At my company, I've worked on proprietary tools aimed at facilitating software development and high performance web applications for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. We've developed our own technology stack, built from the ground up, that is unparalleled in terms of performance while offering very high developer productivity.

Togedo

As the CTO, I was tasked with overseeing the development of a complex visual web application builder (similar to WebFlow).

I've used React for several large projects and it's my current go-to UI framework. Its clear data flow, composability and diverse ecosystem provide a great development environment. I'm quite excited about some of the newer features like Suspense or Hooks.

Node.js is my go-to platform for both web and console applications. I even developed some desktop solutions in NW.js. I use it for most of my programming projects and I consider myself a Node.js expert.

I've been fascinated by Meteor.js since its early days. I created a comprehensive pagination solution for the framework which is now among the most popular Meteor packages. I've made contributions to the Meteor core (several suggestions for performance improvements) as well as to various widely used Meteor packages.

I created several real-life Meteor applications, including a team performance managament solution and a career support web application for international corporations as well as a mobile game app.

I've been a rigorous supporter of NoSQL databases since they started reaching maturity and quickly became a fan of MongoDB. I used it extensively, mostly as the official Meteor database system.

Some time ago, I used jQuery every day and I consider myself an expert. I authored several jQuery extensions.

I'm quite comfortable with running and managing Linux servers. I configured several multi-instance deployments for my apps in the cloud, featuring load-balancing, auto-scaling, as well as efficient backup, message queueing and maintenance solutions.

PHP was the first server-side language I learned and I've been using it for many years. Although I moved on to other platforms, I still feel some sentiment towards it and writing PHP scripts comes to me as naturally as ever.

I appreciate Python for beautiful syntax and huge following in academic circles. In the recent years, I became excited about machine learning and Python (with frameworks such as Theano) became an invaluable companion in my explorations. In the early days, I created a comprehensive Python web crawling framework.

When performance is paramount, I always develop in C or C++. My most important achievements in those languages include a MonteCarlo simulation framework and a stock analysis application.

I use git for all my projects. I stumbled upon many issues along the way and I should be able to help with typical problems.

I used MySQL extensively in my early projects. I successfully managed moderately large data sets (500GB+).

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