Volodymyr Gubarkov, Developer in Kiev, Ukraine
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Volodymyr Gubarkov

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Software Developer

Location
Kiev, Ukraine
Toptal Member Since
June 18, 2019

Along with having a skillset in DevOps and superb communication skills, Volodymyr possesses extensive experience in full-stack development as a software engineer, tech lead, and solution architect. He's worked in the field since 2005 for successful startups and big enterprises. Volodymyr typically develops the back end on Java and Node.js and the front end on React, Angular, and Vue.js.

Portfolio

CML Team Ltd
Flutter, Solidity, Ethereum, Apache Tomcat, New Relic, ELK (Elastic Stack)...
CryptoTax.io
Amazon Web Services (AWS), ELK (Elastic Stack), Flutter, PostgreSQL, React...
PartyBunny Chatbot
IBM Watson, Facebook Open Graph API, Facebook Messenger API, Spring Boot, Java

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

GitLab, Mercurial, Git, IntelliJ IDEA, Linux Mint

The most amazing...

...things I've done was as a developer made a crucial impact on a startup’s success which disrupted the hospitality industry and raised $40 million.

Work Experience

CTO

2016 - PRESENT
CML Team Ltd
  • Established the company's technology vision, strategies, and growth plans.
  • Defined the hiring strategy and practices. Interviewed candidates.
  • Established an engineering roadmap for the company and ensured it could sustain its business plans.
  • Introduced development practices and standards. Set up supervising and quality assurance processes.
  • Mentored engineers to support their career development plans.
  • Spearheaded multiple clients' projects as a software consultant.
Technologies: Flutter, Solidity, Ethereum, Apache Tomcat, New Relic, ELK (Elastic Stack), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Angular, Vue, React, Node.js, Hibernate, Spring, Spring Boot, Java

Tech Lead

2018 - 2020
CryptoTax.io
  • Provided the client with a full-functional back-end engine, smoothly integrated with rich front-end endpoints.
  • Implemented features including tax report fees calculation for different operations (trades, deposits, withdrawals) and coverage of the most frequent crypto assets use cases (stacking, lending, ICO, hard-fork).
  • Ensured that the first release of the production application went smoothly.
  • Developed several new features for the client and maintained the production application and infrastructure.
  • Built a mobile app on the Flutter framework, which is currently at the testing stage.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ELK (Elastic Stack), Flutter, PostgreSQL, React, Spring Boot, Java

Tech Lead

2016 - 2018
PartyBunny Chatbot
  • Built a solution that allows one to gather events from all sources in one place.
  • Implemented automatic actions (event addition, update, deactivation, de-duplication) as well as manual editing/adding by the event manager.
  • Integrated different NLP third-party engines such as IBM Watson API and Alexa Skills Kit.
  • Participated with a sales team in presenting this product at StepConference in Dubai.
  • Led and mentored other developers on the project.
Technologies: IBM Watson, Facebook Open Graph API, Facebook Messenger API, Spring Boot, Java

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead

2013 - 2017
ALICE Platform
  • Implemented a user web interface based on AngularJS and RESTful services and the server back-end logic (Grails controllers/services). Developed a mob app using Ionic and image manipulation functionality (uploading, resizing, storing, serving).
  • Designed the database structure, optimized SQL queries, and tuned the database set up and caching.
  • Implemented integrations with dozens of third-party systems like PMS, Twilio, HotSOS, bttn, ExaVault, IMAP, Mixpanel, New Relic, etc.
  • Implemented a microservice for PDF printing and image processing functionality.
  • Developed advanced centralized systems logging based on the ELK stack.
  • Created a full-text search subsystem based on Elasticsearch cloud.
  • Optimized system performance (Groovy, Java, SQL). Worked closely with the DevOps team.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mixpanel, Twilio, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, MySQL, New Relic, ELK (Elastic Stack), Ionic, AngularJS, Grails, Groovy, Java

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead

2006 - 2017
Starpoint Solutions
  • Worked on a number of Starpoint Solutions clients' projects.
  • Started as a software engineer and eventually reached the tech lead position with mission-critical responsibilities.
  • Led and mentored other developers on various projects.
  • Promoted best practices of code review and pair-programming processes.
  • Helped the pre-sales teams with estimates and project evaluations.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bamboo, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, ELK (Elastic Stack), New Relic, Groovy, Grails, Angular, XPath, Swing, Web, Jetty, Apache Tomcat, jQuery, Bootstrap, Apache FOP, Spring, Apache Maven, Java

ALICE Platform

http://www.aliceplatform.com
About the Project:
• ALICE is a mobile-first global hospitality operations platform that is re-inventing how businesses can use cloud technology to improve their customer service.
• In an industry of fragmented solutions, ALICE provides a streamlined platform to serve the needs of staff, guests, and management in one front-of-house and back-of-house system.
• It is a US-based company that offers a cloud hotel concierge service for more than 2,000 hotels around the globe.

Work Done:
• Did the core development of the ALICE platform.
• Worked there from the beginning until the startup passed the Series B stage with $40 million in investment raised.

A Review of My Work From the ALICE Platform Founders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSFYYhJ83g
I was one of the first and core developers of the ALICE platform from the startup's early days. I was proud of my contribution to the company's success in disrupting the hospitality space and raising over $40 million in investments.

CryptoTax.io

http://www.cryptotax.io
About the Project:
• CryptoTax.io is a Munich-based startup offering a sophisticated taxation platform for crypto investors and crypto traders.
• It is a B2C web and mobile solution that will ease the process of tax reports for crypto-asset holders and traders.
• It is a complex system that allows a user to aggregate their trading data from multiple accounts on multiple exchanges and create tax reports according to the laws of Germany and Switzerland.

Party Bunny Chatbot

https://m.me/partybunny
About the Project:
• Party Bunny is a Facebook chatbot: a platform for managing entertainment events.
• It provides the list of the parties and geolocation for tonight, tomorrow, and the whole week ahead.
• Currently, Party Bunny has a nightlife calendar for Dubai and Bangkok.

Work Done:
• Provided a solution to gather all events from all sources in one place.
• Enabled automatic functions (event addition, update, deactivation, de-duplication) and manual editing/adding by the event manager.
• Developed a solution that provides a list of events with special offers, a detailed description, source links, geolocation, and offers the ability to call the venue right away.

Digital Archive for Yale University Press

https://www.stalindigitalarchive.com/
About the Project:
• Designed and developed a social-educational website to provide access to Stalin Digital Archive's corpus to students and other interested parties (through subscriptions).
• Dealt with the archive appropriately as it consisted of a large number of XML files with data (digitized books, letters, and so on) along with the metadata and many images.
• Enabled user-friendly access to all of this information through the Stalin Digital Archive website. Users needed the ability to navigate, search, discuss, bookmark, and go through all documents in the archive.
• Implemented the front end on top of PHP and Drupal CMS as many custom Drupal modules.
• Created a Java web start application for importing (synchronizing) archive content to the site database.

IBRF ProtoTracker | Medical App

During this project, I designed and implemented a web-based medical app for tracking clinical treatment protocol data for the IBRF-US organization dealing with the treatment of brain diseases or injuries.

InstiHire | Salesforce Automation Platform

https://ih-devops.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Work Done:
• Developed and maintained a web-based contact-management system for Salesforce automation based on Java technologies.
• Implemented a number of user web interface screens on the Ext JavaScript framework.
• Designed the database structure, optimized SQL queries, and tuned the database set up and caching.
• Deployed the application logic using Spring Framework.
• Integrated the application with MS Exchange Server.
• Built the full-text-search functions of the system based on the Apache Lucene library.
• Unit-tested the application code.
• Participated in migrating the application from SQL Server to a PostgreSQL database.

Westcon | eCommerce Website

https://www.westconcomstor.com/
During the project, I participated in developing and maintaining Westcon company's eCommerce websites. This included new feature implementation, database administration, and data import/export.

Technologies: ASP.NET Framework, MS SQL Server, Microsoft Commerce Server.

Languages

Java 8, Java 9, Java 10, Java 11, JavaScript, Groovy, Java SE, Bash, TypeScript, Solidity, Java, XPath, Google Apps Script, Python, Go, PHP, XML, C#

Frameworks

Spring Boot, Redux, Spring, AngularJS, Grails, Hibernate, Angular, Ionic, Bootstrap, Swing, Flutter, ASP.NET

Libraries/APIs

React, RxJS, jQuery, Facebook Messenger API, Node.js, Vue, Facebook Open Graph API

Tools

Git, IntelliJ IDEA, ELK (Elastic Stack), Kibana, Bamboo, Apache Tomcat, Jetty, RabbitMQ, Rundeck, Mercurial, GitLab, Apache Maven, IBM Watson, Actions on Google, JVisualVM, Sencha UI

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Concurrent Programming, DevOps, ETL, REST

Platforms

Linux Mint, DigitalOcean, Ethereum, Twilio, Mixpanel, Amazon Alexa, New Relic, Rackspace, Web, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, Redshift, Sphinx Search Engine, MongoDB, SQL Server 2008

Other

WebSockets, RESTful Services, AWS DevOps, Telegram Bots, WebLogic, Ethereum Smart Contracts, Apache FOP, GlassFish, CI/CD Pipelines, Web Scraping

2002 - 2008

Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Dolgoprudny, Russia

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