Vasja V. Email & Phone Number

United States

• Designed an analytics pipeline, including feature-flagging and experimentation, which provided our product team insights into overall platform usage.
• Introduced important automation and tooling such as the OpenAPI spec and JSDoc cut developer onboarding time by 50% and to open our API for external development.
• Utilized modern Agile practices: architectural reviews around new features; post-mortems and retrospectives on completed projects; domain modeling and design documentation for proposed projects. Reduced defect rate by.
• Created a Twilio-powered messaging system and subsequent SMS auth that increased Creator acquisition by over 20% and improved contact signup rates by over 50%.

Greater New York City Area

• Solved the problem of running industry-compliant crypto-backed campaigns, which resulted in Republic’s successful Note sale, and drew in several companies to raise funds on the platform.
• Revamped the entire AWS setup - consolidated the Terraform-based infrastructure, created staging and CI environments, incorporated Ansible, applied cross-region failsafes, created a hands-off deployment pipeline.
• Architected the core platform, creating features like automatic investments, a quest-based gamification system, and integrated with Sendgrid for a proper transactional mailing system.
• Grew to lead a team of four remote engineers in Russia, handling core microservices development. Trained the overall team as it grew from 4 to over 20 developers.

• Devised web services for delivering video content across hundreds of Hearst properties. Rebuilt an ES6 video player which resulted in a 300%+ improvement in content views and over 17M+ additional ad plays across.

• Grew from a beginner engineer into a senior, maintaining and upgrading complex supply chain management software for hundreds of unique clients. Introduced versioning, TDD, and SOLID design principles to improve.