Alex Khomchenko Email & Phone Number

Georgia

New York, Ny, Us

Doing planning, prioritizing, code reviews, release management and holding quarterly presentations across company teams. Continuing doing development work.- Led fully remote team of 7 people. Reduced competency gap by building a competency chart, doing tech talks and team trainings. Eliminated knowledge and skill silos across the team.- In cooperation with management and DevOps, we identified and cleaned up low-usage tooling, AWS resources and services; in total, we could bring application costs down by 50%.- Took initiative to reduce the number of "fix" requests to developers from the integration side. By tightly collaborating with QA, T2 support, and 3party providers, identified and bug-fixed all persistent problems, which reduced developer involvement from once a week to once every few months.- Re-wrote CircleCI flows, which reduced deploy times for development branches by >50%. Working closely with DevOps, we automated most manual work for production deploys.- Documented all access keys across the whole platform and tooling and implemented a whitelist-access approach for access keys, which reduced the attack surface.- Reviewed application for compliance under such categories as architecture, authentication, availability, configuration and key management, data residency, SDLC, etc.- Analyzed feature gaps between Interview platform and other company platforms, implemented analytics collection for feature usage.

New York, Ny, Us

I was hired onto one of companies that OutMatch/Harver bought end-2020 - LaunchPad Recruits.We passed through 3 m&a processes, which brought constant organizational changes.- Developing features for Assessment platform (ex-LaunchPad app) using technologies like: Ruby, React.js, Node.js, AWS Serverless- Implemented support for onsite face-to-face interviews, completing functionality needed for a few institutional clients- Pushed for and removed A LOT of unused application code. This not only eased Rails code navigation but also reduced the attack surface. Cleaned-up Gemfile that reduced deploy times by 10%.- Supporting and extending API integrations services, written in with AWS Serverless stack. Participating in client's onboarding process from technical side, communicating with 3rd party providers.

Walnut Creek, California, Us

In addition to my usual work as software engineer, becoming lead developer on one of the projects implied some additional responsibilities:- Helping PM in managing a team of 5 people- Maintaining project management boards and documentation- Serving as main the bridge in communication between US and Ukrainian parts of development team- Assuring delivered code quality by doing code reviews, task analysis, technical decision making- Doing requirement analysis, finding inconsistencies and proposing changes or improvements- Doing employee review for tech part of the team, interviewing candidates for open positions

Walnut Creek, California, Us

Highlights:- Designed and led engineering on multiple integrations such as Magento (v1 & 2), Facebook Messenger, Salesforce Service Cloud, Shipstation, Gorgias and Zendesk Chat for our client's customer support product, allowing them to make contracts with >25m$ companies.- Built support tickets real-time filtering mechanism for our client's customer support product, which reduced workload for administration staff by 30%.- Designed and built real-time notifications and messaging subsystem for our client's social network product.- As second developer took part in developing back-end service for our client's social network product from estimating at the start to stress testing and production release at the very end, meeting all deadlines and client's expectations.- Took engineering initiative to propose and implement refactoring of 20-steps job pipeline for our marketing system product, which allowed to easily trace and debug errors and increased overall pipeline stability.My duties included:- Software development using such programming languages as Ruby, Python, JS- Using agile practices for product development- Using clean code and XP practices: Unit Testing, TDD, Code Review, Refactoring- Decomposing of requirements and estimating scope of work- Configuring VPS and deploying developed software

Cherkassy, Ua

Planned, implemented and delivered small back-end service for one of company's projects.

Финикс, Аризона, Us

Highlights:- Planned and implemented code refactoring for controller-level code on one of the company's products- Brought up one trainee up to junior-level Ruby developer- Configured VPS on Digitalocean for one of company's productsMy duties included:- Software development: Ruby, Ruby on Rails- Using agile practices for product development

Cherkasy, Ua

My duties included:- Software development: Java Spring, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS- Using clean code and XP practices: Unit Testing, Refactoring, Pair Programming- Using agile practices including Scrum, Planning Poker, Everyday Reports- Planning and holding demo presentations

Cherkasy, Ua

During my trainee period at InterLink I've learnt:- Basics of web development using Java and Spring for back-end and JavaScript and Angular.js for front-end- How agile and specifically scrum process is organized- How to use essential programming tools such as Git, IntellijIDEA

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Junior Unity Developer