Software and solutions for online tourism and rental industries.

- Heading the Technical Services team at Apptus, consisting of First and Second line support, Operations/IT, Technical Specialists and Consultants- Technical specialist consulting on Apptus eSales platform- Responsible for maintaining the Apptus Content platform- Having an expert role, primarily in databases, Linux operations and search-related topics- Software development, mostly in Java, PL/pgSQL, Bash

Heading the development team of Apptus’ Local Search group, which delivers high-performance content acquisition and management solutions to the Local Search and e-Directory industries. Responsibilities include:- Architecturing and managing the Apptus content technology stack, which involves components for web crawling, indexing, machine learning and prediction as well as several advanced web GUIs- Managing an agile team of seven skilled developers- Working with product management and marketing to maintain and evolve the product roadmap- Having an expert role, primarily in databases and search-related topics- General software development, mostly in Java

Self-employed independent consultant, specializing in:- Expert C/C++ software developer- Support and maintenance of existing clients and installations- Large-scale applications combining C/PHP/MySQL/NoSQL- Web crawling, search engines, databases- Email transmission infrastructure- Linux software development and operations- Machine vision, Kinect cameras, Serial interfaces

Architecture and implementation of several large-scale applications and platforms, including:- Entireweb, a highly distributed web-scale crawler-based search engine- ExpiCore intranet/site search platform- SpeedyAds advertising system- Custom MTAs, load balancers, revision control and deployment facilities and many other systems- Data center operations, internal ITMost of my work were in C on Linux, with web-facing components written in C, PHP and MySQL.