Alex Popov
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Aris Karidis
Alex is an excellent developer, with expert knowledge of architectural principles and with very good understanding of programming & design concepts. He sees the bigger picture and can think in a conceptual way, beyond the immediate scope of a project. He has vast experience across different industries and has built large, scalable systems. He is an excellent manager, a likeable individual and very easy to work with. We worked together several times and Alex has always excelled at his job. It's always a pleasure working with him.
Elias Nichupienko
We've been working with Alex together on several projects. Alex was working on the development side, and my company has developed the infra for the application Alex's team developed. Alex is very communicative, responsible, and knows what he wants from infrastructure.
Aris Karidis
Alex is an excellent developer, with expert knowledge of architectural principles and with very good understanding of programming & design concepts. He sees the bigger picture and can think in a conceptual way, beyond the immediate scope of a project. He has vast experience across different industries and has built large, scalable systems. He is an excellent manager, a likeable individual and very easy to work with. We worked together several times and Alex has always excelled at his job. It's always a pleasure working with him.
Elias Nichupienko
We've been working with Alex together on several projects. Alex was working on the development side, and my company has developed the infra for the application Alex's team developed. Alex is very communicative, responsible, and knows what he wants from infrastructure.
Aris Karidis
Alex is an excellent developer, with expert knowledge of architectural principles and with very good understanding of programming & design concepts. He sees the bigger picture and can think in a conceptual way, beyond the immediate scope of a project. He has vast experience across different industries and has built large, scalable systems. He is an excellent manager, a likeable individual and very easy to work with. We worked together several times and Alex has always excelled at his job. It's always a pleasure working with him.
Elias Nichupienko
We've been working with Alex together on several projects. Alex was working on the development side, and my company has developed the infra for the application Alex's team developed. Alex is very communicative, responsible, and knows what he wants from infrastructure.
Aris Karidis
Alex is an excellent developer, with expert knowledge of architectural principles and with very good understanding of programming & design concepts. He sees the bigger picture and can think in a conceptual way, beyond the immediate scope of a project. He has vast experience across different industries and has built large, scalable systems. He is an excellent manager, a likeable individual and very easy to work with. We worked together several times and Alex has always excelled at his job. It's always a pleasure working with him.
Elias Nichupienko
We've been working with Alex together on several projects. Alex was working on the development side, and my company has developed the infra for the application Alex's team developed. Alex is very communicative, responsible, and knows what he wants from infrastructure.
Credentials
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Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
SalesforceDec, 2019- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Vendigo
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of IT
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Mar 2020 - Present
Vendigo is a venture-backed point-of-sale financing platform that connects consumers, merchants, and lenders within the home improvement sector.As a Head of IT I'm responsible for a few areas:Management:- Setup a technical strategy for the company- Communication with stakeholders, creating technical requirements for new features, gathering feedbacks, requests, prioritization, time estimation, preparing \ updating documentation- Establishing processes inside the team (code review, internal communication, planning)- Present technical side on meetings with clients- Interviewing- Responsible for ramping up \ knowledge sharing with newcomersDevelopment:- Planning, prioritization, development plan, estimations, architecture decisions- Release: responsible for releases to production environments- Security requirements for the DevOps team- Cloud related solutions (AWS, DevOps pipelines)
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ApexTech
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Team Lead / Tech Lead
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Aug 2017 - Present
Senior Team Lead / Tech Lead on many projects using different tech stacks.Responsibilities:- Requirements clarifications, decomposition, architecture design- New features implementation and delivery (backend)- Live project maintenance, bug fixes- Code, solutions reviews, refactoring- Estimation sessions- Driving development, project team leading, budget questions handling- InterviewingTechnologies:.Net Core, Web API, Salesforce, SQL Server, AWS SDK, Kubernetes, DockerPHP, Yii2, Laravel, MySql, RedisJava 8, Spring Boot, Akka, PostgreSql, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka ConnectorsGolang, GCP
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Senior Software Engineer
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Oct 2012 - Aug 2017
My responsibilities included contributing on each step of product development: - Requirement analysis and refinement- Implementation, code review, unit test development- Testing- Maintaining CI/CD pipelines, - Planning and setup of AWS cloud environment - Deployment routinesI have also assumed Scrum Master responsibilities and drove establishing and continuous improvement of our agile process, which resulted in higher team engagement, faster development loop and higher quality. Served as a member of the recruitment panel and took an active part in innovation of our Quality Assurance process.Technologies: .Net, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, Web.API, REST, SQL Server, PHP, YII2, MySQL, VueJs, Docker, AWS, CI/CD
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Software Engineer
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Sep 2008 - Oct 2012
Backend developer in cross functional team following Scrum methodology. - Participated in all agile ceremonies- Implemented new features, maintained existing and investigated parts of the application to solve business problems- Performed testing and debuggingTechnologies: .Net, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, REST, SQL Server
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Education
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2000 - 2006
National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
Master's degree
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