Ilya Sanosyan

Prague, Czech Republic

Member since April 25, 2013

Ilya is a web architect and programmer with over 10 years of experience. He's also an experienced *NIX administrator, and he has been responsible for high load projects--including one of Alexa's top three by category: The Huffington Post.

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Portfolio

Awesome Roots
PHP, JavaScript, C
InQuest
MySQL, Sphinx, CentOS, PHP, Symfony
QArea
PHP, JavaScript, Java, Symphony

Experience

PHP, 10 years
Linux, 10 years
Nginx, 7 years
DevOps, 7 years
JavaScript, 6 years
Symfony2, 5 years
NoSQL, 5 years
Docker, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac OS X for work, Linux/FreeBSD for projects

The most amazing...

...thing I've built as an architect was an advertising pay per click platform handling millions of clicks daily.

Employment

Founder, Consultant
Awesome Roots
2013 - PRESENT
- Led a technical team.
- Coached developers and monitored their activities.
- Integrated many technical solutions to automate and control development.
- Developed and planned project architecture.
- Controlled project deliverables.
- Coded the most critical parts of projects.
- Handled conflict management and risk mitigation.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, C
Consultant
InQuest
2013 - 2017
- Took over development of an abandoned API back-end. Refactored the code base and made it maintainable in the long term.
- Developed and integrated a robust configurable API engine for on-demand multi-parameter searches.
- Handled high performance search on real time and historical data.
- Supported scaling the system for being able to handle large amounts of real time traffic. Partially re-engineered the data store to handle related data.
- Modernized the codebase by integrating Symfony components into the legacy framework while maintaining the ongoing delivery.
- Brought automated testing into the API development workflow.
Technologies: MySQL, Sphinx, CentOS, PHP, Symfony
Technical Lead, Project Manager
QArea
2011 - 2013
- Led a technical team of 20+ members.
- Coded the most critical parts of the system.
- Handled technical operations and infrastructure.
- Oversaw conflict management and risk mitigation.
- Coached developers and assessed their skills.
- Did pre-sales tech analysis.
- Handled consistency, failover setup, and monitoring.
- Managed resources for customers.
- Forced adopting Symfony 2 for wide use within the company.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Java, Symphony
Senior Web Developer, Editorial JavaScript Team Member
The Huffington Post
2012 - 2012
- Migrated the whole codebase from PHP 5.2 to 5.3 and further.
- Developed tools for editors in JavaScript.
- Created tools for manipulating images.
- Participated in operations and development of monitoring tools.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Shell
Senior Web Developer/DevOps
Alice, Inc.
2010 - 2011
- Handled both code and infrastructure.
- Contributed to the development of a credit card billing processor.
- Contributed to PCI DSS certification of the billing processor.
- Developed architecture and code from scratch for a pay-per-click advertising processor.
- Developed robust, failover, and scalable server structure for PPC system.
- Integrated various monitoring strategies.
- Used Ext JS, Zend Framework, plain PHP, FreeBSD, Nginx, Cacti, Nagios for various parts of the systems.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Shell
Web Developer
Catalyst Apps
2010 - 2010
- Participated in the launch of a startup project.
- Developed an application for peer to peer sales similar to Etsy.
- Integrated job queue API into the infrastructure of the system for delayed handling of large images.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Symfony, Prototype
Team Lead, Developer
Satura
2008 - 2010
- Led a small team of developers and designers.
- Managed clients and projects.
- Created highly responsive custom interfaces.
- Pushed UX as a primary value.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP
Web Developer
Elpro-M, EASTEL
2006 - 2008
- Developed and supported sites of the company.
- Managed server infrastructure of a non-IT company.
- Administrated web app servers.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript

Experience

InQuest (Development)
InQuest offers an on-premise network-based security solution that inspects application content over the most commonly used network protocols and performs deep file inspection (DFI) capable of detecting malware as it passes through traditional security defenses.
The Huffington Post (Development)
http://huffingtonpost.com
Third largest news site in the world according to Alexa.
TUI Travel Experts B2B Community (Development)
http://www.tui.com/reise-experten/
A travel experts community held by a large European tour operator.
NVIDIA E-learning System (Development)
An online education system similar to Coursera platform. Was designed and developed for nVidia's course on CUDA programming.
IONBill (Development)
PCI DSS certified credit card billing processor.
Best PPC Ever (Development)
Pay-per-click advertising processor.
Getting the Most Out of Your PHP Log Files: A Practical Guide (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/php/getting-the-most-out-of-your-log-files-a-practical-guide
Log files may very well be one of the most underestimated and underutilized tools at a developer's disposal. Beyond their value for debugging, with a bit of creativity and forethought, logs files can be leveraged to serve as a valuable source of usage information and analytics. In this article, In this article, Toptal engineer Ilya Sanosyan provides a practical guide to maximizing the value we get from our logs.
Buggy PHP Code: The 10 Most Common Mistakes PHP Developers Make (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/php/10-most-common-mistakes-php-programmers-make
PHP makes it relatively easy to build a web-based system, which is much of the reason for its popularity. But its ease of use notwithstanding, PHP has evolved into quite a sophisticated language, with many nuances and subtleties that can bite developers, leading to hours of hair-pulling debugging. This article highlights ten of the more common mistakes that PHP developers need to beware of.

Skills

Languages
SQL, PHP, JavaScript, Java
Frameworks
Silex, Symfony2, Flight, Symfony, Jasmine, Mocha, CakePHP, Zend, Zend Framework 2
Libraries/APIs
Doctrine 2, RequireJS, Node.js, jQuery, Underscore.js
Tools
Git, Nginx, Shell, Cacti, Nagios, Jenkins
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), DevOps, Agile Software Development, Scrum, Waterfall development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Kanban
Platforms
Mac OS X, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Docker, Linux, FreeBSD, CentOS
Storage
MySQL, Redis, NoSQL, Memcached
Misc
GNU

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science
National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute' - Kharkiv, Ukraine
2012 - 2013
Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Computer Science
Kharkiv National University - Kharkiv, Ukraine
2006 - 2008

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