At this position, I was part of the LiveOps team for the company's main game. Our team was responsible for the uninterrupted operation of core game mechanics and events, as well as the development of new events.Key responsibilities- Supported existing events, ensuring smooth operation of all ongoing game events- Developed new events, designing and implementing new game features- Refactored legacy code to improve and optimize existing codebases- Monitored event performance to track and analyze performance, identifying improvements- Fixed bugs quickly to maintain game quality- Collaborated with QA and support teams to address feedback and issuesTechnologies used included Node.JS, WebSocket, Docker, RabbitMQ, and various in-house tools for event management and monitoring.

Initially, my primary tasks were to establish processes within the development team and build the infrastructure for existing products.Key accomplishments:- Developed transparent processes that allowed the product department to easily track task progress.- Enhanced release predictability.- Increased the development team's bus factor.- Introduced a technical backlog to prioritize and plan technical debt.- Implemented 1:1 meetings within the development team.- Consolidated various services into a single cloud provider.- Configured deployment processes.- Implemented automated code testing.- Created infrastructure for manual testing.- Developed basic monitoring and alerting systems.- Established a backup system, including regular manual backup checks.Technologies used: NodeJS, React, Gatsby, Strapi, Firebase, Next.js, Nest, Playwright, Yandex.Cloud, and Traefik.

Elbrus Coding Bootcamp is an educational product offering intensive courses in JavaScript, covering both backend and frontend. The educational process is split into two important parts: extensive individual and group practical work, and almost daily live coding sessions from mentors, which include comments and answers to students' questions.For me, the job was an opportunity to improve my soft skills in knowledge transfer, group dynamics, and conflict resolution, as well as a break to assess how I want to develop my professional skills in the future.My main responsibilities were:- Conducting live coding sessions with real-time Q&A;- Mentoring students and helping them solve problems;- Creating new and improving existing lectures;- Reviewing and grading students' code.

I developed the My Reports service at SEMrush. My Reports is a reporting system that allows our customers to aggregate data from all SEMrush tools and even from some external data sources like Google Analytics and Google My Business. My Reports enables customers to schedule report building and automatically send it to the emails they provided.During this time, I primarily focused on developing the backend part of the service. The main technologies included NodeJS 12, Express, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Puppeteer, Docker, and Kubernetes.