Artūrs Braučs
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Stopinu nov., Latvia
Toptal member since January 22, 2021
Artūrs is an enthusiastic and detail-oriented full-stack developer with more than 10 years of experience. He has over eight years of experience with Ruby on Rails in the back end and various front-end frameworks and toolkits, including jQuery, Backbone, Angular, React, and Vue.js. Artūrs has worked on a wide range of projects, from small web pages, social networks, and mobile applications to private company systems and big government projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- Git - 10 years
- SQL - 10 years
- JavaScript - 9 years
- Ruby - 8 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 8 years
- PostgreSQL - 5 years
- TypeScript - 3 years
- Vue - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Ruby
The most amazing...
...experience was being a part of the team that created the StopCovid app and developed a system that helped all country hospitals to centralize all resources.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer, Co-owner
Tweetdeleter
- Developed Tweetdeleter from scratch in a few days, and deployed in production. At the moment, the system has 2 million users.
- Developed an efficient system that manages more than 10 million tables and more than 1 million database transactions every day.
- Created an architecture managed by Kubernetes with efficient CI workflow, a system based on Ruby on Rails back end and Vue.js modern SPA application.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Autentica LTD
- Led training for junior software developers and college students and mentored junior software developers.
- Received two "Employee of the year" and three other awards. Was always considered one of the best software developers in the company of 100+ employees.
- Contributed to Covid-19 projects. Developed the back end for ApturiCovid (stop Covid) app, which helps trace contacts with Covid patients. More than 200,000 people use the app.
- Developed, in a small team of two, a system that helps trace all hospital equipment and patient statistics. It is used in all Latvia government hospitals and included in important system register.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Weby LTD
- Led the technical team of 2-3 developers in the company. Was responsible for the recruiting process, mentoring, and technical decisions.
- Created an architecture and CMS system, which helped create more than 15 projects in the year with a small team.
- Involved in many small startup projects with ideas, technical solutions. Developed one of the startups in a few days that grew into a successful service—tweetdeleter.com.
Senior Full-stack Developer, Head of IT
Creative LTD
- Managed 7-person software developer team. Helped the company grow in the direction of teams and projects.
- Introduced Ruby on Rails in the team and created development and deployment environments from scratch. That helped company to developed projects in a more efficient way.
- Led the technical development in a social network project, which was sold in 20 municipalities in Latvia. It was improved and rewrite on ruby on rails and the SPA application framework.
- Helped to develop citizen participation portal, manabalss.lv, which was a breakthrough in the world in electronic voting. It helped to change more than 100 laws in the Latvia government.
Software Developer
Creative.gs
- Developed a web app in five days, which helped get a few thousand clients quickly—a small weight loss application based on PHP.
- Developed, as an architect, a map-based social network web application that helped public participation in municipalities. Based on Java and GWT.
- Helped create and mentor the new team in the company. Was heavily involved in the recruiting process.
Experience
Tweetdeleter.com
https://tweetdeleter.com/Deployment is managed by Kubernetes.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Rigas Tehniska Universitate - Riga, Latvia
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Riga Technical University - Riga, Latvia
Certifications
BCS Foundation Usability and UX Foundation
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Vue
Tools
Git
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, CoffeeScript, Kotlin, CSS, Java, Swift, PHP, HTML
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Angular, GWT
Platforms
Docker, Kubernetes
Storage
PostgreSQL
Other
Software Design, IT Project Management, User Experience (UX), Usability
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