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Waxbill Technologies
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Head of backend development
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Belgrade, Serbia
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Ilia Lesnykh is listed as Head of backend development at Waxbill Technologies, a with 27 employees, based in Belgrade, Serbia. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Ilia Lesnykh.
Ilia Lesnykh previously worked as Principal Software Developer and Tech Leader at Propeller Ads and Principal Software Developer / Tech Leader at Propeller Ads. Ilia Lesnykh holds Магистр, Информационные Технологии И Программирование from Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет Информационных Технологий, Механики И Оптики (Университет Итмо).
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Hello. I am interested in the TeamLead / Head of Development positions.My CV in english: http://lesnykh.ru/en/cv/
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Waxbill Technologies
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Principal Software Developer And Tech Leader
Principal Software Developer / Tech Leader
Ad exchange network.Development of several Self Service Platforms for different products.Used at work: Jira, PostgreSQL, Git (via GitHub), Symfony, Nginx, PHP FPM, Redis, RabbitMQ, TICK stack, Docker, Tideways.I am trying to drive a lot of changes (technical debt, enhancements, new features, new approaches, etc). UX-oriented and customer-centric. Take ownership of a lot of internal things. Do not wait until I am told what to do – I always have a lot of things to improve or ideas to implement.Main achievements:– CI: phpunit, phpcs, eslint: fix all legacy tests, lead code to PSR-2, add webhooks– Updating Symfony 2.6 -> 2.7 -> 2.8 -> 3.3 -> 3.4 -> 4.4 (now 5.4)– Updating PHP codebase from 5.5 to 7.1 (now 8.3)– Monitoring system with InfluxDB & Grafana– Refactoring legacy code (bring DDD, specification pattern, event sourcing, TDD, CQRS)– Implementing OAuth 2.0 server, Google SSO– Implementing a widely used feature-toggler system on Hackathon– Docker support for local development– Contributing to related open-source projects– Conducted more than 50 interviews– Successfully onboarded a new international team from Poland– Mentoring and internal lecturing host– Attracted international consultants for complicated monolith refactoring (~1 year)– Use Tideways profiler for solving performance issues– Defend against DDoS attacks with real-time steps– Take part in ISO certification, preparing DR processes into another DC
Principal Web Developer
Application in most popular social networks (with standalone application).Work on a large highload project (100 millions users; DAU 2 millions).Work in Monetization department. Development experiments (Split tests, A/B tests).In parallel, develop and support of two projects (social game) were born at our internal Hackathon.Used at work: bugtracker Redmine, OS Ubuntu Linux, DBMS MySQL/PostgreSQL, version control system Git, Nginx, PHP FPM, Redis, Zookeeper, ELK stack, Docker, Ansible.
Apr 2014 - Aug 2016
Remote Web Developer
Tolkotolk.Ru
Remote job from Thailand. Company engaged in the development of advertising management in VKontakte.Advertisement creation UI development.
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Senior Php Developer
Social network with elements dating and games.Work on a large highload project (40 millions users; DAU 2 millions). Work in Core and Advertising departments. Development albums engine, "Boards and Pins" engine, advertising API.Used PHP frameworks: Zend Framework 1.*.Used at work: bugtracker Redmine, OS Ubuntu Linux, DBMS MySQL, version control system Subversion (SVN).
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Senior Web Developer
Webcom Ltd
Renamed previous company.Promoted to senior web developer. In subordination were 2 people.
Mar 2012 - Oct 2012
Web Developer
Itinvest
Company engaged in SMS billing.The creation of numerous small sites, providing content after sending SMS. Also work on a single large project, aggregating statistics from all other small sites.Worked on Agile Scrum methodology.Used PHP frameworks: Zend Framework 1.* and Kohana 3.0.Used at work: bugtracker Redmine, OS Ubuntu Linux, DBMS MySQL, version control systems Subversion (SVN) and Git.
Nov 2010 - Mar 2012
Web Developer
Webdoka
Web studio engaged in the creation and support of sites.Web site development. Support for customer sites. Writing the new features. Drafting TOR.Used PHP frameworks: Zend Framework 1.*.Used CMS: UMI.CMS and 1C Bitrix.Used at work: bugtracker Redmine, OS Windows and Ubuntu Linux, DBMS MySQL, version control system Subversion (SVN).Attending a conference ZFConf 2010.
Jan 2010 - Jul 2010
Senior Php Developer
Becost
The company sells auto parts.Duties: development of web-shop and internal portal. SEO. Interviewing. Preparation of internal documents. Developing the logistics system (wrote a dissertation based on it in 2010). Developing internal bugtracker system called HelpDesk. In subordination was 4 people.Used PHP frameworks: Zend Framework 1.*.Used at work: OS Windows and Gentoo Linux, DBMS MySQL, version control system Subversion (SVN).
Dec 2008 - Dec 2009
Junior Programmer Of W2A System
The company develops warehouse management systems.Duties: developing warehouse system interfaces with XML notation. Creating views for DB.Used at work: OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux, DBMS Oracle, version control system CVS.
Apr 2008 - Aug 2008
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Ilia Lesnykh education
Магистр, Информационные Технологии И Программирование
Выпускник, Английский Язык, Информатика И Экономика
Школа №457
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What company does Ilia Lesnykh work for?
Ilia Lesnykh works for Waxbill Technologies.
What is Ilia Lesnykh's role at Waxbill Technologies?
Ilia Lesnykh is listed as Head of backend development at Waxbill Technologies.
Where is Ilia Lesnykh based?
Ilia Lesnykh is based in Belgrade, Serbia while working with Waxbill Technologies.
What companies has Ilia Lesnykh worked for?
Ilia Lesnykh has worked for Waxbill Technologies, Propeller Ads, Topface, Tolkotolk.Ru, and Fotostrana.Ru.
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Ilia Lesnykh holds Магистр, Информационные Технологии И Программирование from Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет Информационных Технологий, Механики И Оптики (Университет Итмо).
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