Ivan Novak
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solution Architect and Developer
Ivan is a technical founder, principal engineer, and solution architect with 16 years of experience. He has participated in and founded multiple startups and is familiar with the highest highs and lowest lows that owners go through. Recently, he helped grow a startup from a $4 million to $87 million valuation in three years with a successful Series A round. His in-depth understanding and strategic approach has seen him deliver numerous products.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, PhpStorm, Git, Docker, Sublime Text
The most amazing...
...product I've developed is an in-house eCommerce platform that abstracted any merchant provider or billing platform without changing the client-facing API.
Work Experience
Principal Engineer
OnlineMedEd
- Led the implementation of high-fidelity monitoring across five core domain products to prevent customer awareness and target areas for further investment.
- Led the integration and subsequent leveraging of platform-wide analytics serviced through Segment.com to measure how the site is being used, allowing for quantitative experimentation and optimization.
- Led an infrastructure overhaul that improved reliability, scalability, and performance of the five core domain products reducing the ongoing costs by 80%.
- Served as the primary technical liaison throughout raising the Series A investment round.
- Key partner in the organizational transition away from siloed technical knowledge to an agile, full-lifecycle responsibility team structure with an embedded product, design, front-end, back-end, and QA working closely throughout projects.
Web Consultant and Developer
Novak Web Solutions LLC
- Created TechTe.am, a high-touch, 24/7 on-demand, virtually embedded emergency response team specializing in mission-critical operations requiring a high degree of comfort with network and code-level services.
- Created DollarInvoice.com, an invoicing SaaS requiring zero subscription commitments and only charges per invoice sent from the system.
- Created TradeSeeker, an automated financial analysis, micro-trend detection, and position action application based on streaming security, forex, and cryptocurrency data.
- Created BitCozy, a high availability hosting provider for mission-critical online services to offer support and automated provisioning of multi-availability zone hosting clusters.
IT Director
Contemporary VA
- Decreased overhead labor costs associated with billing, human resources, and time management from 47% to 24%.
- Automated 92% of billing processes with the only manual processes being the crediting of customer service credits and/or manual discounts or time on file.
- Developed a platform tailored for scalability, a core factor in revenue doubling in the past two calendar years.
- Created and deployed iPhone and Android mobile apps.
- Automated video workflow processes, cutting labor hours by 40%.
- Assured that the #3 site in the Dominican Republic maintained 100% uptime SLA.
Experience
TechTe.am
https://techte.amBitCozy
https://bitcozy.comSkills
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, Python
Frameworks
Laravel, Vapor
Tools
Git, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, Webpack, AWS ELB, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Ansible, AWS IAM, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Fargate, Jenkins, HelpScout, Google Analytics, Terraform, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), RabbitMQ, Gulp
Platforms
MacOS, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WordPress, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, PagerDuty, AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka, Ubuntu 14.04
Other
Amazon Route 53, Amazon RDS, AWS CodePipeline, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Mentorship, Team Mentoring, Leadership, Ubuntu 16.04
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Vue, Google AdWords, Node.js
Storage
Amazon Aurora, MySQL, Redis, Redis Cache
Paradigms
Management
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
California State University, Northridge - Northridge, California, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Pepperdine University - Malibu, California, USA