Founded a team of qualified software/QA engineers in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  • Replaced buggy code (built over two month of development) with a remote API of existing services.
  • Refactored and rewrote numerous project parts.
  • Covered code with JS/PHPUnit tests (over 180 tests created).
  • Administrated development/production servers.
Technologies: Backbone.js, JavaScript, Yii, PHP
2012 - 2013

Software Engineer

Mybook
  • Chose the programming language and technology package for the company (Python/Django 1.4/Celery).
  • Created a CI environment with 1100 passing tests (tests were mostly for used applications)
  • Used a variety of public modules instead of writing redundant code, patching them if needed.
  • Created a large project with an efficient, clean code structure.
  • Created numerous bugreports in Django bugtracker with patches.
  • Developed a public API with Django Tastypie.
  • Improved Django Coffin so that it worked as a transparent template loader.
Technologies: Jinja, Celery, Django, Python
2011 - 2011

Software Engineer

Kinohod
  • Refactored a complex body of code, making it more supportable.
  • Created a cell phone website version of the code using jQuery Mobile.
Technologies: jQuery Mobile, Catalyst, Perl
2009 - 2011

Software Engineer

Rambler-Afisha Internet Holding
  • Developed highly-scalable internet applications
  • Optimized a database for high load processing.
  • Refactored a service handling over 10 million requests per day.
  • Improved the libpurple library to support a large number of accounts.
  • Improved the speed and code quality of existing code.
Technologies: PHP, PL/pgSQL, Node.js, C++, Catalyst, Perl
2007 - 2009

Software Engineer

Privatbank
  • Created a peer-to-peer money transfer application.
  • Developed a service to take 25 web site screenshots per second.
  • Created a sandbox for using compilers with online IDEs.
  • Used a partial MySQL master-master replication to create two interfaces: one was public with public data and one was private in a bank network with private data.
  • Created a complex administrator panel for payment transaction monitoring.
Technologies: C#, Lua, Perl

Experience

Visamap

An online visa requirement database.

MyBook Online Library

http://mybook.ru/
This is my most interesting and successful project. It includes highly readable code, test coverage, and effective technologies.

Walk2web

A project that creates a tree from incoming and outgoing links.

Kinohod

http://kinohod.ru
A Russian ticket selling company.

Credit Card Number Generator

A simple valid credit card generator on GAE.

Skiliks

An online management assessment tool.

Healthjoy

http://healthjoy.com
Concierge service for US health insurance

Skills

Languages

Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, PL/pgSQL, Lua, C#, CSS3, HTML5, PHP, C++, C

Frameworks

Django, Flask, Catalyst, Jinja, GeoDjango, AngularJS, Yii

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, PostGIS, Kyoto Tycoon

Libraries/APIs

SQLAlchemy, Python-rq, jQuery Mobile, RQ, React, Node.js, DBIx::Class, jQuery, Backbone.js

Tools

Vim Text Editor, NGINX, Git, PyCharm, Ansible, Sequelize, Chef, Celery, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Zsh

Paradigms

Test Automation, Scrum, Agile Software Development, Test-driven Development (TDD)

Platforms

Docker, Linux, FreeBSD, Amazon EC2, MacOS

Other

XMPP, OAuth

Education

2006 - 2008

Partially Completed Degree in Appiled Mathematics

Dnipropetrovsk National University - Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

2004 - 2006

Graduate Degree in Software Engineering

IT Academy "Step" - Dnipropetrovsk