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Alexey Filatov
Verified Expert in Engineering
API Developer
Alexey has been working as a contractor for corporate America for more than seven years. He has been able to thrive in complex scenarios, such as being the sole developer of a startup—building a product from the ground up with the CEO—or rescuing projects that were considered hopeless due to a previous developer's failure. Alexey's main specialization is building complex web services on AWS using Node.js or PHP/Laravel.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ngrok, Bash, GitHub, Linux, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Node.js, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), New Relic, Back-end Development, Back-end
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is M.io, an application that lets users send messages across chat platforms—for example, from Slack to Microsoft Teams.
Work Experience
Software Engineer (Contract)
Channeled
- Built the AWS infrastructure and 1st version of the app from scratch, working directly with the company owner. I was the first developer on the team.
- Developed integrations with other 3rd-party services: Zendesk, Salesforce, Hubspot, Jira, and many others.
- Implemented many complex features, such as real-time bi-directional synchronization of messages and tasks between two systems, mirroring a Slack thread to Zendesk as a ticket.
- Maintained and supported all services daily as a single DevOps engineer.
Software Engineer
M.io
- Contributed to an app that sends messages across three chat platforms: Slack, Webex Teams, and Microsoft Teams.
- Implemented messages and files receiving logic using webhooks and events subscription.
- Implemented messages and files sending logic using platform API calls.
- Implemented an asynchronous long-polling service for receiving chat events using ReactPHP. Made it multi-threaded using various concurrent and parallel programming techniques.
- Helped front-end developers with Vue apps and other JavaScript, HTML, and CSS tasks.
- Implemented app analytics, designed a lot of complex database queries, and performed optimization and caching.
Software Engineer
Message.io, Inc.
- Worked on an app that translates chatbots across various platforms, including Slack, Webex Teams, Microsoft Teams, WeChat, Line, Kik, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and Hipchat.
- Implemented a Slack client for Gmail (all emails are posted to a specific Slack channel).
- Implemented and maintained several chatbots for the app.
- Helped front-end developers fetch, send, and delete data using AngularJS.
- Built a lot of functional and unit tests using Codeception.
Lead PHP Developer
Artwell
- Created over 20 websites and enterprise portals for Russian government organizations.
- Worked within very tight deadlines typical of government projects (e.g., Opmo.mosreg.ru, created from scratch over a weekend).
- Managed and merged junior developers and performed thousands of extensive code reviews.
Back-end Web Developer
Nival Network
- Created a forum for the game Prime World (en.playpw.com/forum/; 350,000+ users).
- Supported and refined a web service for storing data from social networks.
- Built a shared authentication system between the website (en.playpw.com), the forum (en.playpw.com/forum/), and the helpdesk (support.en.playpw.com) of the game Prime World.
- Created an intelligence system for gathering and processing data from the game Prime World, landing pages, and game advertising campaigns. It helped measure all KPIs and optimize all steps of the buying cycle.
- Supported all steps of the release process: administered a continuous integration server (TeamCity), created many build scenarios using Nant, and administered and managed SVN repositories (including merge requests, conflict resolution, etc.).
Full-stack Web Developer
Extyl-pro
- Created over 30 websites on the LAMP tech stack from scratch.
- Supported the official Russian website of Epson (epson.ru) over the course of seven months.
- Created a catalog search module with many parameters and complex logic behavior for high-load online store Italbazar.ru.
Experience
Channeled
https://www.withchanneled.comI was the first developer on the team working directly with the CEO. I chose the tech stack and built the AWS infrastructure and the 1st version of the app from scratch.
I then focused on DevOps and back-end tasks, implementing a dozen integrations with various 3rd-party services (Zendesk, Salesforce, Hubspot, Jira, etc.) and other complex features.
M.io (Mio)
https://m.ioI was among the first developers on the team. I implemented approximately 20-25% of the product features: integrations with multiple external systems like Slack or MS Teams, billing, back-end logic of the app, etc.
Forum and Web Services for Prime World
Official Website of Epson in Russia
https://epson.ruSkills
Languages
PHP 7, TypeScript, Bash, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Python, HTML5, SCSS, CSS, HTML
Frameworks
Express.js, Laravel, Vanilla JS, Bootstrap, Django, AngularJS
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Node.js, Stripe, Facebook API, React, jQuery, Vue, JSON API
Tools
Amazon ElastiCache, PhpStorm, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Ngrok, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Apache, NGINX, Bitbucket
Paradigms
REST, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), DevOps, Agile Software Development, Scrum, Continuous Integration (CI), Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Linux, New Relic, Docker, WordPress
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, JSON, NoSQL, Redis, Databases, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Other
API Integration, Integration, API Applications, Scraping, Web Crawlers, Linux Server Administration, Back-end Development, Software Engineering, APIs, Software Architecture, AWS DevOps, Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Back-end, Serverless, Server Administration, Front-end Development, eCommerce, Full-stack, Operating Systems, Networking, Gmail, FontAwesome, WebSockets, Payment APIs, Front-end, Algorithms, Data Structures
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics - Moscow, Russia
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
MicroMasters in Software Development
edX
Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.6 Developer
Oracle Corporation
Zend Certified PHP Engineer
Zend Technologies
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