Ilia Burtsev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Yerevan, Armenia
Toptal member since March 11, 2020
Having worked in rapidly growing companies for many years, Ilia has created numerous reliable, flexible, and scalable apps that help businesses evolve and make customers happier. With a demonstrable history of result-oriented ownership and in-depth technical expertise, he delivers the best outcome using best practices. Ilia is a firm believer in continuous self-development and that technology should be supported by engineering culture.
Portfolio
Experience
- Back-end - 13 years
- MySQL - 10 years
- PHP - 10 years
- Docker - 5 years
- PostgreSQL - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- Java - 1 year
- Go - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Unix, IntelliJ IDEA
The most amazing...
...thing I've implemented is the delivery process automation for the biggest eCommerce platform in Southeast Asia, which operates in 10 countries.
Work Experience
Software Engineering Manager
Avito
- Developed distributed, cloud-native applications to collect information about cars by their VIN and produce aggregated reports to the users.
- Developed sources classified tool for automatic monitoring and documentation building.
- Reduced time to react to partner's systems failures. The team observed external systems' behavior and reacted up to three times faster.
Back-end PHP Developer
Azrieli Ecommerce Ltd.
- Developed custom scalable software solutions to support client business processes and flows.
- Integrated and customized third-party services to meet specific business requirements and improve the user experience.
- Collaborated with team members to establish and maintain coding standards and best practices, ensuring consistent and high-quality code across all projects.
- Researched and implemented new development best practices.
Software Team Lead
Lazada
- Led new system development to automate the last-mile delivery process.
- Oversaw the whole development, requirement clarification, architecture, decomposition, deployment, and maintenance.
- Introduced a GitFlow process to the team and created tools to make the release process easier, which significantly decreased the time to integrate new features in a codebase.
- Evangelized splitting a monolithic application to microservices using the DDD methodology.
Software Team Lead
Lamoda
- Designed and launched a service to determine payment methods available for the customers, which served 3,000 RPS.
- Created and launched a real-time application to process refunds for online payments.
- Prepared and transitioned the application to a Docker infrastructure with zero downtime.
- Successfully applied DDD methodology for system design and development.
- Improved automation testing for a legacy project, which dramatically reduced the time to pass a sanity test.
Senior Software Engineer
ADV/web-engineering co
- Developed and launched the first-in-Russia online system to sell car insurance policies. The system was integrated with government services to obtain data on drivers and cars used to calculate the cost of insurance.
- Created eCommerce applications for the biggest retail companies in Russia.
- Audited projects made in other companies, researched bottlenecks, and created plans to redesign the project architecture.
Experience
Lazada e-Logistic
Education
Specialist's Degree in Computer Science
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University) - Moscow, Russia
Certifications
Leadership Fundamentals
Lazada Group
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Doctrine, API Development, React
Tools
Bitbucket, Jira, RabbitMQ, Bamboo, PhpStorm, Git, TeamCity, IntelliJ IDEA, ELK (Elastic Stack), NGINX, Akeneo
Languages
PHP, Go, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java
Frameworks
Symfony, Spring, PHPUnit, Sylius
Paradigms
Microservices, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Microservices Architecture, REST, Unit Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), Dependency Injection, Agile Software Development, E2E Testing
Platforms
Cloud Native, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Unix, Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch
Other
eCommerce, Architecture, Back-end, Web Development, Performance, Optimization, Logistics, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Nomad, Prometheus, Software Development, People Management, APIs, High-load
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