Vitaly Spirin, Developer in Montreal, QC, Canada
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Vitaly Spirin

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Bio

Vitaly is a PHP developer who enjoys delivering structured, efficient, well-tested code that is easy to maintain. In every company he has worked for, he brought the technical stack to a new level, decreasing project costs by several times. Vitaly likes learning (and applying) new technology and staying up to date.

Portfolio

My Yoga Online
CSS, Code Coverage, QUnit, Test-driven Development (TDD), MySQL, Vagrant...
Prizm Media, Inc.
CSS, Code Coverage, Xdebug, Test-driven Development (TDD), SimpleTest...

Experience

PHP - 4 yearsTest-driven Development (TDD) - 3 yearsMySQL - 3 yearsJavaScript - 3 yearsYii - 2 yearsAngularJS - 1 yearPHPUnit - 1 yearQUnit - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Cloud9

The most amazing...

...library I've written was Simple Active Record, which automatically adds validators based on table schema.

Work Experience

Web Developer

2013 - 2014
My Yoga Online
  • Moved the website from spaghetti code (where SQL queries were right near HTML tags) to ActiveRecord and MVC.
  • Improved the company’s database by introducing relational integrity, domain integrity, and versioning of schema updates.
  • Introduced Test Driven Development using testing frameworks on both server side (SimpleTest) and client side (qUnit).
  • Maintained the company’s website, fixed bugs, and implemented new functionality.
Technologies: CSS, Code Coverage, QUnit, Test-driven Development (TDD), MySQL, Vagrant, GitFlow, HTML, JavaScript, PHP

Web Developer

2012 - 2014
Prizm Media, Inc.
  • Architected and developed a website from scratch including database schema, MVC, and HTML/CSS coding.
  • Integrated APIs on front-end (JavaScript): Facebook, GooglePlus, Twitter, Pinterest, and AdSense.
  • Integrated APIs on back-end: Facebook, Groupon, Amazon, and FatSecret.
  • Developed a RESTful API on the server to support an iPhone app.
  • Optimized the production database (indexes, sizing, referential integrity, domain integrity).
Technologies: CSS, Code Coverage, Xdebug, Test-driven Development (TDD), SimpleTest, Subversion (SVN), OAuth, REST, Yii, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP

Festive Health

A website developed from scratch.

Kudofile

Developed a RESTful API on the server.

My Yoga Online

Supported a website.

My Personal Projects

https://github.com/vitalyspirin?tab=repositories
These projects show my code in PHP, JavaScript, and SQL.
2011 - 2012

Associate's Degree in Web Application Software Development

British Columbia Institute of Technology - Vancouver, Canada

2008 - 2008

Associate's Degree in Applied Database Administration and Design

British Columbia Institute of Technology - Vancouver, Canada

Tools

Git, Subversion (SVN), Xdebug, Vagrant

Languages

PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Paradigms

Test-driven Development (TDD), REST

Frameworks

QUnit, Yii, SimpleTest, AngularJS, PHPUnit

Storage

MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

Other

APIs, Cloud9, OAuth, Code Coverage, GitFlow

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