Apti Umayev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Apti is a professional web developer with 6+ years of PHP experience, varying from the creation of single-page applications using REST/Ajax to complex eCommerce and entertainment projects using SQL or NoSQL on the back end. He is a flexible and highly adaptable developer who thrives on the exciting unpredictabilities of freelance work.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Vim Text Editor, Sublime Text, PhpStorm
The most amazing...
...thing I've made is a lens shader in Three.js: it took me around two weeks to implement it.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
VestiaireCollective
- Developed and supported several core microservices/tools in go language.
- Reviewed and tested code daily.
- Worked in agile.
Web Developer
Quiet Notion USA, LLC (via Toptal)
- Fixed several bugs, including critical.
- Integrated a new Stripe API.
- Automated MySQL backups.
- Automated decreasing of storage usage with Amazon S3.
Senior Back-end Developer
EvobitsIT Technology, SRL (via Toptal)
- Developed several MVC applications using both PHP/Go and TDD approach. This included critical payment/processing system development, with special attention to application security and integrity.
- Created functional tests.
- Set up and configured Bamboo CI for deploying web applications.
- Worked with complex SQL queries for both reading and writing financial data, including trigger/procedure usage.
- Wrote API documentation and several internal tutorials.
Web Developer
Kolesa, LLC
- Implemented a complaints management dashboard.
- Modified the critical paid services part of m.krisha.kz for a more intuitive user experience.
- Supported/refactored a sales statistics microservice written in Golang.
- Created a Bamboo build task for Golang projects resulting in plug-n-play deb packages.
- Held daily code reviews and created functional tests.
Web Developer
RocketFirm
- Created a reusable Instagram/Twitter/FB scraping module for Yii 2.
- Developed a REST API for a music charts site.
- Created a small Node.js application for dynamically reading IceCast meta information on artist/track names.
- Wrote an online quiz application with user prizes using Backbone.js for the front end.
- Refactored an old eCommerce project, optimizing daily price updates for 50,000 products (decreasing half-hour update time to 5-7 minutes).
Web Developer
Redprice, LLC
- Implemented a product filter/search using Solr on the Chocomart.kz main page (search while typing).
- Developed several back-end dashboards for managers and administrators, including Ajax UI for productive problem management.
- Built instant order notifications for sales managers using websockets.
- Created a highly modifiable tree menu.
- Developed an SEO-friendly URL subsystem.
Skills
Languages
PHP, Go, JavaScript, HTML5, Bash, HTML, CSS3, CSS
Frameworks
Laravel, Yii 2, PhalconPHP, CodeIgniter, gRPC, Codeception, Bootstrap, Twig
Tools
GoLand, Jira, GitLab, Git, PHP-FPM, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, Vim Text Editor, Apache Solr, Stash, Bamboo, NGINX, Solr
Paradigms
REST
Platforms
Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), FreeBSD, Kubernetes
Storage
PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, Memcached
Other
Containerization, Prometheus, Ajax
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Stripe, Backbone.js, Mustache
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Kazakh National University - Almaty
Certifications
Software Security
University of Maryland, College Park
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