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Anton Vovchenko

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Toptal member since April 17, 2022

Expertise

REST API Cloud Engineering Node.js Firebase Google App Engine AWS PostgreSQL Jira JavaScript PHP

Bio

After graduation, with already two years of web development experience, Anton founded a web agency with a partner. He was in charge of the tech side of the business. Thirteen years later, he left his agency to lead an engineering team at a US-based startup. Always on the lookout for challenging opportunities, Anton is eager to lead or work as a senior engineer in highly-skilled teams.

Portfolio

Zipi Inc

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Cloud Spanner, Google App Engine, Node.js...

Valant

Amazon Web Services (AWS), JavaScript, Node.js, Angular...

Experience

JavaScript - 7 years
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 6 years
REST - 6 years
Angular - 5 years
Node.js - 5 years
Google App Engine - 4 years
Firebase - 4 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Node.js, Angular, Firebase, Plaid

The most amazing...

...thing I've worked on was KnowGas, a monitoring portal for the IoT modules on modal gas racks.

Work Experience

Engineering Lead

2017 - PRESENT

Zipi Inc

Headed the engineering team that included developers, DevOps, and quality assurance professionals.
Designed, architectured, and coded the most critical and complex parts of the system.
Established integration with vendors like Plaid, Dwolla, Authorize.Net, SendGrid, and a few others.

Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Cloud Spanner, Google App Engine, Node.js, Pub/Sub, Jira, REST, Apigee, Elasticsearch, Firebase Authentication, REST APIs

Tech Lead

2007 - 2020

Valant

Oversaw the tech side of the business for a small web development agency, which included choosing technologies, performing technical pre-sales, and interviewing developers.
Spearheaded the essential projects working with five to ten engineers, supported developers, and communicated with client representatives.
Performed hands-on coding, system architecting, and database management.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), JavaScript, Node.js, Angular, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PHP, PostgreSQL, REST, REST APIs

Experience

KnowGas

KnowGas is a monitoring portal for the IoT modules on modal gas racks. External engineers developed firmware for embedded sensors, and we focused only on web applications hosted in the cloud. I performed front-end and back-end coding and led a team of three developers.

Education

2002 - 2007

Master's Degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics

National University of Radio Electronics - Kharkiv, Ukraine

Certifications

NOVEMBER 2018 - NOVEMBER 2020

Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, REST APIs, Apigee

Tools

Firebase Authentication, Plaid, Jira, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Frameworks

Angular

Paradigms

REST

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Firebase, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Storage

Google Cloud Storage, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Spanner, Elasticsearch, MongoDB

Languages

JavaScript, PHP

Other

Programming, Pub/Sub, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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