* Delivered projects in Online Security, Healthcare and Automation.
* Responsibilities included analysis and takeover of existing codebases, datastore optimization and data analysis.
* Developed versatile search engines on high load systems.
* Published articles on TopTal Engineering Blog.

IT Consultant

* Led a technical team.
* Coached developers and monitored their activities.
* Integrated many technical solutions to automate and control development.
* Developed and planned project architecture.
* Controlled project deliverables.
* Coded the most critical parts of projects.
* Handled conflict management and risk mitigation.

Founder, Consultant

* Took over development of an abandoned API back-end. Refactored the code base and made it maintainable in the long term.
* Developed and integrated a robust configurable API engine for on-demand multi-parameter searches.
* Handled high performance search on real time and historical data.
* Supported scaling the system for being able to handle large amounts of real time traffic.
* Partially re-engineered the data store to handle related data.
* Modernized the codebase by integrating Symfony components into the legacy framework while maintaining the ongoing delivery.
* Brought automated testing into the API development workflow.

Consultant

* Led a technical team of 20+ members.
* Coded the most critical parts of software.
* Handled technical operations and infrastructure.
* Oversaw conflict management and risk mitigation.
* Coached developers and assessed their skills.
* Did pre-sales tech analysis.
* Handled consistency, failover setup, and monitoring.
* Managed resources for customers.
* Advocated wide adoption of best development and operations practices across the company.

Technical Lead, Project Manager / Head of Representative Office

* Handled both code and infrastructure.
* Contributed to the development of a credit card billing processor.
* Contributed to PCI DSS certification of the billing processor.
* Developed architecture and code from scratch for a pay-per-click advertising processor.
* Developed robust, failover, and scalable server structure for PPC advertising system.
* Integrated various monitoring strategies.

Senior Web Developer / DevOps

* Participated in the launch of a startup project.
* Developed an application for peer to peer sales similar to Etsy.
* Integrated job queue API into the infrastructure of the system for delayed handling of large images.

Web Developer

* Managed clients and projects.
* Led a small team of developers and designers.
* Created highly responsive custom interfaces, pushed UX as a primary value.

Team Lead, Developer

* Developed and supported web pages of the company.
* Managed server infrastructure of a non-IT company.
* Administrated web app servers.

Architected, developed and participated in development of multiple projects, including scalable, multi-tenant, high load, secure systems in multiple domains such as: News, Online Marketing and Advertising, Healthcare, Travel, Online Security.

Developed, restructured and maintained numerous data systems. Architected infrastructure and algorithms for scalable persistence, high performance searches and delivery. Took over and enhanced existing data stores. Handled projects for top domains such as: News, Online Marketing and Advertising, Healthcare, Travel, Online Security.

Delivered multiple projects on data sourcing and automation. Created autonomous systems for scraping and analysis of datasets of various scale. 

NOT focused on front-end technologies.

Personal details

Ilya S.

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Work Experience