Asaf Shochet

Developed and maintained the main application's administrative management console, both client and server-side.

Client-side: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS. Using React Router for URL navigation support, Redux for state management, Material UI for nice and smooth interface elements.

Server-side: Java8, Spring Boot+MVC (Tomcat based), MongoDB, TestNG.

The application is used regularly by the customers and helps them to manage their account's settings such as name, logo, and colors, manage users, roles, courses, organization hierarchy, see usage reports and more.

Some of the more interesting features developed for the admin are:
* Localization of the user interface.
* Supporting several roles that used the admin, each with slightly different capabilities.
* Support management of the organizational hierarchy tree, and its usage across the system.

As a server-side developer, using Java, MongoDB, and Spring, I was in charge of designing, implementing and testing of applications server-side.

The application enabled users to create engaging educational content, so some of the main capabilities I developed were:
* Version management of the users' ebooks which they created using the application
* Publishing mechanism that created a zip file containing a playable version of the content
* Integrating with 3rd party vendors for authentication purposes
* Optimizing slow processes and profiling the system's behavior

One of the efforts I lead in TimeToKnow, during my time as a team leader and a full stack developer, is the self-service flow. The goal of this effort was to expose the company's platform to small businesses and private tutors, in contrast to the prior approach that targeted only large organizations.

My part in the project was adjusting the system to new requirements that are a must in the self-registration flow, such as:
* Develop an online registration module on the server-side.
* Integrate with a marketing department's mini-sites,
managing the integrating with the marketing website, by exposing APIs in a secure way to be used publicly
* Update system's entities to be user-based instead of organization based (which is suitable for organizations, but not for individuals).
* Integrating with Amazon's services such as Simple Queue Service and Amazon's mailing service.
* Implementing google analytics

As an automation engineer, I took part in creating the test automation infrastructure from day one.

The goal was to have end-to-end tests, that opens a real browser and simulate users, in a way that could give the managers assurance before releasing a new version to the customers.

To do so, we created a testing infrastructure using Java8, Juice, Selenium, TestNG, ExtentReports, Sikuli, and Jenkins (for deployment), so that the test suite (written in Java) will run on a testing environment every time new code is pushed to the application's GitHub repository.

The role included writing most of the tests, maintaining them, integrating to Jenkins, implementing a reports engine and communicating with management to make sure we are always on track.

On my spare time, I write to my programming blog, focusing on things that interest me, and hopefully other people.