Levon Sargsyan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Yerevan, Armenia
Toptal member since June 4, 2022
Levon is a tech manager and experienced developer with around 10 years of professional experience working in companies across a wide range of industries. He managed several remote teams of talented engineers and developed products used by companies like PayPal, American Airlines, and Bank of America, creating success stories for rapidly growing startups. Levon has a solutions-oriented mindset and a proven track record of leading teams in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
Portfolio
Experience
- HTML - 8 years
- JavaScript - 8 years
- CSS - 8 years
- MongoDB - 7 years
- Node.js - 7 years
- Express.js - 7 years
- Meteor - 6 years
- React - 6 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Slack, Meteor, Node.js, React, Express.js, MongoDB
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a microservices system that digitized all Abu Dhabi governmental entities, making them just one click away.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Amplifidor
- Charged with orchestrating the company's technology strategy and managing the IT infrastructure to align with business goals.
- Engaged with stakeholders, managed IT budget, and fostered a culture of continuous improvement and agile response to evolving tech trends.
- Created and managed cross-functional teams to deliver scalable IT solutions and drive the adoption of innovative technologies to optimize processes and enhance productivity.
- Managed the transition from a fully outsourced team to a newly created in-house team, as well as a change in work style (from Kanban to full Scrum).
- Established processes for maintaining best practices in planning, executing, and testing the solutions, bringing a high level of automation to teamwork.
- Created architecture for highly scalable cloud-native system architecture with a strong accent on modularity, performance, and cost efficiency.
Chief Technology Officer
Alienlab LLC
- Hired, trained, and managed technical staff. Created individual learning programs, conducted performance reviews, and built an efficient tech team ready to face significant tech challenges.
- Planned the development of the clients' projects by defining timelines, selecting the tech stack, maximizing the architecture's performance, and cost-optimizing solutions, which resulted in many success stories.
- Created and managed infrastructure tools used in the company that led to an automated, efficient, and reliable day-to-day workflow.
Tech Lead
HGAT
- Volunteered at HGAT as part of Toptal's TopVolunteer program. I served as the tech lead, leading many Toptal talents.
- Created and managed functional teams and set up the guidelines and tech stack based on unique and restricted requirements of the project.
- Created the scalable architecture of the system and adopted strict limitations of requirements.
Lead Software Developer
HealthStaffEd
- Led development team working on the core platform.
- Managed the architectural decisions and shifted to a more scalable infrastructure.
- Adapted the application for new clients adopting it accordingly.
Lead Software Developer
Mindful
- Built a messaging app that allowed call center employees to communicate with customers via SMS.
- Restructured a monolithic application into a distributed system, able to extreme loads by complex scaling methods.
- Developed a pipeline that captures customer interaction and automates communication by recognizing customer intents and scheduling callbacks accordingly.
Senior Software Developer
DarkMatter LLC
- Created specifications for microservices that connected government entities and process data used by 150+ web applications.
- Participated in developing a distributed system architecture intended to digitize every governmental entity interaction in Abu Dhabi.
- Crafted templates to automate the creation of new and secure microservices.
Senior Software Developer
Snappr
- Built an application to analyze users' professional profile photos that specifies the good and bad sides and suggests tips and a proper professional photoshoot.
- Developed an application that also analyzes users' photos but from a dating application perspective.
- Created a photographer booking procedure, which suggests the best fit for each customer depending on their location, needs, and other criteria.
- Implemented a user interaction collection system to generate stats that help Snappr continuously improve the platform.
Experience
Mindful Messaging
https://getmindful.com/Snappr
https://www.snappr.com/HealthStaffEd LMS
https://www.healthstaffed.com.au/LongTailPro
Currencii
Data Migration and Warehouse System for Healthtech Product
Education
Master's Degree in General Medicine
Yerevan State Medical University - Yerevan, Armenia
Bachelor's Degree in General Medicine
Yerevan State Medical University - Yerevan, Armenia
Certifications
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Handlebars, Node.js, jQuery, Stripe API, Stripe, Redis Queue, Socket.IO
Tools
CircleCI, Slack, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Lex, ELK (Elastic Stack), Codeship, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Travis CI, Amazon EKS, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Jira, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Languages
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Less, TypeScript, GraphQL, Sass
Frameworks
Express.js, Serverless Framework, Next.js, Bootstrap, React Native, Ant Design, Tailwind CSS
Paradigms
Microservices Architecture, Agile, API Architecture, Serverless Architecture, Requirements Analysis, Microservices, DevOps, Agile Software Development, Scrum, Lambda Architecture
Platforms
Meteor, Amazon EC2, Docker, AWS Lambda, Galaxy, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, Rancher, Apache Kafka
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, JSON, Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, MySQL, Google Cloud, Redshift, PostgreSQL
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Other
Semantic UI, Atlas, APIs, Front-end, Front-end Development, Full-stack, API Integration, Full-stack Development, Leadership, Architecture, User Interface (UI), Architectural Patterns, SaaS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Separation of Concerns (SoC), Web App Development, Technical Hiring, Training, Technical Project Management, Web Scraping, Lambda Functions, Serverless, Software Architecture, Software Design, Technical Leadership, Chrome Extensions, CTO, Social Media Apps, Cloud Patterns, EventBus, Cloud Architecture, SaaS Design, AWS Cloud Architecture, Vite, ECS, Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, GitHub Actions, Medicine, Medtech, Amazon RDS, xAPI, Stripe Payments, TypeORM, IT Project Management, Forums & Social Networking Portals, Medical Software, Health, Streaming, Mobile App Development, Strapi, Supabase
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