Ilya Sanosyan - Freelance PHP Developer for Hire

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 software.
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.
Advocated wide adoption of best development and operations practices across 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

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-expertentipps/

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.

Languages

PHP, SQL, Bash, JavaScript, Java

Frameworks

Silex, Symfony 2, Jasmine, Symfony, Zend Framework

Libraries/APIs

Doctrine 2, Node.js, jQuery, Underscore.js, RequireJS

Tools

Git, Nginx, Mocha, Shell, Cacti, Jenkins, Nagios

Paradigms

Object-oriented Programming (OOP), DevOps, Scrum, Test-driven Development (TDD), Waterfall Development, Agile Software Development, Kanban

Platforms

Mac OS, Debian Linux, Docker, Ubuntu Linux, Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD

Storage

MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Memcached

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