Volodymyr Gubarkov

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.