Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

Jul 2018 – Feb 2019 · 7 mos

Aug 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

Jul 2017 – Jun 2018 · 11 mos · Remote

Jul 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs · Hybrid

Feb 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hybrid

• Backend and infrastructure for MMO mobile games. Web API, Java, Spring, XML/JSON, Redis, MySQL, Amazon
• Survived transition to the Java ecosystem, after 9 years in the .NET world

Jan 2010 – Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation · On-site

• Domain-Driven Design & TDD evangelist
• Alternative .NET stack (ALT.NET) evangelist: NHibernate instead of DataAdapters, Castle MonoRail instead of ASP.NET WebForms, Castle Windsor, NServiceBus, NUnit and other community-driven libraries and frameworks
• Convinced the team give Ruby on Rails a try - and we delivered the project on time and with quality!
• Set up CI/CD infrastructure for company projects - no more Visual Studio's "publish to IIS" or manually copying DLLs to server's folders
• Won a few debates with DBAs about where business logic should reside - app layer or stored procedures
• Was designing initial technical solutions for newly started company projects
• Learned iOS development (Objective C) on the go and built a PoC that eventually transformed into one of the top-rated mobile banking applications
• Learned 1C and mastered Excel/VBA on the go - and actually fully automated the only job of the company's client!
• Was in the office at nights or during weekends - helping the team to resolve production incidents and improve the observability of company projects
• Also helped with hiring fellow software engineers

Jun 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation · On-site

• Switched from the mobile Java to the backend .NET/C# ecosystem in no time
• Figured out how exactly ASP.NET WebForms, ViewState and postbacks work
• Successfully sustained mental health while writing and maintaining HTML/JavaScript for IE6
• Learned COM, ActiveX, VBA and MS Excel

Dec 2005 – May 2006 · 5 mos · Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation · On-site

• Joined the company with zero Java experience and successfully blended in from the very first assignments
• Learned J2ME and Doja mobile platforms: learned to code for devices with limited RAM and persistent storage
• Learned the hard way how old mobile platforms were not consistent and not unified: having specific manufacturer/model-related behavior, bugs and crashes. And how to IF-THEN-ELSE them

Jul 2000 – Jun 2004 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• Wrote fun & entertaining articles for regular and special issues of the magazine, on the computer programming topic
• Won a coding competition for the best software application (related to the theme of the magazine)